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Big Oil under pressure for funding key Senators who emboldened the Capitol attacks

Pressure is growing on prominent oil companies, such as Exxon and Chevron, to cut financial ties with key Republican members of Congress who have adopted Trump’s false narrative that the election was somehow stolen.

Rex Tillerson: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable.

Three words sum up Rex Tillerson’s performance yesterday in his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State: Unprepared. Unqualified. Unacceptable

Senate Energy Bill Fails the Climate Test

If a climate test were to be applied to this bill, there’s little doubt it would fail.

Introducing: BigOilTalkingPoints.com

Being the generous souls that we are, we thought we’d save the industry a few million dollars and create a website that can generate their requisite KXL talking points for them! We are proud to introduce: BigOilTalkingPoints.com!

Elections 2014: Amongst the losses, six wins shine

Where we played our game -- a game of communities rising up, of organizing, of using facts to guide us, of running straight at our progressive values and being unashamed of them -- we won. And those wins were beautiful.

Oil money behind Keystone XL Senate bill breaks 20 million dollars

Senators cosponsoring the pro-Keystone XL bill introduced today have received roughly 5 times more in oil industry cash than those who remained off the bill.

Senate Beats Back Fossil Fuel Millions to Confirm Gina McCarthy for EPA

The 40 Senators voting against Gina McCarthy's nomination for EPA Administrator would have voted against anyone who would even consider measures that could affect the fossil fuel industry...thanks to $25 million in dirt energy money.

Pro-Keystone XL Senate bill follows pattern of following the oil money

Once again, a group of Senators, spearheaded by Hoeven and Baucus, has released a new bill to push for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. And, following the clear pattern set by their colleagues, the co-sponsors of this new bill have enjoyed massive contributions from the fossil fuel industry.

Senators send pro-Keystone XL letter, once again drenched with oil money

Only mere days after the biggest rally and march in support of climate action and against the Keystone XL pipeline in US history, another letter has been sent by a group of Senators calling for approval of the troublesome Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. And once again it's clear there's dirty energy money behind it.