More Than Half Of Ted Cruz’s Super PAC Money Comes From Fossil Fuel Sources
More Than Half Of Ted Cruzs Super PAC Money Comes From Fossil Fuel Sources
by Natasha Geiling at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/07/3757233/presidential-candidates-fossil-fuels/
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Fossil fuel interests have funneled more than $100 million into the Republican presidential campaign, according to analysis of Federal Election Committee data compiled by Greenpeace. That total means that about one in every three dollars given to Republican candidates came from someone with financial ties to the fossil fuel industry, and, according to the Guardian, represents an unprecedented investment by the oil and gas industry in the partys future.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Republican perhaps most poised to steal the nomination away from current front-runner Donald Trump, received more than $25 million from fossil fuel interests. The majority of the funds in his super PACs 57 percent came from backers attached to the oil and gas industry.
Cruz is one of the Senates most vocal climate deniers, frequently holding hearings in his role as the chairman of the Senates Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness that question the mainstream consensus on climate change. He has called climate change not science but religion, and frequently cites the misleading claim that satellite data hasnt shown warming for the last 18 years (the long-term, gradual trend in temperature has gone distinctly upwards, and recent satellite data just confirmed that February was the hottest month on record).
Ted Cruzs complete denial of climate change science is perfectly in line with the business interests of his biggest funders, Jesse Coleman, a Greenpeace oil and gas campaigner, told the Guardian. These fossil funders have made denying climate change and ignoring scientists a prerequisite for being a Republican candidate.
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