22 Senatorial Climate Whores: Trump Supporters Have Received $10 Million+ In Energy Money In 6 Yrs
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Unmissable behind the elected Republicans stand other interests: the oil, gas and coal industries, which together are some of the most influential donors to Republican candidates.
The big-money supporters got a return on their investment last week, when 22 Republican senators whose campaigns have collected more than $10m in oil, gas and coal money since 2012 sent a letter to the president urging him to withdraw from the Paris deal.
Trump had been said to be on the fence about the deal. Members of his inner circle, including his daughter, were reported to favor staying in. We strongly encourage you to make a clean break from the Paris Agreement, read the letter, drafted by Wyomings John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate committee on environment and public works, and Oklahomas Jim Inhofe, a longtime climate change denier and senior member of that committee. The letter argued that the Paris deal threatened Trumps efforts to rescind the clean power plan, an Obama-era set of regulations and guidelines that include emissions caps and other rules deemed onerous by the fossil fuel industries.
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Donations from oil, gas and coal interests to the signatories of the letter are Open Secrets that seemed ready for a new review. A Guardian survey of Federal Elections Commission data organized by the Center for Responsive Politics found that the industries gave a total of $10,694,284 to the 22 senators over the past three election cycles.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations