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Fracking Lobby ANGA's Tax Forms: Big Bucks to Media Outlets, "Other ALECs"
Read time: 5 minsAmerica's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) - the public relations arm of the oil and gas fracking industry - has released its 2012 Internal Revenue Services (IRS) 990 form, and it's rich...
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Leaked Documents Reveal IRS Concerns, Funding Crisis At Corporate Lobbying...
Read time: 3 minsThe Guardian has published a major investigative piece that once again exposes the scandalous ways of the right wing lobbying group, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Among...
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Documents Reveal ALEC's Looming Attacks on Clean Energy, Fracking Laws,...
Read time: 5 minsThe Guardian has released another must-read piece about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), this time laying bare its anti-environmental agenda for 2014. The paper...
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ALEC's Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Moving Through Florida Legislature
Read time: 7 minsThe American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) model bill for disclosure of chemicals injected into the ground during the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) process is...
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Revealed: How Big Oil Got Expedited Permitting for Fracking on Public Lands...
Read time: 6 minsThe U.S. Senate has voted 89-11 to approve the Defense Authorization Act of 2015, following the December 4 U.S. House of Representatives' 300-119 up-vote and now awaits President...
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Not Just Public Lands: Defense Bill Also Incentivizes Fracked Gas Vehicles
Read time: 5 minsDeSmogBlog recently revealed how Big Oil's lobbyists snuck expedited permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on public lands into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)...
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New Records Show More US Involvement in Mexico Oil, Gas Privatization Efforts...
Read time: 6 minsNew records obtained by DeSmog shed further light on the role the U.S. government has played to help implement the privatization of Mexico's oil and gas industry, opening it up to...
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Meet the Lobbyists and Big Money Interests Pushing to End the Oil Exports Ban
Read time: 7 minsThe ongoing push to lift the ban on exports of U.S.-produced crude oil appears to be coming to a close, with Congress introducing a budget deal with a provision to end the decades-old...
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Fox in Hen House: Online Auctions For Oil and Gas Leases On Public Lands May...
Read time: 8 minsIf the recent past serves as prologue, then online leasing of oil and gas on U.S. federal lands may resemble the proverbial fox guarding the hen house, with one eBay-like company in...
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Pass a Regulation, Repeal Another: House Approves Provision Tied to Koch...
Read time: 7 minsOn January 5, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act of 2017 in a 237-187 vote, a bill pushed for years by Koch...
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Trump Names Industry Lobbyist and Climate Science Denier Mike Catanzaro as...
Read time: 5 minsGreenWire has reported that climate change denier Mike Catanzaro— a lobbyist for oil and gas companies Noble Energy, Devon Energy, Encana Oil and Gas, American Fuel and Petrochemical...
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Congressional Energy and Climate Committees Are Loaded with Ex-Fossil Fuel...
Read time: 8 minsThough the U.S. Congress has been in session for two months, much of the policy action which has taken place since Donald Trump assumed the presidency on January 20 has centered around...
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7 Reasons Why Jeff Flake Is Awful on Climate Change and Energy Justice
Read time: 12 minsThis week, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) made national headlines by dramatically announcing his retirement on the U.S. Senate floor. Flake focused his speech on the erratic behavior of...
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Congressional Committee Members Pushing LNG Exports Bills Have Deep...
Read time: 8 minsLast week the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce held a subcommittee hearing on two bills to expedite permitting for exports of natural gas. Domestic...
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From Hurricane Maria to COVID, Gas Lobbyist-turned-Trump Energy Lawyer Uses...
Read time: 14 minsAmong a string of recent environmental rollbacks, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to vastly narrow the scope of environmental reviews for those applying...
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