Energy Companies Continue to Boost Lobbying In 2009
Renewable energy and emissions may have faded somewhat from the national stage to make room for healthcare, but that isn’t stopping energy companies from keeping up intense pressure on congress and Senate. Quarterly disclosure reports coming out now show a wave of spending in the oil industry. Chevron, as we just mentioned in our latest roundup, doubled year-over-year to $6 million, and ConocoPhillips also roughly doubled to $3.3 million dollars. Much of the oil industry spend is showing up in the efforts of the American Petroleum Institute to change the Waxman-Markey bill, including a study it just released yesterday which claims that American refining activities could fall 25 percent by 2030, hurting the economy. The electricity generation industry is also…
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