A new report exposes how over 1,500 state-level lobbyists represent fossil fuel companies while working for governments, climate groups, and research organizations fighting the climate crisis.
As F Minus found, the Environmental Defense Action Fund, the advocacy arm of climate group Environmental Defense Fund, employs multiple lobbyists who also advocate for Exxon, as well as fossil gas producers like Calpine and Duke Energy. The Natural Resources Defense Council’s political fund employs a lobbyist for Duke Energy and another lobbyist group that also works for mining and fossil gas company BHP.
“When you hire these insider lobbyists, you are basically working with double agents,” Brown University environmental sociologist Timmons Roberts toldThe findings reveal not just how far the fossil fuel industry has extended its influence over the national energy sphere, but also how covertly it does so.
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