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‘Fossil fuel flunkies’: US senator warns of Big Oil coup, economic reckoning from climate impacts
The loosening of US campaign finance restrictions opened the floodgates to dark money. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In an interview, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island blamed the sweeping rollback of environmental protections on a flood of unlimited, anonymous corporate political spending, and said exposing the scale of this “fraud” is key to breaking its grip. In his second term, the Republican US President has pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement, gutted science agencies, fired researchers and forecasters, scrapped his predecessor Joe Biden’s clean energy tax cuts and rolled back powerplant and vehicle efficiency standards. Senator Whitehouse calls it the oil, coal and gas industry’s “most sordid dreams come true” and says the stage was set by the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United ruling, which unleashed an era of unchecked corporate political spending.
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