Companies with the highest carbon emissions spend
big in government
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report, stating that human influence is an “unequivocal” cause of a warming planet. With the report showing a continual increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, here’s how some gas and oil companies with the highest carbon emissions have been spending their money in government.
Isaiah Poritz is a senior at Emory University where he serves as the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Emory Wheel. This summer, he was an investigative intern at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Tara Suter
Tara Suter is currently a junior majoring in journalism and mass communication at George Washington University. She serves as a staff writer covering student life at GW’s The Hatchet.
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Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change (The New York Times) Those companies are donating overwhelmingly to Republicans. In the 2020 election cycle alone, oil, gas, coal mining and other energy companies gave $46 million to the Republican Party. That’s more than those industries donated to Democrats over the course of the last decade, according to OpenSecrets.
