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RECORD PROFITS AND RECORD POLLUTERS
The oil and gas industry is one of the largest and most profitable industries in the United States. They achieve their often record-smashing profits by putting the bottom lines of themselves and their shareholders over the health and safety of their consumers, trashing the environment, polluting our air and water, and spilling millions of gallons of oil, sometimes in one spill.
April 23, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Repeal Votes Tracker
A new analysis from Climate Power, the League of Conservation Voters, and Climate Action Campaign finds that in the year since Democrats and President Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Republicans have voted 25 times to repeal the landmark climate and clean energy plan and other provisions of the law. There have been 11 votes on the House floor and 14 votes in committees and subcommittees.
November 6, 2023
MEMO: New Polling on Oil and Gas Accountability
New polling from Data for Progress, Climate Power, and Fossil Free Media finds that voters strongly blame high energy prices on large oil companies and their CEOs, and believe these companies have too much power in government. Yet, voters remain optimistic about a transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy.
November 1, 2023
Climate Power Executive Director Reacts to Polluters Over People Vote
Today’s vote on the GOP’s bad-deal Polluters Over People bill proves that House Republicans are more interested in serving the oil and gas industry than the American people.
March 30, 2023
Herschel Walker’s Top 5 Absurd Climate Statements
"Don’t We Have Enough Trees Around Here?”
December 1, 2022
When it Comes to Energy, Ryan and Vance are Polar Opposites
Ryan Advocates for Corporate Accountability to Lower Consumer Costs, While Vance Backs Big Oil Instead of Ohioans
November 1, 2022
Context for Rising Heating Costs: Energy Company Profits Announced Next Week
WASHINGTON, D.C. – One of the big story lines of the coming weeks and months is sure to be the rising cost of home energy. The context for this reporting is critical to give voters a complete picture of what is happening and why. As temperatures drop around the country, wealthy Big Oil executives are forcing […]
October 20, 2022
Actual Data Destroys GOP Narrative On Energy Production
The United States is producing more energy than ever before, but you wouldn’t know that if you listened to conservative media or political candidates. Republican politicians love to point to the record energy production in 2019 to criticize President Biden, and try to claim that Biden has waged some kind of “war on energy.” The […]
October 18, 2022
Big Oil Reports At Least $116 Billion in Profits for Q2, Demonstrating Need for the Inflation Reduction Act and Placing Target on PA GOP Allies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: August 4, 2022 CONTACT: Meghan Schneider, meghan@climatepower.us Washington, D.C. – The numbers are in and they’re huge. New filings from the oil majors show the industry has raked in record profits at a time when Georgia families were paying skyrocketing gas and energy prices. All told, oil and gas companies reported at least $116 billion in profits […]
August 4, 2022
BREAKING: As Senate Moves on Clean Energy Legislation, Exxon & Chevron Q2 Earnings Show Unprecedented Profiteering, Placing Target on GA GOP Allies
Today, in important context for the politics at play around the Inflation Reduction Act, ExxonMobil and Chevron reported a Q2 profit margin higher than any in their history – a 273% and 247% increase in profits, respectively, over the same period last year. The profits, which totaled $17.5 billion and $11.4 billion, were collected at a time when […]
July 29, 2022