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All employ #lobbyists who also work for #FossilFuel companies
The *NEW* Fossil Fuel Lobby List tracks:
>1600 lobbyists working for
>600 fossil fuel companies and
>14,000 non-fossil fuel clients
🧵 #COP27
Conversation
The Fossil Fuel Lobby List list reveals a political landscape in which thousands of companies and organizations being impacted by the #ClimateCrisis continue to hire lobbyists who are promoting further dependence on fossil fuels.
Here are some examples…
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In Utah, the big ski resorts – Park City, Alta and Snowbird – all use lobbyists who work for the fossil fuel industry.
Meanwhile the climate crisis is drying out the Great Salt Lake, what officials call an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’.
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Washington has some of the most beautiful forests in the U.S. but the increased instance of forest fires is affecting health in the capital, especially among children.
Why then do eleven Washington school districts employ lobbyists who work for the fossil fuel industry?
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FL homeowners enjoy great beaches that are threatened from severe storms exacerbated by climate change. Yet lobbyists for insurers also work for fossil fuel interests.
State Farm employs fossil fuel lobbyists in 17 states, followed by Allstate in 11 and Berkshire Hathaway in 10
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“Some of these companies are going to be shocked by the extent to which they are working with fossil fuel lobbyists” - , author of the Fossil Fuel Lobby List
Search the database here fossilfuellobbyists.org
and read the write-up