1. The Pollution Paradox. Posted on 20th January 2017. Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th January 2017 ... The more polluting a company is, the more money it must spend on politics to ensure it is not regulated out of existence. Campaign finance therefore comes ...
  2. archive.thinkprogress.org

    The oil, gas, and coal industries have spent over $2 billion lobbying Congress since 1999. These three industries combined spent a whopping $543 million on lobbying in 2009 and the first two quarters of 2010. Meanwhile, alternative energy companies spent less than $32 million on lobbying efforts in 2009 and have only spent $14.8 million this year.
  3. pulitzercenter.org

    Jan 14, 2025Read more on the world's largest collection of PFAS documents to date, gathered by the team. Read more. The Investigation. We are 46 journalists in 16 countries, embarking on a pioneering experiment of "expert-reviewed journalism" with 18 international academics and lawyers. Learn more about the team behind the Project. Read more
  4. opensecrets.org

    Feb 15, 2024While environmental groups have spent more on federal lobbying since Biden took office, there remains a big gap between spending by the environmental and energy sectors. The oil and gas industry spent about $128.7 million on lobbying in 2023 alone, while environmental lobbying capped at $30.5 million the same year, according to federal lobbying ...
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  6. mainstream climate change and air pollution science dating back to the late 1990s. $0 $500,000 Company $1,000,000 ... API increased its lobbying budget even more in recent years, disclosing $586,000 in state ... and electricity utility in parts of New York, and has spent $2.6 million lobbying local legislators and regulators in the state since ...
  7. theguardian.com

    Sep 22, 2023The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
  8. foreverpollution.eu

    Dec 2, 2024The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics . For over a year, the Forever Lobbying Project investigated an ongoing orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign by the PFAS industry and its allies, with the aims of watering down an EU proposal to ban "forever chemicals" and shifting the burden of environmental ...
  9. pulitzercenter.org

    Jan 14, 2025How much will it cost? Over the course of their year-long investigation, the 46 journalists of the Forever Lobbying Project, coordinated by Le Monde, came to the conclusion that the massive pollution of Europe by PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances), a large family of chemical substances, the scope of which was revealed in 2023 under the banner of the Forever Pollution Project, calls ...
  10. guardian.pressreader.com

    Sep 23, 2023The Guardian's mapping of air pollution in Europe tells a shocking story. Only 2% of people live in places where the pollution caused by PM2.5s - tiny particles that cause a wide range of diseases - is within the limits. Low-emission zones have been the subject of lurid conspiracy theories, grotesque lies in the media and dark money lobbying
  11. When it comes to money in politics, there is what George Monbiot has identified as the 'Pollution Paradox': The dirtiest companies must spend the most on politics if they are not to be regulated out of existence, so politics comes to be dominated by the dirtiest companies. 41
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