Fossil-Fuel Companies Spent More Than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars to Set the Anti-Environment Agenda of the Next Congress

by Gary Kopycinski on December 23, 2014

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Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2014. A new analysis released by the Center for American Progress examines the hundreds of millions of dollars in political spending by the oil, gas, and coal industries in the 2014 midterm election cycle in an attempt to set the pro-fossil-fuel agenda of the next Congress.