Commentary Sierra Club: Senate Rejects Effort to End Tax Breaks for Biggest Oil Companies by Gary Kopycinski on March 29, 2012 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2012. Today, a minority of U.S. Senators blocked legislation that would end the costly and unnecessary tax subsidies currently doled out to the nation’s five biggest oil companies.