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Oil and gas companies invest in legislators that vote against the environment.

Matthew H Goldberg, Jennifer R Marlon, Xinran Wang, Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/303869 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.50951

Published by: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Abstract

Do campaign contributions from oil and gas companies influence legislators to vote against the environment, or do these companies invest in legislators that have a proven antienvironmental voting record? Using 28 y of campaign contribution data, we find that evidence consistently supports the investment hypothesis: The more a given member of Congress votes against environmental policies, the more contributions they receive from oil and gas companies supporting their reelection.

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