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:1810/302795 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.49870

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.

Congress Antienvironment Campaign Contributions climate change