Billionaire oilman Tim Dunn is financing the far-right Empower Texans – and worker pension funds and university endowments across the U.S. are unwittingly investing in his fossil fuel business operations.
How Private Equity and the Fossil
Fuel Industry are Propping up the
Texas Far Right
Upper-level employees and executives at 14 hedge funds and private equity firms that are propping up the oil and gas industry have made large contributions to eight Democratic White House hopefuls, most who have taken the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge
Top Wall Street leaders who profit off of everything from fossil fuels to widespread austerity are set to hobnob with Mike Pence at a major financial conference.
The fossil fuel industry is already pouring money into the Trump 2020 campaign. But some Democrats are also taking oil and gas donations.
Just days before their CEOs pledged to work for all Americans, a dozen major corporations sent lobbyist to ALEC’s annual retreat to work in secret with lawmakers on bills to promote fossil fuels and bust unions.
Nelson Peltz spurns the Fair Food Program, which ensures better wages and working conditions for farmworkers, even as he oversees billions in worker pension funds.
U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has returned $5,600 in donations to an Enbridge donor after PAI revealed the campaign contributions.
Enbridge-affiliated donors have given to two 2020 candidates: Donald Trump and Amy Klobuchar.
Despite its denials, Enbridge’s Line 3 public relations strategy comes straight out of the fossil fuel industry’s astroturf playbook.
