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2011-05-24

Robin Bravender | May 24, 2011 | Reposted from Politico Oversight committee Republicans led by Issa this week accused the administration of “pursuing an agenda to raise the price Americans pay for energy” in order to advance its renewable energy agenda. It’s been a familiar theme for Republicans — not just Palin — as prices… Read more »

2011-05-24

Today, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform released a 40-page report in an attempt to shift blame for the recent increase in gasoline prices away from Big Oil. Chairman Darrell Issa and his Republican colleagues on the committee took in a grand total of $453,910 dollars from the oil and gas industry during… Read more »

2011-05-19

On Thursday, just days after voting to protect $21 billion in corporate welfare for oil and gas corporations, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) submitted legislation rolling back water, air, and wildlife protections to drilling impacts. A few key facts about oil and gas drilling on public lands: Oil and gas companies have recklessly polluted our air,… Read more »

2011-05-18

Tuesday night’s vote in the Senate was telling. The vote was on a motion to proceed on S. 90, the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act. If the bill had passed, over the next 10 years $21 billion taxpayer dollars would have stopped flowing into Big Oil’s bank accounts. Instead, that money would have been… Read more »

THE BALANCE SHEET: MAY 16, 2011

2011-05-17

Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT CUTTING OIL SUBSIDIES DOES NOT HURT THE CONSUMER ProPublica brought some much needed attention to a Resources for the Future report showing that cutting taxpayer-funded, corporate welfare to Big Oil would only cost the average American… Read more »

2011-05-16

Dana Dolney, the woman many in Pennsylvania know for standing up for her right to be heard at a public meeting, says she is going to run for the Democratic nomination for County Executive in Alleghany County. The Checks and Balances Project posted an interview Dolney gave in April, at a fracking information meeting in… Read more »

2011-05-12

The GOP’s tired defense for shelling out billions of dollars in subsidies to Big Oil is getting some push back this week. Democrats are making the case on Capitol Hill as to why these dirty energy corporations do not need extended welfare from the federal government. Nicholas Kusnetz of ProPublica reports: Most experts agree, however,… Read more »

2011-05-12

Public Campaign Action Fund reports that Sen. Crapo attended a fundraiser hosted by a BP lobbyist just an hour before the Senate Finance Hearing where oil execs, inlcuding BP America CEO Lamar McKary, are set to defend oil subsidies: Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), a member of a Senate committee holding a hearing today on oil… Read more »

2011-05-12

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THE BALANCE SHEET: May 11, 2011

2011-05-11

Our weekly update to unravel the industry and political spin around the energy debate IN CASE YOU MISSED IT BIG OIL CAUCUS FLIP FLOPS ON SUBSIDIES House Republicans blocked a vote to end subsidies on Thursday. Meanwhile, politicians continue to call for spending cuts out of one side of their mouth, while defending $4 billion… Read more »

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