Critics Say Big Oil Would Benefit From Bipartisan Bill's Taxpayer-Funded Cleanup

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Stitt, who received more than $240,000 in campaign donations from the oil and gas sector in 2018, is known for urging the Environmental Protection Agency to strip Indigenous tribes of regulatory authority over their land, and for co-signing a letter urging the Biden administration to resume oil and gas leasing on public lands.
51% : And even though the International Energy Agency and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have both warned that averting catastrophic levels of global warming requires rapidly moving away from fossil fuels, Manchin "is preparing to write the climate portion of the budget bill in a way that would... protect and extend the use of coal and natural gas," the New York Times reported Sunday.

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