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Unmasked: The Oil Industry Campaign to Undermine California’s Clean Energy Future
Unmasked: The Oil Industry Campaign to Undermine California’s Clean Energy Future
Millions Spent on Front Groups, Lobbying, and Scare Tactics to Keep Californians Dependent on Oil
-A variety of climate and clean energy measures that are part of California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) are reducing California's oil dependence, transportation costs, and pollution-related health bills. But with the petroleum fuels sector scheduled to begin paying for its portion of climate pollution in January 2015, oil companies have intensified their campaign to undermine the clean energy policies that will reduce their market share.
-NRDC has identified at least eight front groups appearing to be grassroots organizations speaking for consumers or broad coalitions, but they have strong ties to the oil industry. Oil companies such as Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips are working against California's clean energy policies, often through the industry's trade association, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA).
-The oil companies' campaign to maintain their profits and continue California's dependence on petroleum-based fuels has been supported by more than $70 million of oil money spent on lobbying in California since 2009.
-Reversing or delaying the scheduled inclusion of transportation fuels -- which account for nearly 40 percent of California's climate pollution -- under the state's emissions cap, as the oil industry and its front groups advocate, would undermine clean energy progress, keeping Californians more dependent on oil and more vulnerable to roller-coaster gas prices.
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/oil-industry-undermining-california-clean-energy.asp
Millions Spent on Front Groups, Lobbying, and Scare Tactics to Keep Californians Dependent on Oil
-A variety of climate and clean energy measures that are part of California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) are reducing California's oil dependence, transportation costs, and pollution-related health bills. But with the petroleum fuels sector scheduled to begin paying for its portion of climate pollution in January 2015, oil companies have intensified their campaign to undermine the clean energy policies that will reduce their market share.
-NRDC has identified at least eight front groups appearing to be grassroots organizations speaking for consumers or broad coalitions, but they have strong ties to the oil industry. Oil companies such as Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips are working against California's clean energy policies, often through the industry's trade association, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA).
-The oil companies' campaign to maintain their profits and continue California's dependence on petroleum-based fuels has been supported by more than $70 million of oil money spent on lobbying in California since 2009.
-Reversing or delaying the scheduled inclusion of transportation fuels -- which account for nearly 40 percent of California's climate pollution -- under the state's emissions cap, as the oil industry and its front groups advocate, would undermine clean energy progress, keeping Californians more dependent on oil and more vulnerable to roller-coaster gas prices.
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/oil-industry-undermining-california-clean-energy.asp
How can anyone think the US government isn't being controlled by corporations?
