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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary's Fossil Fuel Bundler/Donor, Heather Podesta, Lobbied Also for Koch Industries!
Just a few of the MANY fossil fuel donations to Hillary:
Hillary Clinton is getting a lot of money from fossil fuel executives and lobbyists acting as bundlers (fundraisers who collect donations) who represent fossil fuel companies. (She also has lobbyist bundlers who represent other environmentally challenged corporations like Monsanto.)
Heres just a partial list of the fossil fuelfriendly bundlers who raised money for Clinton from April through June:
ExxonMobil executive Theresa Mary Fariello raised $21,200. ExxonMobil is the worlds largest oil and gas company, and it has a particularly ugly history of funding climate change denial. It is also eager to exploit oil reserves in delicate regions such as the Arctic, despite its responsibility for the most devastating Arctic oil spill in history.
Brian Wolff, executive vice president at the Edison Electric Institute, a utility company trade association, came up with $26,600. EEI opposes and lobbies against the EPAs Clean Power Plan to limit CO2 emissions from power plants, the centerpiece of President Obamas Climate Action Plan. The power-plant regulations are essential for the U.S. to meet its emission-reduction targets under the Copenhagen Accord and to live up to the promises it is laying out in advance of U.N. negotiations in Paris this December. Clinton has pledged to protect the Clean Power Plan regulations.
Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta have raised $31,150 and $74,575, respectively.
The power ex-couple are big-shot Democratic lobbyists.
Tonys brother John is Clintons campaign chair and former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton. Even though John Podesta is considered a climate hawk, Tony and his ex-wife Heather represent fossil fuel companies.
Heathers recent past clients include Marathon Oil and Bill Kochs Oxbow Carbon, a coal giant, and from 2004 to 2006 she lobbied for Koch Industries.
Tony lobbied for BP in the wake of its disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and through last year he represented Golden Pass, a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that wants to export liquefied natural gas. To be fair, they also work on behalf of renewable fuel companies Tony represents SolarReserve, a solar power company, and Heather lobbies for the ethanol industry. You might call the Podestas the very embodiment of the Obama/Clinton all of the above energy policy.
Scott Parven and Brian Pomper, lobbyists for Chevron, bundled $24,700 and $29,700 for Clinton, respectively. Their work includes opposing the Clean Power Plan controls that Clinton supports, and protecting the tax breaks for oil companies that Clinton has previously called for eliminating.
One of Hillarys top fundraisers, Gordon Giffin, is a former lobbyist for TransCanada, the company pushing to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
Heres just a partial list of the fossil fuelfriendly bundlers who raised money for Clinton from April through June:
ExxonMobil executive Theresa Mary Fariello raised $21,200. ExxonMobil is the worlds largest oil and gas company, and it has a particularly ugly history of funding climate change denial. It is also eager to exploit oil reserves in delicate regions such as the Arctic, despite its responsibility for the most devastating Arctic oil spill in history.
Brian Wolff, executive vice president at the Edison Electric Institute, a utility company trade association, came up with $26,600. EEI opposes and lobbies against the EPAs Clean Power Plan to limit CO2 emissions from power plants, the centerpiece of President Obamas Climate Action Plan. The power-plant regulations are essential for the U.S. to meet its emission-reduction targets under the Copenhagen Accord and to live up to the promises it is laying out in advance of U.N. negotiations in Paris this December. Clinton has pledged to protect the Clean Power Plan regulations.
Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta have raised $31,150 and $74,575, respectively.
The power ex-couple are big-shot Democratic lobbyists.
Tonys brother John is Clintons campaign chair and former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton. Even though John Podesta is considered a climate hawk, Tony and his ex-wife Heather represent fossil fuel companies.
Heathers recent past clients include Marathon Oil and Bill Kochs Oxbow Carbon, a coal giant, and from 2004 to 2006 she lobbied for Koch Industries.
Tony lobbied for BP in the wake of its disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and through last year he represented Golden Pass, a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that wants to export liquefied natural gas. To be fair, they also work on behalf of renewable fuel companies Tony represents SolarReserve, a solar power company, and Heather lobbies for the ethanol industry. You might call the Podestas the very embodiment of the Obama/Clinton all of the above energy policy.
Scott Parven and Brian Pomper, lobbyists for Chevron, bundled $24,700 and $29,700 for Clinton, respectively. Their work includes opposing the Clean Power Plan controls that Clinton supports, and protecting the tax breaks for oil companies that Clinton has previously called for eliminating.
One of Hillarys top fundraisers, Gordon Giffin, is a former lobbyist for TransCanada, the company pushing to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
http://grist.org/climate-energy/hillary-clinton-rakes-in-money-from-fossil-fuel-interests/
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Hillary's Fossil Fuel Bundler/Donor, Heather Podesta, Lobbied Also for Koch Industries! (Original Post)
amborin
Mar 2016
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Yes, Let's follow the money... Actual inbred oil (Koch/BP) relationships, like Hillary's Podesta.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2016
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AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)1. k/r
amborin
(16,631 posts)2. more here:
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)3. Yes, Let's follow the money... Actual inbred oil (Koch/BP) relationships, like Hillary's Podesta.
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Check out the link...
Fracking, KXL, If election, would she do a Chris Christie and let ExxonMobile out of a Climate Change/Pollution settlement?
Hillary Clinton rakes in money from fossil fuel interests
Heres just a partial list of the fossil fuelfriendly bundlers who raised money for Clinton from April through June:
http://grist.org/climate-energy/hillary-clinton-rakes-in-money-from-fossil-fuel-interests/
Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta have raised $31,150 and $74,575, respectively. The power ex-couple are big-shot Democratic lobbyists. Tonys brother John is Clintons campaign chair and former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton. Even though John Podesta is considered a climate hawk, Tony and his ex-wife Heather represent fossil fuel companies. Heathers recent past clients include Marathon Oil and Bill Kochs Oxbow Carbon, a coal giant, and from 2004 to 2006 she lobbied for Koch Industries. Tony lobbied for BP in the wake of its disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and through last year he represented Golden Pass, a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that wants to export liquefied natural gas. To be fair, they also work on behalf of renewable fuel companies Tony represents SolarReserve, a solar power company, and Heather lobbies for the ethanol industry. You might call the Podestas the very embodiment of the Obama/Clinton all of the above energy policy.
But the contrast between her and her opponents is clear, and its indicative of real policy differences. OMalley has laid out a set of strong, detailed proposals to combat climate change. These include not just measures Obama has begun taking, like regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, but ones he hasnt, like adopting zero-tolerance regulation for methane leaks from oil and gas wells and denying new offshore oil leasing permits. Clinton has not endorsed any stances beyond Obamas except for charging more for coal leases.
Hillary Clintons position is stuck in the past, says Jamie Henn, a spokesperson for 350 Action. We have the tools to transition away from fossil fuels. What about all the jobs lost because of climate impacts? We need a president who is willing to make tough decisions about how to transition our economy in the face of climate risk.
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