139 out of 535 US members of the 117th Congress are climate deniers collecting $61,478,689 in dirty money.

... which comes out to an average of $442,293 per elected official of Congress that denies climate change.

This figure includes all contributions above the Federal Election Commission’s mandated reporting threshold of $200 from management, employees, and political action committees in the fossil fuel industries.

Not included in this data are the many other avenues available to fossil fuel interests to influence campaigns and elected officials....with major oil companies like Valero, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips contributing more than $1 million each to the conservative Senate Leadership Fund.

Furthermore, dangerous denial within Congress is not limited to climate change alone. By this analysis, 82 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and six U.S. senators are both climate deniers and members of the “sedition caucus”—those who denied the certified results of the 2020 general election and therefore supported President Trump’s violent attempt to overturn these democratic results.***

There is also significant overlap between elected officials who deny climate science and elected officials who deny the reality of the pandemic that has sickened millions and claimed the lives of more than half a million Americans in the past year. In fact, as this analysis was being written, one congressman-elect and another congressman who had both cast doubt on the science around climate change died from COVID-19.