US biggest climate skeptic receives money from ‘eco-friendly’ BP – report
RT.com
March 23, 2015
One of America’s most powerful opponents of climate change regulation, Senator Jim Inhofe, has been receiving campaign money traced back to oil giant BP, including chief executive Bob Dudley.
The Oklahoma Republican, Jim Inhofe received $10,000 from the BP political action committee (PAC), according to a Guardian exclusive.
PACs in the US are set up to assist US companies and trade unions that can’t give direct support to political candidates, who fit their values and business aspirations. Instead, they pool donations from the companies’ higher-ups and the money is then disbursed by a board.
BP has maintained in the past its “long-established” attitudes towards the problems of climate change, but it’s not uncommon for names of top oil executives to come up when tracing donations made to people who want to kill climate change legislation. Money from Exxon Mobil chief Rex Teillerson has also found its way to Inhofe and others like him on more than one occasion.
After re-election last year, Inhofe became chair of the Senate’s environment and public works committee in January – something that President Barack Obama found “disturbing” in an interview to VICE News later in March. He was criticizing the practice of financing climate change skeptics’ campaigns, saying “there is a lot of money involved.”
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