Oil Lobbyist Mary Landrieu’s Foundation Brings Together Members of Congress and Corporate Execs
Her group, which held its first event earlier this year, shares an executive director with a nonprofit funded by ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical to advocate for carbon pricing legislation.
During her time in the Senate, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu was perhaps the oil and gas industry’s strongest ally among the Democrats. Landrieu, who was chosen to be the Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair in 2014, supported construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, favored exporting of crude oil and natural gas, voted to prohibit the regulation of greenhouse gases, and often sided with Republicans on legislation to deregulate aspects of the fossil fuel industry. Her lifetime environmental voting score from the League of Conservation Voters was just 51%.
Like many former members of Congress, Landrieu, who was defeated in 2014 by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), is now a corporate lobbyist.
