A new Sludge analysis finds that Big Oil and fossil fuel industry donors have showered more than $34 million on the super PACs tied to Republican leaders in Congress.
House Democratic leadership groups have given more than a million dollars to the PhRMA-funded Center Forward, which has worked to undermine the Biden administration on drug pricing reforms and more.
The pharma lobby gave more than $16 million in 2022 to advocacy groups, many of them ostensibly “grassroots,” that are battling the Medicare drug price negotiations now underway.
A former key staffer to Manchin's energy committee has taken a job working on energy issues for D.C. lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates.
A coalition of companies like Cargill and Chevron hired new lobbyists as it works to convince policymakers that so-called "renewable natural gas" should get government subsidies.
Manchin added a bill rider in July supporting the fossil fuel industry’s position on a major “clean hydrogen” tax credit after his longtime confidante Larry Puccio was hired to lobby by a gas company seeking the benefits.
Oil and gas companies are deploying revolving door lobbyists to shape tens of billions in tax credits for hydrogen fuel.
Republican lawmakers who wrote bills that were wrapped into the H.R. 1 energy package own stock in Marathon Oil, Chevron, and family-held oil and gas drilling operations.
Tax documents reveal the group Center Forward received a record $18.8 million in 2021 and spent big to back conservative Democrats who bucked their party on drug pricing reforms.
The senator formed a new fundraising vehicle that lets him solicit larger contribution checks.
