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Money is why Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement
President Trump announced today that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement, a landmark agreement in which 195 countries, representing 95% of the world’s carbon emissions, agreed to voluntarily reduce emissions to control global warming. The US joins Syria and Nicaragua as the only three nations in the world not participating. Nice company.
There is no question why Trump took this course. It has nothing to do with science (or he wouldn’t have taken this action). It has nothing to do with an “America First” foreign policy doctrine.
It’s about money. Continue reading
Posted in Climate change
Tagged campaign contributions, climate change, Paris climate agreement
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Congress is currently very busy doing absolutely nothing about regulating oil and gas
Congress is well paid by the oil and gas industry to do absolutely nothing to protect communities from insufficiently regulated oil and gas drilling. And that’s exactly what they’re busy doing — nothing. Of course, the process of doing nothing … Continue reading
You’ve probably never heard of the Wilks brothers. They’re about to take away your property rights.
Will you be surprised when the Wilkses fund a 2017 legislative effort in Montana to strip local communities of their right to regulate what happens on their own land?
You shouldn’t be. Continue reading
From Washington to Helena, we subsidize the most profitable oil companies with billions of dollars of unnecessary tax breaks and direct subsidies
Oil companies are among the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States, and yet our government gives them billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies, many of these sponsored by elected officials who receive huge contributions from … Continue reading
Posted in Community Organization
Tagged Big Oil, Bobby Jindal, BP, campaign contributions, Christine Kauffman, Conoco, Domestic production activities deduction, ExxonMobil, Intangible drilling costs deduction, John Kasich, Montana Oil and Gas Tax Holiday, Shell, Special percentage depletion allowance, Steve Daines, subsidies, tax exemptions, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Tom Corbett
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