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F Minus is exposing the extent to which fossil fuel lobbyists also represent people, communities, and businesses being harmed by the climate crisis.
As wildfire smoke threatens much of North America, our new lobbyist list for Canada finds 59 local governments sharing firms with fossil fuel companies, 18 of them using these firms to obtain $$$ to deal with wildfires and other climate problems. Really. www.desmog.com/2026/07/14/a...
A Database of Canada’s Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Some lobby organizations that work for environmental organizations also work for the fossil fuel industry.
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As an unwelcome guest on an airboat junket with lobbyists for data centers, fossil fuels, and forever chemicals, I captured this coyote running a couple of miles inside the Great Salt Lake, because the Lake is now so shallow and dried-out.
🍭 that is potentially ☠️ is the right metaphor for lobbyists who promise 💰 to clean up PFAS, even as they work for 🧪 clients who are responsible for the PFAS crisis. Great piece by @craigtimes.bsky.social floridaphoenix.com/2026/06/25/l...
Lobbyists work for and against Florida governments dealing with PFAS pollution • Florida Phoenix
A couple of millennia ago, when I was in elementary school, the teachers dispatched us kids to sell chocolate bars to support our school. That’s how I learned one of the basic principles of salesmansh...
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F is for false, fantastically false claims by fossil fuel lobbyists in NJ. Time for Essex County, Hudson County, and other local govs to cut ties with these lobbyists, as shown by our new report with @climaterevolution.bsky.social and @makepolluterspay.bsky.social www.tapinto.net/towns/newark...
Polluters Pay Act Faces Final Hurdles as New Jersey Budget Deadline Nears
The Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) held a “Passaic River Cleanup Rally” on Saturday to demand the cleanup of the Passaic River’s lower 8 miles.
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Our new report finds a sick "you break it, you get paid to fix it" dynamic on PFAS in Congress. Lobbyists for chemical companies also get paid to secure PFAS clean-up funds, and paid to secure funding for treatments for cancers linked to PFAS exposure. www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/chem...
Top US lobby firms profit on both sides of the PFAS fight, report finds
Several major US lobby firms that are working for chemical industry interest groups to fight against strict regulation of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water are also representing local gov...
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Terrific Guardian article by Tom Perkins raises the curtain on the twisted, Oz-like deceptions of PFAS lobbyists. Plus coming soon, F Minus report on Congressional PFAS lobbyists, exposing firms getting paid to solve PFAS problems created by their own clients. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Some top US lobbying firms are working both sides of the Pfas issue at the same time
Review from non-profit finds range of scenarios of firms simultaneously lobbying for and against Pfas regulations
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"Climate foundations must go further and divest from fossil fuel and other anti-climate lobbying firms." via Alliance Magazine www.alliancemagazine.org/opinion/why-...
Why do climate philanthropies keep hiring oil and gas lobbyists? - Alliance magazine
Climate foundations must go further and divest from fossil fuel and other anti-climate lobbying firms. The first time I challenged a prominent philanthropist (my grandfather) about his ideas was a dis...
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New report: Bad Chemistry Some of the biggest lobbying firms in the U.S. are working both sides of the PFAS fight — representing chemical companies while also lobbying for hospitals, schools, and public institutions. That’s not a coincidence. It’s a strategy. fminus.org/wp-content/u...
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Our 3-year investigation into shadowy undisclosed lobbying by the American Petroleum Institute and various MD utilities has broken, permanently, the seal on secret lobbying in Maryland. Thanks to @emilyscarr.bsky.social and PIRG for blazing a trail on this ! insideclimatenews.org/news/0203202...
Lobbyist Disclosure Failures Disadvantage Maryland Climate Advocates, According to Audit - Inside Climate News
The opaque system allows industry operatives to shape legislative decisions with little public oversight, a nonprofit research group has found.
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Oregon Business & Industry's Preston Mann has also been lobbying hard behind the scenes to gut campaign finance reform, protecting a system where conflicted lobbyists — and not voters — are the most important voice in the room. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/23/s...
Shut out of campaign finance bill, good governance groups tell lawmakers to vote against it • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Groups said a bill to provide technical tweaks to a 2024 campaign finance reform law now includes changes that make contribution limits moot.
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F Minus@fminus.bsky.social · 5mo agoAttention University of Oregon, your lobbyist Louis De Sitter is at this moment arguing to undermine OR's landmark campaign finance law in the OR Senate Rules Committee on behalf of his client Our Oregon. @uoregon.bsky.social
Attention University of Oregon, your lobbyist Louis De Sitter is at this moment arguing to undermine OR's landmark campaign finance law in the OR Senate Rules Committee on behalf of his client Our Oregon. @uoregon.bsky.social
Reporter’s notebook: Minnesotans’ whistles are a warning and a bellwether for Oregon and the nation oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/19/r... States Newsroom is heroic and this may be their best reporter in any state, or now, multiples states.
Reporter’s notebook: Minnesotans’ whistles are a warning and a bellwether for Oregon and the nation • Oregon Capital Chronicle
A Capital Chronicle reporter goes to Minnesota, where residents have spent months under a federal occupation of immigration agents.
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Dropping our first-ever social media s-bomb over the OR Capitol Club claiming they registered 13 lobbyists to kill a transparency bill because . . . you can't make this shit up. . . because they are so transparent. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/18/b...
Bills are debated, dead or dying as Oregon 2026 legislative session hits midpoint • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The state legislative session that started with more than 260 proposals in early February must end by March 8.
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And yet these and others still share lobbyists with ExxonMobil: Bard College, City of Pittsburgh, American Cancer Society Action Network, Greater New Orleans Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Oxley also represents the American Red Cross - Cascades Region. So Oxley client Western States Petroleum Association fights a bill that would help communities cope with climate catastrophe costs, then their client the ARC is further burdened with wildfire relief. @influencemap.bsky.social
WSPA is opposing the Superfund but also shares the firm Oxley & Associates with the City of Pendleton. So here is a prime example of a firm profiting of a Climate Superfund opponent, WSPA, and a climate crisis victim, the City of Pendleton. @influencemap.bsky.social
Western States Petroleum Association now opposing the bill. In OR, WSPA shares Legislative Government Advoctaes with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, OR Wine Council, USAA, Oregon Student-Athlets First, OR Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs.
Oregon Farm Bureau lobbyist testifying against the bill now, but sharing lobbyists with OFB are Oregon Head Start and Oregon PERS Retirees, INC, which is perverse given widespread support among PERS members to divest from fossil fuels.
Fawn Barrie testifying against the bill for the Oregon Liability Reform Coalition also represents the Oregon Wine Council, which faces direct and indirect threats from wildfires, and USAA, which provides insurance to climate-ravaged communities. Climate impacts drive up insurance costs.
The lobbyist who opposed the bill on behalf of Associated Oregon Loggers, Chloe Haller, also lobbies for the OR Assoc. of Hospitals. Worsening air pollution from wildfires and rising temperatures means more respiratory problems, and higher costs for these hospitals and their patients.
Opposition to the bill from someone representing the logging industry; so important to note that BP America's lobbying firm, Meriweather Strategies, also has forestry clients. Who makes a better impression at a hearing?
From the OR Climate Superfund hearing happening now. As climate champion Rep. Mark Gamba reports that a washed out bridge in Milwaukee cost $2.7 million to repair, our F Minus list shows that Clackamas County shares a lobbying firm with NW Natural, the state's biggest GHG emitter.
🚨🚨🚨Beginning at 1pm PST today, we'll be live-exposing the conflicts of fossil fuel lobbyists testifying against OR's Climate Superfund Bill, such as NW Public Affairs paid $180,000 by NW Natural, the state’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, while also paid $142,000 to lobby for Clackamas County.
Our F Minus Director James Browning (Brown '91) said he was going back to Brown to talk about climate, but new photos show that he was just hanging out with Bruno the Brown mascot. Hmm.
This is not an episode of Severance starring a new character who's Lumen's lobbyist. This is reality as Rep. Sarah Silva leads the fight for lobbying reform. @sarahsilva.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @commoncausenm.bsky.social @wildearthguardians.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2026/01/22/n...
New Mexico lobbyists are playing both sides on climate • Source New Mexico
Advocates for climate change argue that New Mexico needs more transparency for its lobbyists, such as those working for oil and gas.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Top Arkansas health care lobbyists also work for top polluters fminus.org/top-arkansas...
We have *30* climate and environmental justice organizations co-signing our statement calling on all civil society organizations to DIVEST from hiring lobbyists who work for the American Chemistry Council. Add your org today! No more double agent lobbyists. actionnetwork.org/forms/divest...
Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay, from Trump’s play for Venezuela’s oil? ⬆️Profit: Big Oil + major investors ⬇️Pay: The people of Venezuela, US taxpayers + our climate 🧵 Get into the details with us: bit.ly/4swOFsK
Trump’s reckless grab for power, riches, and oil in Venezuela
Who stands to profit, and who stands to pay? “Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see; oil will bring us ruin. Oil is the Devil's excrement" – Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso…
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24 bold organizations have signed our statement to REFUSE to hire lobbyists who work with the American Chemistry Council. We need all civil society leaders to pledge to refuse to hire or collaborate with lobbyists who also work for Forever Chemicals. Add Your Name! actionnetwork.org/forms/divest...
