Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil | Environment

Republican legislators who voted for the Donald Trump anti-environment bill and anti-environment expenses have accepted more than $ 105 million in political fossil fuel industry, revealed a new analysis, which raises concerns about their relationship with Big Oil.

Signed last month, the One Big Beautiful Bill law includes billions of dollars in gifts to oil and gas companies and their leaders, as well as provisions to scale the credits for clean vehicles, wind and solar energy which were devoted by the Inflation Act of Joe Biden (IRA).

All members of the GOP chamber except two voted to support the budget bill, just like all GOP senators except three. This includes many republicans of districts which have benefited the most from the green credits of the IRA, and those who spent months trying to defend tax credits for renewable energies against the provisions of the budget bill, such as representative Andrew Garbarino de New York and the Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John Curtis.

The new report of the Cormented Power Environment Defense Group has totaled the funds that the donors of the bill accepted from the fossil fuels industry during their political career, noting that the members of the Chamber had accepted $ 54.4 million and senators accepted $ 51.5 million.

“These republicans in the congress are caught in the act of massive donations from the oil and gas industry, and voted to give them billions and to destroy their competition from their own state energy industries,” said the analysis.

With the mid-term elections of the chamber planned for next year, Climate Power has also examined the donations of fossil fuels to the 15 Republicans of the Chamber deemed the most vulnerable to an electoral challenge, according to the Political Report Cook, which independently analyzes the political viability of elections and campaigns. The 15 supported the mega-bill, and together they accepted more than $ 3 million in donations from the fossil fuel industry, the authors noted.

Originally from Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, New Jersey, California, Michigan and New York, the list legislators come from regions that have experienced the benefits of IRA credits for wind and solar energy, as well as the manufacture of batteries. The Mega-Bill puts more than 110,000 jobs from the three sectors in danger in the 15 districts of the legislators, and should also increase consumer energy bills up to $ 200 per year by 2030, according to the Thinktank Energy Innovation climate policy.

Some on the list had previously criticized the bill: MP Mariannette Milian-Meeks of Iowa, who accepted $ 229,179 in oil and gas contributions, is committed to supporting clean energy tax credits, but still supported legislation, while Jeff Hurd, Colorado, is committed to opposing the bill because of her cups But ended his support.

“These republican members of the congress all represent moderate swing districts with close elections, where voters of the two parties expect their representatives to be, so as not to kill their work and increase their public service bills for special interests outside the state,” said Pete Jones, director of Climate Power. “These members have chosen who defends themselves and they have chosen their billionaire donors.”

Big Oil spent $ 445 million throughout the last electoral cycle to influence Trump and Congress, Climate Power found in January. The industry also paid more than $ 19 million in the Trump inaugural fund, representing almost 8% of all the donations it raised, a report found last month.

“We will again be a rich nation, and it is this liquid gold under our feet that will help to do so,” said Trump in his inaugural speech.

Since his reintegration of the White House, Trump has adopted not only the anti-environmental law One Big Beautiful Bill, but has also signed a series of decrees and policies aimed at repressing clean energy and stimulating oil and gas already lighting up.