The Public Campaign Action Fund has a new report out today that details the grip the energy industry has on members of the US House Committee on Energy & Commerce. The report arrives as the Energy & Power Subcommittee convenes to debate a Republican effort to weaken the Clean Air Act. It not only profiles the direct contributions to Subcommittee members but also the help they received from the election spending of the network of anti-regulation groups funded by the Koch brothers. “Energy interests spent big in 2010 to get their preferred candidates elected to office, and we are seeing an early return on that investment,” said David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund. “Decisions to protect public health should be made without regard to campaign cash from oil and coal interests. Sadly that’s apparently not the case.” Think Progress reveals just how warped the hearing today will be; the list of expert witnesses and the bill under debate are the result of close collaboration with lobbyists for major polluters.
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I believe the concern that industry has is the EPA making a recent endangerment ruling regarding the unproven theory that CO2 causes global warming. This would stifle our energy capacity in limiting fossil fuel generation. In addition our government should be expanding energy exploration. Many scientist are showing that CO2 emissions has nothing to do with global warming. It is only part of the normal cycling of climate. In this case the efforts of the Koch Brothers is working towards a positive outcome.