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May 17, 2016

Big Oil spent $25 million lobbying 2015 -- 2016




WSPA meme courtesy of Stop Fooling California.


Big Oil has spent $25 million lobbying during 2015-16 legislative session!


by Dan Bacher
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Underneath California’s veneer as a “green leader” is a dark and oily reality — the state is the third largest petroleum producer in the nation and the oil industry is California’s largest and most powerful political lobby. 
In fact, last year’s oil industry “gusher” of lobbying expenses ensured that no environmental bill opposed by Big Oil was able to make out of the Legislature unless it was amended, as in the case of SB 350, the green energy bill. The oil lobby broke its prior spending record, spending $22 million over the past year.

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