Oil and gas companies invest in legislators that vote against the environment

Do campaign contributions from oil and gas companies influence legislators to vote against the environment, or do these companies invest in legislators that have a proven antienvironmental voting record? Using 28 y of campaign contribution data, we find that evidence consistently supports the invest...

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Autores principales: Goldberg, Matthew H., Marlon, Jennifer R., Wang, Xinran, van der Linden, Sander, Leiserowitz, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2020
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Physical Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7071911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32094171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922175117
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author Goldberg, Matthew H.
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Wang, Xinran
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description Do campaign contributions from oil and gas companies influence legislators to vote against the environment, or do these companies invest in legislators that have a proven antienvironmental voting record? Using 28 y of campaign contribution data, we find that evidence consistently supports the investment hypothesis: The more a given member of Congress votes against environmental policies, the more contributions they receive from oil and gas companies supporting their reelection.
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spelling pubmed-70719112020-03-22 Oil and gas companies invest in legislators that vote against the environment Goldberg, Matthew H. Marlon, Jennifer R. Wang, Xinran van der Linden, Sander Leiserowitz, Anthony Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Physical Sciences Do campaign contributions from oil and gas companies influence legislators to vote against the environment, or do these companies invest in legislators that have a proven antienvironmental voting record? Using 28 y of campaign contribution data, we find that evidence consistently supports the investment hypothesis: The more a given member of Congress votes against environmental policies, the more contributions they receive from oil and gas companies supporting their reelection. National Academy of Sciences 2020-03-10 2020-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7071911/ /pubmed/32094171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922175117 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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