Sentences with phrase «which oil billionaire»
This provides the context in which oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens spent $ 50 million pushing his Pickens Plan.
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Like many oil and gas producers, Paramount Resources, Clay Riddell's original and largest company, came storming back in 2016 after a miserable 2015, which saw Riddell lose his billionaire status.
The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.
Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund.
So far, just weeks into his campaign Cuccinelli has received $ 10,000 from Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan. - based energy conglomerate run by billionaire oil executives Charles and David Koch, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, which tracks campaign donations.
Which one of them has become a billionaire, awash with dirty «oil money», living high on the hog as corporate shills?
Among them are leading opponents of climate action such as Americans for Prosperity, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the Heartland Institute, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), all of which have received funding from the oil billionaire Koch brothers.
The libertarian group, which is funded in part by the foundation of billionaire oil executive Charles Koch, convened its own panel of scientists — who represent a small minority of opinion — in Rome this week to oppose the Vatican summit.
The proposed text books — which come up for public hearing at the Texas state board of education on Tuesday — were already attracting criticism when it emerged that the science section had been altered to reflect the doctrine of the Heartland Institute, which has been funded by the Koch oil billionaires.
he proposed text books — which come up for public hearing at the Texas state board of education — were already attracting criticism when it emerged that the science section had been altered to reflect the doctrine of the Heartland Institute, which has been funded by the Koch oil billionaires.