Top Oil Firms Spending Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies

"Ad campaigns hide investment in a huge expansion of oil and gas extraction, says InfluenceMap"

"The largest five stock market listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m (£153m) a year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change, according to a new report.

Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil were the main companies leading the field in direct lobbying to push against a climate policy to tackle global warming, the report said.

Increasingly they are using social media to successfully push their agenda to weaken and oppose any meaningful legislation to tackle global warming."

Sandra Laville reports for the Guardian March 21, 2019.