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Russia's Novatek working with lobbyists to thaw US relations, sources say

* Russia's Novatek working with lobbyists to thaw US relations, sources say US targeted Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project with sanctions * Arctic LNG 2 suspended output, sources say * Novatek seeks to rebuild relations with West, source says By Anna Hirtenstein and Marwa Rashad LONDON, - Russia's largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek is working with lobbyists in an …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Fears hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists could derail crucial plastic pollution summit

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Allowing fossil fuel and petrochemical companies to exert their influence in these negotiations is like letting foxes guard the …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

220+ industry lobbyists shape plastic pollution treaty talks, raising concerns

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Around 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists are participating in the ongoing negotiations in Busan, South Korea, to develop a global legally binding instrument on phasing out plastic pollution, a new analysis has shown, which also flagged concerning “reports of intimidation and interference” from industry representatives. “Fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists taken together would be the …

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1 month ago

Louisiana governor’s tax overhaul faces opposition as lawmakers and lobbyists horse-trade

Associated Press

Jeff Landry is pushing big plans to overhaul the state’s complex tax code to deliver income and corporate tax cuts. Even with the proposed tax package’s new revenue streams, Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana stood to lose more than $20 million in revenue as result of the changes, said Tax Administrator Betty Jo Bourgeois. Most importantly for the tax reform …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Nearly 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

New Indian Express

BAKU, Azerbaijan: At least 480 lobbyists for companies and groups that advocate for a misguided technology that prolongs fossil fuel use have gained access to the COP29 climate talks, according to a new analysis conducted by the Center for International Environmental Law. The number of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage lobbyists is higher than the core delegations from the United …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Top polluting cities revealed as activists fume at COP29 fossil fuel lobby

Al Jazeera

Oil giants commit $500m for sustainable energy, but campaigners say lobbyists have seized control of climate talks. “It’s like tobacco lobbyists at a conference on lung cancer,” David Tong from campaign group Oil Change International told the AFP news agency. “It’s unfortunate that the fossil fuel industry and the petrostates have seized control of the COP process to an unhealthy …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29: Report

New Indian Express

At least 1,773 coal, oil, and gas lobbyists have been granted access to the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, a new report has found, raising concerns about the planet-heating industry’s influence on the negotiations. Days before the talks kicked off, Elnur Soltanov, Azerbaijan’s deputy energy minister and chief executive of Cop29, was caught on film agreeing to facilitate …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Anaheim postpones voting on law limiting gifts from lobbyists

LA Times

Councilman Stephen Faessel moved to punt a debate on the gift cap law until a later date. “By setting a high standard for our conduct, we’re showing our commitment to a transparent government where decisions are made openly without any hidden agenda or personal gain.” If passed as proposed, the law would ban gifts worth more than $50 given by …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Dutch cabinet has made a "false start" with transparency pledge

Dutch News

The new Dutch cabinet has a made a completely false start” when it comes being transparent about meeting lobby groups, the Open State Foundation said in a report on Monday. The new administration took office two months ago, but since then ministers have failed to properly register which lobbyists they have met and what they talked about, the foundation said. …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Dutch cabinet has made a "false start" with transparency pledge

Dutch News

The new Dutch cabinet has a made a completely false start” when it comes being transparent about meeting lobby groups, the Open State Foundation said in a report on Monday. The new administration took office two months ago, but since then ministers have failed to properly register which lobbyists they have met and what they talked about, the foundation said. …

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4 months, 1 week ago

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments

NPR

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. One of the things you write about is that companies that were representing foreign governments, particularly dictatorial foreign governments, where they could loot untold millions and maybe even billions from their own national treasuries, could pay money to the lobbying companies, and then …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Amid budget shortfall, lobbyists push for multibillion-dollar climate bond

LA Times

Dozens of environmental groups, renewable energy companies, labor unions, water agencies and social justice advocates are lobbying state lawmakers to place a multibillion-dollar climate bond on the November ballot. “Time to GO ALL IN on a Climate Bond,” says the ad from WateReuse California, a trade association advocating for projects that would recycle treated sewage and storm runoff into drinking …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Global Plastics Treaty: Can ‘climate’ sense prevail over oil & gas lobby?

New Indian Express

Roadblocks As per an analysis done by Center for International Environmental Law and few other organisations, a whopping196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered for the INC-4 negotiations. Dharmesh Shah, Consulting Senior Campaigner with CIEL, told TNIE: "In the end, there was no consensus on polymer production reduction, which is a failure because we were expecting some ambitious …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Read this powerful GOP senator’s pay-to-play 'benefits package' for lobbyists

Raw Story

Are you a lobbyist itching for a fishing trip with Sen. Mike Crapo, the top Republican on the powerful Senate Finance Committee? This year, according to a flier obtained by Raw Story, $5,000 given to the Crapo Victory Committee buys donors one of the following: Annual Ski Fest at Sun Valley, Idaho. What the committee calls the “Max Out Benefits …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Big Oil lobbyists swarm UN talks on global plastics treaty

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The world is on the verge of agreeing an agreement to combat plastic pollution but …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

In the Kansas House, when lobbyists ask for new laws, their names go on the bills

Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. — For years, pinning down the source of a bill in the Kansas Legislature could be a chore for lawmakers’ constituents. “It helps to rebuild some of the trust with the public in their elected officials and in their institutions and in the legislative process in general.” In Kansas, House Bill 2527, which would rewrite laws on how …

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54 years, 11 months ago

TikTok is turning its users into lobbyists, just like Uber did.

Slate

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, does not want Congress to force a sale of its crown jewel. As ByteDance throws every weapon it can against the bill, a key element of its strategy has emerged: deputize its army of TikTok “creators” to become informal lobbyists, asking them to plead the company’s case. “You’re giving a middle finger to …

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9 months, 1 week ago

As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, meet your latest lobbyists: online influencers from TikTok. The platform is once again bringing influencers to Washington, this time to lobby members of Congress to reject a fast-moving bill that would force TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company to sell or be banned in the United States. But unlike a similar lobbying event the company put together last March …

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10 months ago

California lawmakers can’t take lobbyist donations — unless they’re running for Congress

LA Times

State Sen. Susan Rubio has a powerful position in Sacramento. Rubio has received nearly $43,300 in contributions from registered state lobbyists in her campaign to replace retiring Rep. Grace F. Napolitano in California’s 31st Congressional District. Two state legislators running for Congress have not received any lobbyist donations: Sen. Bob Archuleta, who is also running for Napolitano’s San Gabriel Valley …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Kate Garraway dances with late husband Derek Draper in heartbreaking clip shared by pal Myleene Klass after lobbyist's funeral: 'Until you're dancing together again'

Daily Mail

Kate Garraway was seen dancing with her late husband Derek Draper in a heartbreaking clip shared by her pal Myleene Klass on Friday. Kate Garraway, 56, was seen dancing with her late husband Derek Draper in a heartbreaking clip shared by pal Myleene Klass on Friday Family and friends had gathered at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in …

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1 year ago

COP28 Climate Summit Awash In Record Number Of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists

Huff Post

Nearly 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the halls of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai — a record number that’s nearly four times the industry’s presence at last year’s negotiations. That’s according to a new analysis from Kick Big Polluters Out, a coalition of groups that advocates for ridding the annual climate talks of fossil fuel industry influence. KPBO …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Renegade dairy lobbyists Farmer Power call it quits to join forces with remaining pressure groups

ABC

It was the renegade dairy lobby group that held angry rallies in regional Victoria, marched on Melbourne and called for an end to dollar-a-litre milk. Key points: Renegade dairy group Farmer Power will disband after a decade The group formed angry about one dollar a litre supermarket milk prices and held Australia-wide protests The group has thrown its support behind …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Dem senator used to bash lobbyists. Now they're feting him at exclusive D.C. fundraisers.

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — Just before Democrat Bob Casey entered the U.S. Senate a political generation ago, he railed at his incumbent Republican opponent, Rick Santorum, for selling himself out to lobbyists. “You’ve been the Senate liaison to K Street, which is a mess, which is a place of corruption and influence peddling,” Casey said in a 2006 debate with Santorum. “And …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Heat pump lobbyists think new oil boiler ban is ‘unfair’

The Telegraph

On Wednesday, more MPs joined calls to scrap or delay the ban after George Eustice, the former environment secretary, labelled it a “rural Ulez”. Sir Edward Leigh, the MP for Gainsborough, said: “It’s completely madness to have a sort of rapid phase-out of these oil boilers. It’s a countryside Ulez, and we’ve just got to delay this.” Christopher Chope, who …

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Russia's Novatek working with lobbyists to thaw US relations, sources say

Fears hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists could derail crucial plastic pollution summit

220+ industry lobbyists shape plastic pollution treaty talks, raising concerns

Louisiana governor’s tax overhaul faces opposition as lawmakers and lobbyists horse-trade

Nearly 500 carbon capture lobbyists granted access to Cop29 climate summit

Top polluting cities revealed as activists fume at COP29 fossil fuel lobby

Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29: Report

Anaheim postpones voting on law limiting gifts from lobbyists

Dutch cabinet has made a "false start" with transparency pledge

Dutch cabinet has made a "false start" with transparency pledge

'Foreign Agents' explores the U.S. citizens lobbying for foreign governments

Amid budget shortfall, lobbyists push for multibillion-dollar climate bond

Global Plastics Treaty: Can ‘climate’ sense prevail over oil & gas lobby?

Read this powerful GOP senator’s pay-to-play 'benefits package' for lobbyists

Big Oil lobbyists swarm UN talks on global plastics treaty

In the Kansas House, when lobbyists ask for new laws, their names go on the bills

TikTok is turning its users into lobbyists, just like Uber did.

As TikTok bill steams forward, online influencers put on their lobbying hats to visit Washington

California lawmakers can’t take lobbyist donations — unless they’re running for Congress

Kate Garraway dances with late husband Derek Draper in heartbreaking clip shared by pal Myleene Klass after lobbyist's funeral: 'Until you're dancing together again'

COP28 Climate Summit Awash In Record Number Of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists

Renegade dairy lobbyists Farmer Power call it quits to join forces with remaining pressure groups

Dem senator used to bash lobbyists. Now they're feting him at exclusive D.C. fundraisers.

Heat pump lobbyists think new oil boiler ban is ‘unfair’