Media

‘How Policymakers Can Tackle Power Shutoffs, Utility Greed and the Climate Emergency’, The Hill, 02/05/23

‘Report: U.S. Utilities Shut Off Power 5.7 Million Times as Shareholders, Executives Raked in Billions’, Center for Biological Diversity, 01/30/23

‘Report: IN Utilities Cut Power More Than 260,000 Times from 2020-2021’, Public News Service, 05/11/22

‘Master Class in War Profiteering’ by US Oil Giants, New Analysis Details, The Real News Network, 05/06/22

‘Making a Killing: Big Oil Reaps Record Profits Using Ukraine War as Pretext to Hike Gas Prices’, Democracy Now!, 04/07/22

‘Oil Company Profit-Gouging Began With the CARES Act’, The American Prospect, 03/24/22

‘Biden Walks Tightrope Between Need For Oil And Push To Go Green’, Barron’s, 03/10/22

‘Report: American Oil Company CEOs Caught Profiting From War in Ukraine’, Friends of the Earth, 03/10/22

‘5 Oil Execs Cashed Out $99 Million in Stock During Ukraine Invasion’, Gizmodo, 03/11/22

‘New Report Reveals Big Oil’s $86B Offshore Tax Bonanza’, OXFAM, 09/22/21

‘Report: Big Oil, Profiting Off of War, Plans to Return $45 Billion to Investors in Share Buybacks While Boosting Dividends’, Public Citizen, 04/05/22

‘US Fossil-Fuel Companies Took Billions in Tax Breaks- and Then Laid Off Thousands’, The Guardian, 04/02/21

‘Fossil Fuel Companies Got Billions in Bailouts, Fired Thousands of Works Anyway’, Gizmodo, 04/02/21

‘Fossil Fuel Companies Took Billions in U.S. Coronavirus Relief Funds but Still Cut Nearly 60,000 Jobs’, Inside Climate News, 04/02/21

‘Report: Senator Ted Cruz got $35 million for billionaire fracking donors in last COVID-19 relief aid’, ctpost, 12/30/20

‘Ted Cruz defends effort to secure pandemic relief for oil and gas companies, including one run by major donors’, The Dallas Morning News, 12/28/20

‘Report: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz helped donors’ Texas fracking company get pandemic relief money’, Austin American-Statesman, 12/28/20

‘Texas Fracking Billionaires Drew Covid-19 Aid While Investing in Rivals’, The Wall Street Journal, 12/27/20

‘The Trump Administration Has Given Billions in COVID-19 Relief to Fossil Fuel Industry- Report, Earth.org, 12/16/20

‘Fossil Fuel Industry Feasted on COVID-19 Relief Programs, Report Reveals’, EcoWatch, 11/24/20

‘Fossil fuel industry received $110 billion in direct and indirect COVID-19 relief’, Nation of Change, 11/23/20

  • The Wall Street Journal

    “ProFrac’s loan is blatant misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, it’s hard not to connect the dots.”

    — Christopher Kuveke

  • The Guardian

    “Last year’s stimulus was about keeping the economy going, but these companies didn’t use these resources to retain their workers. These are companies that are polluting the environment, increasing the deadliness of the pandemic and letting go of their workers.”

    — Christopher Kuveke

  • Gizmodo

    “The actions of these oil executives make it clear… their focus remains entirely on lining their own pockets”

    — Christopher Kuveke

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