Opponents of the Green New Deal have on average received 24 times more campaign cash from big oil and gas interests than sponsors of the proposal, which aims to slow the American contribution to climate change by remaking the domestic economy and launching an enormous federal public works effort.
An analysis for Fast Company by MapLight, which researches the consequences of the current campaign finance system, found the 90 Democratic sponsors of a non-binding House measure sketching out the idea have received just $37,175 in campaign donations – an average of $413 each – from the 10 largest publicly traded U.S. oil and gas companies since 2017. Meanwhile, the 344 other members cumulatively received 91 times more money. Those 197 Republicans and 145 Democrats took almost $3.4 million from the energy companies, an average of $9,876 per lawmaker.
Following our HWF Civic Futures kickoff last week with Eric Liu, our design partners at Public/Official have created a unique visual to capture the “civic scaffolding” spirit of this conversation.
Lisa, Coaches Rev and Matt Elkin, and former Stanford Men’s Basketball star Maxime Raynaud at Stanford’s “All Vote No Play” Democracy Day, 2025
