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Industry Money Influences Keystone Vote, Group Claims
2013-03-25 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: It`s probably not surprising that the U.S. Senate passed an amendment (62-37) in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. There`s money -- Big Money -- at stake, and new research from Oil Change International details who got what. The 10 senators who cosponsored the Hoeven Amendment have on average received $807, 517 from the fossil fuel industry. That works out to 254 percent more than the average senator not sponsoring the amendment, and a total haul of more than $8 million dollars, based...
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