House Climate Panel Democrats Steeped in Energy Industry Cash
- Campaign finance data shows $238,000 from industry interests
- Republicans not named yet to newly revived select committee
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Democrats named to a newly revived House committee on climate change received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the oil, gas, and utility industries, campaign finance data show.
In all, the nine Democratic members of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, accepted more than $238,000 from sectors tied to the energy industry, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission 2018 campaign spending data by the Center for Responsive Politics.