Municipalities that are suffering from the climate crisis employ lobbyists already in the pay of fossil fuel companies
Liberal cities and counties across the US – including ones suing oil and gas companies – are employing lobbyists who also represent the fossil fuel industry, new research shows.
The city of Baltimore, which in 2018 sued fossil fuel companies for damages related to the climate crisis, shared a lobbyist with one of the defendants in the case: ExxonMobil.
