Who Lobbied For and Against Keystone XL? Almost Everybody
February 6, 2012 | 12:53 PM
Politico digs through lobbying reports and finds that nearly everyone tried to have their say:
“It’s no surprise that oil companies, labor unions, environmental groups and an association of pipe manufacturers would want to lobby Congress about the Keystone XL pipeline.
But Quakers? The American Jewish Committee? The makers of John Deere tractors?
Yet those groups were among 52 companies, trade associations and other organizations that had lobbyists working the Hill last year on issues that touched at least glancingly on the proposed Alberta-to-Texas oil pipeline, according to Senate lobbying disclosure records.”
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