US taxpayers subsidising world's biggest fossil fuel companies

US taxpayers subsidising world’s biggest fossil fuel companies

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The world’s biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.

A Guardian investigation of three specific projects, run by Shell, ExxonMobil and Marathon Petroleum, has revealed that the subsidises were all granted by politicians who received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry.

US taxpayers subsidising world’s biggest fossil fuel companies

-The Guardian 5/13/2015

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