<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 86, 83); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Excerpt : </b>Twenty-nine U.S. senators and their spouses own between $3.5 million and $13.9 million worth of stock in companies that extract, transport, or burn fossil fuels, or provide services to fossil fuel companies, according to a Sludge analysis of personal financial filings as of Aug. 16. The senators are invested in 86 fossil fuel companies, including well-known giants like ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, but also a range of lesser known companies that specialize in pipeline operations, natural gas exports, and oilfield services. <br class=""></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 86, 83); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fossil fuel combustion accounted for about 76% of the greenhouse gases emitted in 2017, according to a June <a href="https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environment/where-greenhouse-gases-come-from.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; display: inline; transition: color 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; position: relative; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, transparent, transparent 2px, rgb(43, 86, 255) 2px, rgb(43, 86, 255) 4px, transparent 4px); text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px; border-bottom-style: none !important; text-decoration: none !important;">report</a> from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. <br class=""></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.57; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(90, 86, 83); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://readsludge.com/2019/09/24/facing-climate-crisis-senators-have-millions-invested-in-fossil-fuel-companies/" class="">https://readsludge.com/2019/09/24/facing-climate-crisis-senators-have-millions-invested-in-fossil-fuel-companies/</a></p></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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