Article 5R3JX Tories received £1.3m from fossil fuel interests and climate sceptics since 2019

Tories received £1.3m from fossil fuel interests and climate sceptics since 2019

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Pamela Duncan, Jonathan Watts and Georgina Quach
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5R3JX)

Gifts and donations were from oil companies, airports, petrostates and climate-sceptic thinktanks

The Conservative party and its MPs have registered 1.3m in gifts and donations from climate sceptics and fossil fuel interests since the 2019 general election, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.

Oil companies, petrostates, airports and businesses linked with Russian energy tycoons are among this set of donors, who have either made money from fossil fuels or stand to lose economically or politically from cutting emissions.

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