BailoutWatch – Tracking government support for the fossil fuel industry.

SERIES: What Fossil Fuels Really Did With Their Bailouts

Our three-part analysis of 2020 annual reports and proxies found that oil, gas and coal companies received billions in bailout benefits, then paid off their shareholders and executives while laying off workers.

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Reports, news, and analysis on how the fossil fuel industry is using federal bailout money.

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Big Oil’s $86B offshore tax bonanza

New research by BailoutWatch, Friends of the Earth, and Oxfam reveals a trove of international tax subsidies that exclusively benefit a handful of multinational polluters

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End Of Fed Bond-Buying Leaves Fossil Fuels Stronger, Masking Their Threat To Financial System

The Federal Reserve has finished selling bonds purchased in a historic rescue that propped up the fossil fuel industry, presaging future bailouts

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6 Bailed-Out Polluters Already Spent $15M This Year Lobbying For Subsidies And Against Climate Action

The biggest spenders in fossil fuel lobbying went hard to protect tax breaks, limit disclosure of their climate impacts, and fight methane regulation

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Bailed Out and Propped Up

The fossil fuel industry received between $10.4 billion and $15.2 billion in direct economic relief from federal efforts under President Donald Trump.

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President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act in the early days of the pandemic.

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Brookings: How Biden And Congress Can Use COVID-Related Corporate Stimulus To Boost Climate Resilience

The Brookings Institute arges that the U.S. should use pandemic recovery funds to incentivize corporations to better confront their own climate risk exposure.

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