Center for American Progress: The Fed’s Oil and Gas Bailout Is a Mistake
The Fed’s willingness to throw a lifeline to oil and gas companies, through its lending programs, exacerbates a risk to financial stability—climate change.
Reports
Reports from other organizations on fossil fuel industry bailouts and related topics. Opinions expressed in these publications are those of the authors and BailoutWatch has not independently confirmed their findings.
National Whistleblower Center: Exposing a Ticking Time Bomb
In their July report, the National Whistleblower Center explores the potential for climate risk fraud in the fossil fuel industry, and the work of whistleblowers, prosecutors and regulators as an important pathway to ensuring proper disclosures of climate risks.
Brookings: Addressing the Other COVID Crisis, Corruption
In a July report, the Brookings Institution explores how COVID-19 oversight authorities might deal with new evidence of corruption from the Trump administration.
Congressional Oversight Commission: Third Report
In its third report, the Commission describes recent key actions the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have taken under the CARES Act.
InfluenceMap: Is the Fed Being Sector Neutral?
The Fed's recent corporate debt purchases show that it is highly overweight on the energy industry.
Ceres: Blueprint for Responsible Policy Engagement on Climate Change
Ceres offers a blueprint on how companies can establish systems that address climate change as a systemic risk and integrate this understanding into their direct and indirect lobbying on climate policies.
E2+E4: Build Back Better, Faster
A joint report details how a federal stimulus focusing on clean energy can create millions of jobs and restart America’s economy.
Campaign Legal Center: Politically Connected Oil Companies Receiving Pandemic Relief
Hundreds of the oil companies drilling on public lands that have received financial relief from the Interior Department are owned by political megadonors or have close ties to senior Interior officials' former clients.
InfluenceMap: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists are Dominating Climate Policy Battles During COVID-19
Fossil fuels’ bailout demands have dominated policy battles stemming from COVID-19.
Public Citizen: COVID Lobbying Palooza
In this report, Public Citizen tracks lobbyists during the COVID-19 pandemic that are connected to the Trump administration, and calls for immediate disclosure on COVID-related federal spending.