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F Minus is exposing the extent to which fossil fuel lobbyists also represent people, communities, and businesses being harmed by the climate crisis.
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Oregon's Public Schools share a lobbyist with PFAS offenders.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🗓 Join us Nov. 12th for “Oregon’s Dirty Secret: the Public School and PERS lobbyists who secretly work for oil, gas, and chemical companies,” a public briefing on how to align Oregon’s investments with its values. actionnetwork.org/events/orego...
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We are looking for 5 more bold parents in Oregon ready to take on forever chemicals to become F Minus activists. Do you know anyone you'd recommend? Please send them our way!
actionnetwork.org/forms/oregon...
October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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When even a “green” state says no to a PFAS ban (looking at you California!), we need to follow the money... AND the LOBBYISTS.

Oregon’s public institutions can lead where California stumbled.
#PFASBan #CleanLobbying #ProtectKids
October 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“It’s cynical and sick that the same lobbyists who helped convince Gov. Newsom to veto this PFAS ban actually lobbied for the ban at the same time on behalf of water agencies and other clients who desperately need help cleaning up PFAS,” -James Browning, Executive Director | F Minus
October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Elon Musk caused the harm. Now his lobbyists are charging your community to clean it up.
August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Today F Minus launched a database of every Congressional and state lobbying firm that works for Elon Musk.

Many of these firms also lobby on behalf of mainstream and progressive clients being devastated by DOGE.

Explore the Musk lobbyist list here: fminus.org/lobbyist-cat...

#teslatakedown
April 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Brown & Weinraub's own website exposes their duplicity on climate. The firm touts its work for e-bikes and e-scooters, which is completely in conflict with its client work aiming to block the Climate Change Superfund Act and other bills.
Image of Brown & Weinraub's climate commitments laid out on its website. The firm touts that "We’re particularly proud of the work we continue to do to advance the alternative energy sector in New York State including having helped established the residential solar program, laying the groundwork for a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, managing the transition from older generation methods to new, cleaner technologies and promotion of electric vehicles, including scooters and e-bikes, as well as the infrastructure to charge them." In reality, the firm also makes a lot of money lobbying for the fossil fuel industry, making their lobbying agenda an inherent conflict of interests among clients.
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Further, Brown & Weinraub maintains Costco as a client, a company which states that it believes in a “just transition” in response to the #climatecrisis in its published climate commitments. There is no just transition if we don’t #MakePollutersPay for the #climate loses & damages they created.
Image from Costco's climate commitment page on its website, with an Asian man depicted at top right and a headline reading "We Believe in a Just Transition." Expanding on this headline, Costco states that, "We align our decarbonization objectives with our commitments to human rights, diversity, equity and inclusion, life above land and below water, water conservation and waste reduction. That's because we believe our transition to a low carbon business model also should represent a just transition for our employees, members, suppliers and the communities we serve."
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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The firm also represents publisher Houghton Mifflin, which publishes a bounty of books in support of #climateaction, including the 2016 book depicted here. Yet the firm simltaneously lobbies for Shell, a Koch Industries subsidiary, American Petroleum Institute, & handfuls of others.
Image of the front cover of the Houghton Mifflin book titled, "It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present and Future of Climate Change," with a polar bear on melting icebergs in the Arctic sea depicted. The book is by author Bridget Heos.
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Many of these lobbyists backing #fossilfuels also work for clients who purport to be green. Brown & Weinraub represents Google, for example, as referenced above. Google is a sustainability leader within Big Tech.
An image of Google's pledged climate change commitments from its website, which reads, "At Google, our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations and value chain by 2030. We aim to reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions (compared to our 2019 base year) by 2030, and plan to invest in nature-based and technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize our remaining emissions. Our net-zero goal is supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to operate our offices and data centers on 24/7 carbon-free energy, such as solar and wind.1 In our third decade of climate action, we continue to take a science-based approach to our efforts, while sharing our own lessons and progress with others. We’re working toward this goal in two key ways: first, we’re focused on reducing emissions across our operations and value chain (including advancing 24/7 carbon-free energy), and after reducing our emissions as much as possible, we’re addressing our residual emissions with carbon removals."
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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NY's #fossilfuel lobbying firms, like Brown & Weinraub, are desperately trying — though the #MakePollutersPay movement has different plans in mind — to keep Gov. Hochul from signing the Climate Change Superfund Act.
Image of a die-in protest tactic at the New York State Capitol on December 11, 2024, with activists seated on the floor and a sign calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Climate Superfund Act
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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What’s going on in #NewYork with the Climate Superfund Act? Just Google it. It's time to #MakePollutersPay.
F Minus branded image shows the hypocrisy of Google's relationship, as a climate leader within Big Tech, with a major fossil fuel lobbying firm named Brown & Weinraub
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Outrageously, though, this same thing happens every day in statehouses nationwide, where F Minus has exposed more than 1500 #fossilfuel lobbyists who also lobby fors environmental groups andmunicipalities impacted by #climatechange, educational bodies tasked with acting on #climate, etc.
Graphic from the organization F Minus shows that there are 1,178 shared fossil fuel lobbyists with the healthcare industry at the state level, 689 between government and fossil fuel lobbyists, 291 between environmental lobbyists and fossil fuels, and 874 between educational interests and fossil fuels. That includes groups like the American Cancer Society, the City of Pittsburgh, The Nature Conservancy, and NYU School of Medicine all sharing lobbyists with firms that also represent the fossil fuel industry. The graphic reads that after year one of F Minus' coming into being, the group is "Exposing the lobbyists representing the Fosill Fuel companies and their victims." It is a white backdrop with red trimming, the same color of F Minus' logo
December 2, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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That's because LA County uses lobbying firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, which also lobbies for Western Independent Refiners in CA. The firm also lobbies for Brightline Defense, a Bay Area environmental justice group. It's time advocating for climate justice to ditch their fossil fuel lobbyists.
Marathon Refinery in Carson, CA, just outside of Los Angeles, with big American flag on it in the front
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Ventura County's Mountain Fire burned neaarly 20,000 acres and destroyed nearly 200 structures, including dozens of homes. Nextdoor Los Angeles County arguably aided in fueling the fire, though, despite its carbon neutrality by 2050 goal and interim goals in between.
Firefighters put out a fire in Ventura County, part of the broader Mountain Fire
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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This raises Q: will #Chicago divorce itself from its fossil fuel lobbyists? Or remain part of metaphorical "fourth house," another conflict of interest fueling state's "culture of corruption." Even if the state continues along the path, Chicago can lead by divesting from its fossil fuel lobbyists.
Oil derricks about the size and height of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago seen placed into that landscape to visualize the city's relationship with fossil fuel lobbyists as the city has sued the fossil fuel industry for decades of climate deception and now ongoing damages from the climate crisis
November 20, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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The city’s pension fund shares a lobbying firm w/ Phillips 66, another company named in the suit. Lobbying firm Phelps Barry also represents U of IL, which has come under increasing pressure to divest from fossil fuels from campus activists.
Phillips 66 gas station seen alongside an Arby's with bright blue sky and fluffy clouds at a stereotypical roadside location
November 20, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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Some examples! Great piece by the Nevada Current.
August 30, 2023 at 8:19 PM