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Jun 26, 2023

Is Your Rep Invested in Fossil Fuels?

Use the interactive map below to see if your representative owns stock in oil, gas, and coal companies. At least 100 members of the House of Representatives and their spouses own fossil fuel company

Use the interactive map below to see if your representative owns stock in oil, gas, and coal companies.

At least 100 members of the House of Representatives and their spouses own fossil fuel company stocks or mutual funds despite the conflicts of interest the investments pose for addressing climate change.

Use the interactive map below to see if your representative owns fossil fuel investments and, if so, which companies and funds they are invested in. Sludge’s analysis includes stocks in oil, gas, and coal companies, utilities that burn fossil fuels, and conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway and General Electric that own subsidiaries in oil and gas or fossil fuel-driven electricity industries. If you don’t know your district, you can check here.

[This is the first time complete data on representatives’ fossil fuel investments has been published. If you appreciate Sludge’s work, please become a member. ]

Key findings:

[Related: Facing Climate Crisis, Senators Have Millions Invested in Fossil Fuel Companies]

Observations from the swamp:

Methodology: Sludge built a scraper to extract information from the House and Senate financial disclosure portals. Handwritten disclosures were manually reviewed by Sludge reporters. Purchases and sales from 2019 periodic transaction reports with data from annual disclosures for 2018. Sludge used industry classifications from the Open Secrets website, but in some cases the industry categories were altered and companies that are not in CRP’s database were included. The data in this post and visualization are current as of Dec. 13.

One more thing! This data visualization took hundreds of hours to produce, but we believe it’s worth the time it takes to do this kind of data-driven reporting so that important sources of possible corruption, like these fossil fuel investments, do not go unknown and unchallenged. No other outlet is publishing this kind of information about congressional conflicts of interest, so if you value what we’re doing, please consider becoming a member for $5 a month. Sludge has no ads and no major foundation donors, so we rely on our members to make out reporting possible.