California air regulators approved a sweeping carbon market overhaul Friday, giving oil refineries billions in free permits over environmentalists' objections.
    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      29·
      4 天前

      California lets companies directly fund political campaigns, so a large fraction of politicians feel they owe the oil industry a favor.

      • booscience@beehaw.org
        4·
        4 天前

        Which I might be more accepting of if we limited how much can be pooled into political contributions, and produce some system to divvy up those monies amongst candidates, and every time citizens fund energy companies they also get a stake in their companies. But instead we just get legal corruption, subsidize the profits and socialize the losses.

        • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          4 天前

          In some places companies can Directly vote ! So we’re cooked, I mean not literally, though we are literally cooked because of the complete inaction of our stupid country to do anything about global warming, too.