Environment
Big Oil Lobbyist Michael Whatley Lands On The 2026 “Dirty Dozen” List
“Every candidate on this year’s Dirty Dozen has a record, a vote, a lobbying history, or a policy position that is helping drive up the electricity and heating bills their own constituents pay, whether through blocking or repealing clean energy projects, providing handouts to dirtier and more expensive fuels like oil, coal and gas, or embracing costly data center buildouts without protecting ratepayers from the bill or the pollution.”
September 21, 2026
