Big oil and gas have a lot invested in Trump’s attack on the election system | Jonathan Watts
This ‘climate coup’ shows how terrified far-right Republicans and their fossil-fuel donors are of losing power in the long term
Calmer heads may yet talk Donald Trump down from caps-locked denial to lower-case concession, but the longer the defeated president flirts with a coup, the more the oil and gas industry must take a share of the blame.
Fossil-fuel firms are among the biggest donors to the defeated US president and the Republican party leaders who have endorsed his legal challenge to overturn the election result.
