Big Oil dishes out record $54.2 million to boost GOP candidates: analysis

The investigative outlet Sludge reported Thursday that the fossil fuel industry has pumped a record sum this election cycle into a pair of super PACs dedicated to securing GOP control of the House and retaking the narrowly Democratic Senate next month.

Citing Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings made public earlier this week, Sludge noted that oil and gas giants such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips as well as the American Petroleum Institute—the industry's largest lobbying group—donated...