'A bill for the bosses': infrastructure bill sticks taxpayers with oil cleanup costs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Stitt, who received more than $240,000 in campaign donations from the oil and gas sector in 2018, is known for urging the Environmental Protection Agency to strip Indigenous tribes of regulatory authority over their land, and for co-signing a letter urging the Biden administration to resume oil and gas leasing on public lands.
48% : "If the bill passes, and we're pretty close to it passing, 25 million [dollars] will be coming to Texas to clean up abandoned wells, and larger amounts than that in the future," Christian - an avid climate change denier and head of the Railroad Commission of Texas with notoriously close ties to the oil industry - boasted on 20 August at the North American Prospect Expo, an oil industry gathering, according to a recording of the event.

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