★ Sector
Fossil Fuels
March 2024 – March 2026
- Orgs
- 24
- People
- 6
- Actions
- 31
- Topics
- 8
Companies that explore for, produce, refine, transport, export, or trade oil, natural gas, and coal — including upstream exploration and production firms, integrated oil majors, LNG exporters, coal producers, commodities traders, and the industry's trade associations and lobbying arms.
Organizations
- Alliance Resource PartnersBusiness
- Alpha Metallurgical ResourcesBusiness
- American Petroleum InstituteAdvocacy Group
- Armstrong Oil and GasBusiness
- Aspect HoldingsBusiness
- BP AmericaBusiness
- Cheniere EnergyBusiness
Chevron CorpBusiness- Commonwealth LNGBusiness
ConocoPhillipsBusiness- Continental ResourcesBusiness
- Energy TransferBusiness
- Epoch Oil and GasBusiness
Exxon MobilBusiness- Formentera PartnersBusiness
- Hilcorp Energy CompanyBusiness
- Iron SenergyBusiness
- Javelin Global CommoditiesBusiness
Occidental PetroleumBusiness- RepsolBusiness
- Santos Ltd.Business
- SempraBusiness
Shell USABusiness- Venture Global LNGBusiness
Actions
Actions involving organizations in this sector, players affiliated with them, or sector-wide benefits.
- Trump's Interior Department generates record $164M from Alaska oil lease sale$163.7MGovernment ActionBeneficiaryMarch 2026
The U.S. upstream fossil-fuel industry is the structural beneficiary of the BLM's statutorily mandated lease sale program. The OBBBA mandate requires at least five NPR-A sales offering ≥4 million acres each through 2035, locking in a long-cycle lease pipeline for industry participants.
- Interior reopens 1.56-million-acre ANWR Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasingGovernment ActionBeneficiaryOctober 2025
Reopens up to 1.56 million acres of the ANWR Coastal Plain — estimated to hold up to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil — to leasing across the U.S. oil and gas industry.
- Corporations pledge funding for Trump's $300M White House ballroomPrivate ActionOctober 2025
- Trump creates National Energy Dominance Council chaired by BurgumGovernment ActionBeneficiaryFebruary 2025
Fossil-fuel producers (oil, gas, coal) are the largest single class of beneficiaries — the council's mandate explicitly targets maximizing domestic production and coordinating regulatory streamlining across the fossil sector.
- Trump's Energy Department grants Commonwealth LNG first post-pause export licenseGovernment ActionFebruary 2025
- Trump restarts stalled natural gas export approvals paused by BidenGovernment ActionJanuary 2025
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- American Petroleum Institute donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Aspect Holdings donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- BP America donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Chevron Corp donates $2M to Trump-Vance inaugural$2MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- ConocoPhillips donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Exxon Mobil donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Iron Senergy donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Javelin Global Commodities donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Jeffery/Melinda Hildebrand donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Joseph Craft donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Occidental Petroleum donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Shell USA donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural$500KPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Trump order ends EV mandates and state emissions waiversGovernment ActionBeneficiaryJanuary 2025
Ends federal EV mandates and state emissions waivers, sustaining demand for gasoline-powered vehicles and the fossil fuels that power them.
- Trump order directs agencies to rescind energy-burdening regulationsGovernment ActionBeneficiaryJanuary 2025
Directs every federal agency to suspend or rescind rules burdening oil, gas, and coal development, easing the regulatory load across the fossil-fuel industry.
- Trump order directs EPA to reconsider 2009 endangerment findingGovernment ActionBeneficiaryJanuary 2025
Targets the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas rules, relieving the fossil-fuel industry of the emissions standards built on the 2009 endangerment finding.
- Trump revokes twelve Biden climate and environmental ordersGovernment ActionBeneficiaryJanuary 2025
Repeals Biden-era clean-energy and clean-car policies, removing the regulatory support that favored fossil fuels' competitors.
- Venture Global LNG donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural$1MPrivate ActionJanuary 2025
- Continental Resources donates $2M to MAGA Inc.$2MPrivate ActionSeptember 2024
- Harold Hamm donates $1M to MAGA Inc.$1MPrivate ActionSeptember 2024
- Alex Cranberg donates $500K to Trump 47 Committee$500KPrivate ActionJuly 2024
- Cathy Cranberg donates $500K to Trump 47 Committee$500KPrivate ActionJuly 2024
- Joseph Craft donates $1M to AMERICA PAC$1MPrivate ActionJune 2024
- Bryan Sheffield donates $845K to Trump 47 Committee$844.6KPrivate ActionMay 2024
- Harold Hamm donates $614K to Trump 47 Committee$614KPrivate ActionMarch 2024
People
Derived from affiliations to organizations in this sector.
- Alex CranbergChair, Aspect Holdings · Private Sector Figure
- Bryan SheffieldManaging Director, Formentera Partners · Private Sector Figure
- Cathy CranbergCEO, Aspect Holdings · Private Sector Figure
Harold HammFounder, Continental Resources · Private Sector Figure- Jeffery HildebrandFounder, Hilcorp Energy Company · Private Sector Figure
Joseph CraftCEO, Alliance Resource Partners · Private Sector Figure