Just last month, Green purchased between $150,000 and $350,000 worth of stock in LNG and oil tanker company KNOT Offshore. Not mentioned in the interview from Ukraine was Green’s millions of dollars worth of stock trades in oil and gas pipeline companies last year like Enable Midstream, Enlink Midstream, and Shell Midstream Partners. Green is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy. … was recently interviewed by National Public Radio on a trip to Kyiv along with the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), for instance, bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in a tanker company in January, according to Sludge: Several members of Congress have sought to take advantage of surging liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports by significantly increasing “their investments in energy companies, especially pipeline companies and midstream service providers that transmit fossil gas to export terminals,” wrote Moore. Journalist David Moore noted that “the fossil fuel industry rushed to link domestic gas exports with European security,” citing a recent blog post by an operative from the American Petroleum Institute (API)-Big Oil’s most powerful lobbying group-and the Wall Street Journal‘s reactionary editorial page. senators and 100 House members whose households own stock in oil and gas companies or hold other investments in the fossil fuel industry. That’s according to new reporting published Wednesday by the nonprofit investigative outlet Sludge, which previously identified at least 28 U.S. President Joe Biden has increased gas exports to Germany and surrounding countries, benefiting members of Congress who own-and are buying up more-stock in pipeline and tanker companies. Photo: Pline/Wikimedia Commons/CCĪmid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, which could have far-reaching implications for energy markets in central Europe, U.S.
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