Texans will vote this fall on who should regulate the state’s oil and gas industry, one of the biggest fossil fuel industries in the world. Credit: Gabriel C. Pérez / KUT News
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“We found that 66% of the commissioners’ campaign contributions came from the same companies they oversee on the commission,” Virginia Palacios, head of the watchdog group Commission Shift, told KUT. “We looked side by side at different decision-making moments, and we found companies giving right before or after a key decision-making moment or while the commission was deciding a contested case that they were involved with.”
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