Today, John Barrasso met with representatives of the oil and gas industry who paid Barrasso money in exchange for the opportunity to talk with him about legislative issues. During his time in Washington D.C., Barrasso has taken almost half a million dollars from big oil companies.

Oil drilling in a wildlife refuge, crude oil across our greatest aquifer, and greater risk of a new offshore oil spill disaster. 21 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote for this anti-environmental legislation. Their names are listed here.

A provision forcing President Obama to make a decision about unusual environmental waivers for a proposed oil pipeline was passed in the U.S. Senate today, in exchange for only two months’ extension of unemployed benefits and a delay on a decision about payroll tax cuts. In January, the same drama will begin again, and Republicans, having learned that congressional Democrats will quickly bow to pressure, will be pushing for more drastic concessions.

We name just a few of the many people from Texas working for companies related to the crude oil industry who have given money to help Sean Bielat try to get a seat in Congress. It’s a rather odd pattern, considering that Bielat isn’t running for Congress in Texas. He’s running in Massachusetts, where there are no giant oil fields.

A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.

H.R. 1938, the North American-Made Energy Security Act, would enable a pipeline to snake down from Canada into the United States, threatening a huge range of America’s sensitive ecosystems along the way. The pipeline would run through the Ogllala Aquifer, endangering a huge supply of clean water. What’s more, the oil would come from Alberta’s tar sands, which yield commercially usable oil only through an extremely expensive and inefficient process that creates a massive amount of pollution.

Who in Congress voted to increase pollution by offshore drilling operations in the Arctic? Who voted against increasing pollution?

The three Democratic senators who voted against ending government subsidies to oil companies have taken a great deal of money from oil companies. Coincidence?

The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.

A roll call of the 28 Democrats who voted with House Republicans in favor of a scheme to encourage dangerous, dirty and rushed offshore oil drilling platforms, increasing the risk of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon calamity.