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Lobbying disclosures show Chevron and Big Oil lobbying group WSPA remain top spenders in 2025 to influence lawmakers
Sacramento, CA. — New lobbying disclosures reveal the fossil fuel industry spent $7.1 million in Q3 of 2025, from July 1 through September 30 – putting the industry on track to reach its second-highest influence spending year, just behind 2024’s $38 million spend. The total lobbying and influence spending for Q1-Q3 in 2025 is over $25 million for the fossil fuel industry.
While Californians continued to struggle with sky-high utility, grocery, housing costs and fears of spiking prices at the pump, gas and oil corporations poured millions opposing California’s transition to affordable clean energy and propping up oily lawmakers. Lobbying disclosures make it clear that Big Oil is spending this money to keep Californians dependent on fossil fuels instead of saving on clean, abundant, and cost efficient energy resources like solar and wind.