Oil Lobbyist Mary Landrieu’s Foundation Brings Together Members of Congress and Corporate Execs

Her group, which held its first event earlier this year, shares an executive director with a nonprofit funded by ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical to advocate for carbon pricing legislation.

Former Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu is co-founder and co-chair of the Climate Solutions Foundation. (Naohiko Hatta / Getty Images)

Originally published at Sludge.

During her time in the Senate, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu was perhaps the oil and gas industry’s strongest ally among the Democrats. Landrieu, who was chosen to be the Energy and Natural Resour…