O’Dea Super PAC Dirty Donor Fined Millions for Harmful Air Pollution
O’Dea “has rejected the scientific consensus on man-made climate change”
A new report from Colorado Times Recorder reveals that harmful polluters are backing Joe O’Dea’s senate campaign. An O’Dea super PAC donor was fined $3.25 million for failing to repair leaks and contaminating the air with toxic emissions that affect Coloradans’ health and contribute to climate change. However, O’Dea disagrees with the majority of Coloradans and he rejects “the scientific consensus on man-made climate change.”
Read more below from Colorado Times Recorder and Colorado Newsline:
On Monday state and federal environmental agencies fined a Denver-based natural gas processor operating in Weld County $3.25 million for failing to detect and repair leaks at its facilities that produced harmful air emissions.
The company, DCP Operating Company, also contributed $50,000 to the U.S. Senate campaign of Denver businessman Joe O’Dea earlier this year by way of the American Policy Fund, a super-PAC supporting O’Dea.
O’Dea has publicly stated that while he does believe global warming exists, he wants to increase oil and gas drilling. O’Dea has complained about the dearth of oil and gas production in the U.S. with statements that misleadingly connect gas prices to environmental regulations and ignore the effects oil and gas production has on global warming.
O’Dea has also made false claims questioning whether global warming is caused by human activity. For decades, the scientific consensus is that human activity is the dominant cause of climate change.
Colorado Newsline: Where Colorado candidates stand on climate change
Denver construction CEO and first-time candidate Joe O’Dea has rejected the scientific consensus on manmade climate change, falsely claiming in a Denver7 interview that “there’s a debate there still to be had” on the extent to which human activity contributes to global warming.
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In a June primary debate, O’Dea ruled out a shift away from fossil fuels for the “next 100 years,” a position at odds with IPCC scientists, who have warned policymakers to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of continued warming.