Alan McCormick has tweeted articles questioning climate science and chairs a foundation that has received funding from fossil fuel interests.

Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse.

There are clear connections between the fossil fuel industries and the politicians who are both stalling action on climate change and diminishing democracy – and it's a dangerous shift, argues an international studies professor in her new book.

Pouring money into dirty energy not only contradicts scientific consensus, the lawmakers wrote, "it also harms communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and threatens financial stability at large."