Pipeline company Energy Transfer LP and its CEO, Kelcy Warren, were the fossil fuel industry’s top contributors to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump during the first half of 2025, making a combined $25 million in contributions to that PAC alone.

Best known as the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline that sparked an Indigenous-led resistance movement at Standing Rock in 2016, Energy Transfer has a history of leaks , spills , safety violations , explosions , and lawsuits against activists and journalists . One week after Trump took office, Energy Transfer filed a lawsuit challenging the enforcement process at the Department of Transportation’s pipeline safety office, which in 2023 fined the company $2.5 million for an accident that left one pipeline

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