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BP, Other European Companies Funding Tea Party Candidates. By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian (UK), 10/24/10. “BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favorites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama's energy agenda... An analysis of campaign finance by Climate Action Network, Europe found nearly 80% of campaign donations from a number of major European firms were directed towards senators who blocked action on climate change. These included incumbents who have been embraced by the Tea Party such as Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and the notorious climate change denier James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma. The report [PDF, 12 pp], released Monday [10/25/10], used information on the Open Secrets.org database to track what it called a co-ordinated attempt by some of Europe's biggest polluters to influence the US midterms."