As Donald Trump sat with some of the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago Club last month, one executive complained about how they continued to face burdensome environmental regulations despite spending $400 million to lobby the Biden administration in the last year.
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and Updated May 9, 2024 at 1:54 p.m. EDT|Published May 9, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT