Keep tax credits of up to $1 a gallon for low-emission transportation fuels
Energy and environment
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
Tax credits are written by Congress, so the goal itself sits with government. Corporate behavior helps at the margin: fuel producers claim this credit, decide whether to make low-emission fuels, and their advocacy shapes whether it survives. InfluenceMap found two-thirds of corporate advocacy on the Inflation Reduction Act's climate and energy provisions was supportive, and Ceres brought 20 major companies to Capitol Hill in April 2025 to defend clean economy tax credits during budget negotiations. Shareholder pressure can align more corporate lobbying behind the credits but cannot enact them. No blockade of any kind now stands here: Congress extended this credit through 2029 in the July 2025 budget law, with fuel and farm interests advocating on its side, so the outcome rests with Congress and is currently delivered.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
- Common Ground of the American People: Energy & the Environment, Program for Public Consultation / Voice of the People, survey July 2024
- US Corporate Climate Advocacy Going Into 2025, InfluenceMap, 2024-12
- Businesses return to Capitol Hill to champion clean energy tax credits as Congress debates budget reconciliation, Ceres, 2025-04
- The One Big Beautiful Bill: Impact on the IRA's Clean Energy Tax Credits, Steptoe LLP, 2025-07-23
What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Tracked 60 proposals on lobbying and political spending in the 2024 proxy season filed to ensure that corporate advocacy aligns with climate objectives, as part of its climate proposal tracking with investors.
Coordinated members who filed climate lobbying proposals asking companies to show that their direct and trade association lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement; 18 were withdrawn in 2022 after company agreements.
2 campaigns on record
Prepare an annual report on whether and how the company aligns its direct and indirect lobbying with its net zero by 2050 goal, citing Inflation Reduction Act climate-smart agriculture funding.
Result: Not approved at the May 21, 2025 meeting; percentage not stated in source.
Declaration of Voting Results by Mondelez International, MarketScreener, 2025-05
Evaluate annually and report on whether the company's direct and trade association lobbying aligns with its net zero target and the Paris Agreement, citing U.S. Chamber, Business Roundtable and NAM opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act.
With CommonSpirit Health
Result: not stated in source
Tyson reported in its February 8, 2024 results release that shareholders voted against the climate lobbying proposal.
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How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is Common Ground of the American People's, and we link to their original.
How we score dependency, in full.