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Driving Denial: How Toyota’s Unholy Alliance with Climate Deniers Threatens Climate Progress - Public Citizen
Toyota is no longer the green darling that it was nearly three decades ago when it introduced the Prius.
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Over the last three electoral cycles, Toyota has become the top auto industry financier of climate deniers, with its political action committee spending $808,500 to support climate deniers, ahead of General Motors at $670,000 and more than double Ford’s expenditure of $387,500. (Chart 1)
Instead of embracing a green energy future, Toyota has aggressively lobbied to delay and weaken climate action. In 2022, InfluenceMap named Toyota the third worst company in the world–after Chevron and Exxon–for its anti-climate lobbying. It has routinely ranked as the worst automaker for its anti-climate lobbying. As InfluenceMap notes in its May 2024 scorecard, Toyota had a busy year[8]. The company once again received a D, the lowest score amongst all automakers, and was fueling opposition to climate regulations around the world. The scorecard highlights Toyota’s lobbying efforts against emissions standards in the U.S. and Australia and against EV mandates in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as Toyota’s success in weakening emissions stands in the U.S. and fuel efficiency standards in Australia.
Toyota is attempting to exert the same kind of overpowering political influence in the U.S. as it has at home. Between 2019 and 2023 it spent over $31 million just on federal lobbying. That was second only to GM and is significantly more than every other automaker. Much of that lobbying focused on weakening fuel economy and pollution standards and tailpipe emissions rules, according to lobbying records.