Scott Sheffield, then-CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, in 2023.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, talks to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during the Republican National Convention on July 17.

Texas’ oil and gas billionaires are mobilizing to stop Vice President Kamala Harris from becoming president, and for one father-and-son duo, it’s personal.

Attack dogs from the American Petroleum Institute and the Texas Oil and Gas Association have slammed President Joe Biden and his administration. Never mind that under Biden, the United States has produced more oil and gas than ever in the nation’s history.

Taking the throne as the world’s largest energy producer is not enough for these conservative businesspeople. They want higher profits, even if it hurts consumers and emissions from their products overheat the planet.

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My colleague James Osborne recently reported from Washington on why the industry hates Harris. As the California attorney general, she prosecuted oil and gas firms for criminal negligence and supported a lawsuit accusing Exxon Mobil of misleading investors on the financial impact of climate change.

As a U.S. senator, she wanted to ban hydraulic fracturing, the rock-shattering technique that breaks oil and gas........

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