Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials

Robert Pender, one of the co-founders of Venture Global, speaks at the CERAWeek conference in Houston in March 2019.Photograph: F Carter/Bloomberg via Getty Images Two fossil-fuel billionaires with close ties to Donald Trump bought millions of shares in the company they co-founded just days after a meeting with senior White House officials, who then issued a key regulatory permit that helped expand the company’s fortunes in Europe. Robert Pender, an energy lawyer, and Michael Sabel, a former investment ba ...