Influence Watch: "Grassroots" campaigns keep spending on low-carbon fuel standard

Culp's lawyer gives money back; Benton mailer campaign was tiny

Two campaigns with friendly-sounding local names and big money from elsewhere continued to spend for and against the proposed low-carbon fuel standard last month.

Affordable Fuel Washington, a long-running creation of the Western States Petroleum Association — money from major oil companies like Phillips 66 and Marathon, which both have refineries in Wa…