Less than 1 percent of television ads for House and Senate midterm races have focused on the environment — even as recent polling shows that voters believe climate change should be a priority this election cycle.

Despite yet another summer of destructive storms and wildfires intensified by global warming, only 0.8 percent of television ads in congressional races have focused on the environment, according to data from AdImpact. Democrats and Republicans have focused similar levels of attention on the environment — 0.9 percent and 0.7 percent of their ads, respectively.

Although 80 percent of voters support a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies — a way of recuperating money by taxing surging profits — candidates are not running on holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Instead they are ceding the narrative on environment and climate change to oil and gas companies that have gone on the offensive — spending enormously and pouring millions into campaigns up and down the ballot to protect their profits.