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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Downey Magallanes, the former deputy chief of staff to former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, </span><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/interior-official-shrinking-national-monuments-joins-bp-909d24e9ef28/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" border-bottom="border-bottom" px="px" solid="solid" rgb="rgb">left the department</a></b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b> in August 2018 to work for the oil giant BP.</b> Vincent DeVito, an energy advisor to Zinke, </span><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/interior-adviser-offshore-drilling-revolving-door-devito-zinke-0a5f6bb7f4e3/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit" word-break="word-break" break-word="break-word" border-bottom="border-bottom" px="px" solid="solid" rgb="rgb">similarly left</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> to join an oil and gas firm working in the Gulf of Mexico.</span>
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</font></div><div style=""><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="1" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WASHINGTON —</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;"> This month, on the recommendation of his Interior secretary, President Donald Trump </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-national-monuments-utah-proclomation_us_5a25478ee4b03350e0b7fa85" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="1" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">gutted a pair of protected national monuments in Utah</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, including coal-rich Grand Staircase-Escalante. T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">he decision followed the </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-bears-ears-review_us_59f39ffbe4b03cd20b81b2f1" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="2" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">controversial review of more than two dozen national monuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> ― a process that public records reveal to have been overseen by the daughter of<b> Frederick Palmer, the former executive of coal giant Peabody Energy</b> and a current </span><a href="https://preview.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us_5a399220e4b06d1621b0427b/Downey%20Magallanes" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">senior fellow</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> at the conservative Heartland Institute. </span></span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="2" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/downey-magallanes-4b4ba06" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="4" data-v9y="1" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Downey Magallanes</b></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>, Palmer’s daughter</b>,</span> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;">is a 2012 graduate of the<b> Georgetown University Law Center who worked for seven years as a staffer for Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and now serves as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s deputy chief of staff for policy. Magallanes was at Zinke’s side throughout his months-long monuments review. </b>And </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-01076ca_compressed.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="5" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">her personal calendar</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit;"> shows she had several one-on-one meetings with Zinke to discuss the review in the days before Aug. 24, when Zinke submitted his draft report to the White House. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="3" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">A version of that report was </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/shrink-at-least-4-national-monuments-and-modify-a-half-dozen-others-zinke-tells-trump/2017/09/17/a0df45cc-9b48-11e7-82e4-f1076f6d6152_story.html?utm_term=.d29ce562f681" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="6" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">leaked</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;"> to the media in September, and the Interior Department </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-monuments-trump-final-report_us_5a26a1f4e4b0f9f0203f32aa" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;">released</a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the final version earlier this month</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">. It calls on Trump to </span></span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-monuments-trump-final-report_us_5a26a1f4e4b0f9f0203f32aa" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">shrink or otherwise weaken protections for 10 monuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> On Dec. 4, Trump signed a pair of proclamations to <b>reduce the size of the two Utah sites by a combined 2 million acres</b>. The 1.87 million-acre </span></span><a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/utah/grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">, the largest land monument in the country, was </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/12/04/presidential-proclamation-modifying-grand-staircase-escalante-national" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">cut roughly in half</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">. The boundary of </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-monuments-native-americans_us_58643464e4b0d9a5945a06ac" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:3;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Bears Ears National Monument</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">, a 1.35 million-acre landscape named after a pair of buttes and home to thousands of Native American archeological and cultural sites, was shrunk by about 85 percent. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="4" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The move, which opens the door for mining, drilling and other industrial development on public land that has been off limits to such activities, was quickly met with numerous lawsuits from Native American tribes and conservation groups. Meanwhile, groups like the <b>Heartland Institute, </b>a right-wing think tank that’s </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-red-team_us_59efa14ce4b0bf1f8836893e" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">loaded with climate change deniers</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> and furiously promotes the use of fossil fuels, </span><a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/press-release-heartland-institute-experts-react-to-trump-rolling-back-federal-land-grab-in-utah" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:4;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">rejoiced</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. </span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="5" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Interior Department schedules and visitor logs make clear that Magallanes was a key figure in the agency’s review. She was </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?427532-101/interior-secretary-zinke-previews-antiquities-act-review-audio" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">on hand during a press call</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> in April, when Zinke first announced details of Trump’s </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-executive-order-national-monuments_us_58ff643de4b0b6f6014ae656?mri" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">executive</span></a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-executive-order-offshore-drilling-us_us_59026653e4b05c39767d41fe" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">orders</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> that initially threatened the future of </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-list-monuments-under-review-announces-first-ever-formal" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="17" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">27 national monuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">. During the briefing, Zinke introduced Magallanes as his adviser and said she was there to “help me answer questions if I cannot field them.”</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="6" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" roboto="Roboto" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 705px; max-width: 720px; min-width: initial;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Magallanes </span><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-00658ch.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:6;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="18" data-v9y="1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">traveled with Zinke to several monuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">, including Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears, as part of his monuments “listening tour.” While at Grand Staircase-Escalante, Zinke tweeted a photo of himself and others gazing at an exposed coal seam. </span></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/interior-adviser-national-monuments-bp-2599866546.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/interior-adviser-national-monuments-bp-2599866546.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior Adviser to Join BP After Pushing to Open National Monuments to Fossil Fuel Development</font></h1></div><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2599866546" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="Interior Adviser to Join BP After Pushing to Open National Monuments to Fossil Fuel Development" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="body-description" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman" /><p style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A Department of the Interior (DOI) official who played an important role in opening <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/public-lands" style="text-decoration-line: none;">public lands</a> to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/fossil-fuels" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fossil fuel</a> interests has left the federal government to accept a job at <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/bp" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">BP</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/top-interior-staffer-who-backed-shrinking-national-monuments-to-join-bp/2018/08/27/ab241d0a-aa42-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22cafb167d70" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">The Washington Post reported Monday</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former DOI Deputy Chief of Staff Downey Magallanes led the review that resulted in Secretary of the Interior <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ryan-zinke" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>'s <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-utah-national-monuments-2514084239.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">plan to shrink</a> the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/bears-ears" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bears Ears</a> and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah by 85 and 46 percent respectively, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/interior-official-shrinking-national-monuments-joins-bp-909d24e9ef28/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Think Progress pointed out</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Her prior work on behalf of oil, gas and coal, her family's ties to the coal industry, and the fact that she is headed to BP all point in one direction: that she came to Interior with an agenda to promote fossil fuel development over the interest of the American public," <a href="https://suwa.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance</a> legal director Stephen Bloch told The Washington Post in an email.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Documents made public in March and June confirmed that allowing access to <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a>, oil and gas reserves was a large part of the decision to reduce the monuments' size, as was enabling mining, Think Progress reported.</b></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Magallanes also worked on <b>regulatory reform and <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/offshore-oil-drilling" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">offshore oil drilling</a>,</b> according to The Washington Post.<b> Her father worked as a lobbyist for Peabody Energy Corp. for 14 years,</b> according to <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/403969-interior-staffer-who-oversaw-push-to-shrink-national-monuments-to" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Hill</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/donald-trump" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a> administration's ethics pledge bans former employees from lobbying either their former agencies or anyone in the executive branch for five years after departure, but anonymous sources told The Washington Post that Magallanes will work with Congress</b>. BP has confirmed she will be part of its government affairs team.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Magallanes met three times with BP officials between Jan. 30 and Aug. 31, 2017 while working for DOI, according to an official calendar obtained using the Freedom of Information Act.</span></p><p style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On March 16, 2017 she met with BP government and regulatory affairs division officials and on April 25 she met with both BP Exploration (Alaska) and members of the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style="">Western Energy Alliance</b> including Colorado-based BP government affairs official Sam Knaizer.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Magallanes' departure was announced by E&E news Aug. 24, according to Think Progress.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Downey was an incredible asset and I trusted her to carry out some of the Administration's highest priority projects," Zinke said in a statement reported by The Washington Post. "She will be missed in our office and I wish her all the best."</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Magallanes also spoke with excitement about her work at BP, which will begin after Labor Day.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"I am grateful to Secretary Zinke and President Trump for giving me the chance to serve in the Department of the Interior," she said in an email to The Washington Post. "I look forward to this incredible new opportunity with BP."</p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, Native American and environmental groups <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-shrinking-bears-ears-2515965614.html" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">are fighting in court</a> to reverse the shrinking of the Utah monuments.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We'll be working to undo that mischief long after she's gone," Bloch told The Washington Post.</p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[twit]</span>
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