Univ of Colorado/CSU

Two of the professors under investigation have a CU Boulder connection: Pielke, a professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, and Steven F. Hayward, who now teaches at Pepperdine University but spent the 2013-14 academic year as CU’s first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy.

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...beckwith Francis J. Beckwith is professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University. This piece was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.

So, in the fall I brought George Yancey (University of North Texas) and Patrick Deneen (University of Notre Dame) to campus. Yancey spoke on “Conservatives in Academia: Is There Bias Against Them?” while Deneen gave a talk on “The End of Liberalism: Why the World Is Falling Apart.”

In the spring, the university hosted lectures by Elizabeth Corey (Baylor University), who spoke on “Can Conservatives Support Diversity?” and author Rod Dreher, who discussed his New York Times best-seller, *The Benedict Option*.

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Getches-Wilkinson Center

School of Law

The Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (GWC) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Colorado Law School.

An unmatched reputation in environmental law

Ranked consistently among the very best in the nation, Colorado Law is known for its renowned faculty and curriculum addressing environmental, energy, and natural resources law—and has a longstanding reputation for academic excellence, experiential learning, and fostering innovative problem-solving.

Founded in 1978, the Getches-Green Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Clinic is one of the country's first environmental law clinics. Originally, clinic students worked under the supervision of staff attorneys at the National Wildlife Federation. In 2010, the clinic moved in-house to the law school, where the clinic continues its mission of training future attorneys through the representation of clients in environmental cases.

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LAWS 7209-801: Natural Resources & Environmental Law Clinic

Instructor(s): Sarah Matsumoto

2022 Instructor(s): Marta Darby

2020

Instructor(s): Jonathan Skinner-Thompson

Jonathan Skinner-Thompson

Associate Professor of Law

Affiliate Faculty, Graduate Certificate in Environmental Justice

Full Faculty Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/law/jonathan-skinner-thompson-0

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2018 Instructor(s): Karin Sheldon

2016

Instructor(s): Audrey Huang

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In recent years, student attorneys have worked on matters such as:

• A lawsuit in federal district court involving off-road vehicle (ORV) use on roadless areas within a Colorado national forest;
• An appeal before the Interior Board of Land Appeals involving natural gas development on sensitive wildlife habitat in Wyoming;
• A federal district court case involving a proposed coal mine in Wyoming;
• Comments on a proposed coal lease in western Colorado;
• Protests of oil and gas leases issued by the Bureau of Land Management; and
• A petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking to list a species under the Endangered Species Act.

Public Lands in Public Hands Fireside Chat with Secretary David Bernhardt

Public Lands in Public Hands Fireside Chat with Secretary David Bernhardt

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Fireside Chat with Secretary David Bernhardt, former Secretary of the Department of the Interior "Public Lands in Public Hands – Reflections on 50 Years of Retention Policy" on Thurs, Oct 23rd and Fri, Oct 24th University of Colorado. Public Lands in Public Hands: Reflections on 50 Years of Retention Policy The Federal Land Policy and Management Act marked a new chapter in the history of public lands in the United States. In that 1976 law, Congress declared a national policy that public lands be retained in federal ownership and control for the benefit of the American people. Over the last 50 years, that retention policy has led to far reaching consequences for people and places across the country.

Today, public lands provide critical support for economic, environmental, social, and cultural values, contributing to the vitality of both urban and rural communities. Yet, the nation still struggles with the effects of dispossession and forced removal of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands, most of which remain in the hands of the Federal government. Retention of public lands also presents certain challenges to states, localities, and private property owners. Despite 50 years of retention policy and widespread public support for keeping public lands in public hands, the future of public lands remains uncertain.

Some want the federal government to sell off federal public lands or give them to the States. Others are keen to defend and celebrate the retention policy and their love of public lands. The legal landscape has also changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Public land planning has proved to be a mixed bag, but it engages the public on the critical issues facing public land planners, including resource development, grazing policy, land conservation, endangered species conservation, and the protection of cultural resources, among many other things. Modernizing the decision-making process has also taken center stage, with debates about strategies for making faster and smarter decisions. Adaptive management has also entered the public lands lexicon, although it sometimes seems more aspirational than real.

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The Honorable David Bernhardt served as the 53^rd Secretary of the Interior. David, who grew up in Rifle Colorado. He is the only person to be confirmed by the U. S. Senate to serve as secretary, deputy secretary, and solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior in its 176 year history.

As Secretary, David focused his efforts to further conservation stewardship, expand opportunities for access to hunting and fishing on public lands, drove regulatory change, and worked to enhance our nation’s energy independence. Additionally, he led the Trump administration’s effort to enact the Great American Outdoors Act and President Trump tasked him with playing a key role on initiatives such as addressing the threat to the domestic supply chain from reliance on critical minerals from foreign adversaries.

As deputy secretary at Interior, David drove meaningful regulatory reform; modernized business processes related to permitting authorizations and denials; and developed one of the most diverse leadership teams in the department’s history.

Currently, David is engaged in several business ventures, serves as an independent board member, and is active in various nonprofit endeavors.

Finally, David is the author of “YOU REPORT TO ME, Accountability For the Failing Administrative State,” published in 2023.

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The Getches-Wilkinson Center and Center of the American West co-hosted the 16th Annual Schultz Lecture in Energy on February 25, 2025 with special guest, Tommy Beaudreau, former Deputy Secretary of the Interior.

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David first came to Colorado in 1970 as executive director for the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), a national nonprofit Indian-interest law firm.

Colorado Attorney General’s office he had the opportunity to work for David Getches.

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Chris Winter — Our Children's Trust

Chris Winter is an attorney and advocate with 25 years of experience in the field of natural resources and environmental law. Over the course of his career, he has developed an expertise in public land management, water resources, environmental justice, climate change, and fossil fuel infrastructure projects, and he has extensive experience working with and representing Indigenous communities.

In 2001, he co-founded a non-profit law center based in Portland, Oregon that represented public interest clients in federal and state courts across the Pacific Northwest. Over the next 17 years, he developed a reputation for winning difficult cases on behalf of grassroots organizations facing daunting odds and formidable opposition. For a decade, he represented Alaska Native organizations in the U.S. Arctic in their successful work to protect their subsistence activities from the impacts of offshore oil and gas exploration. He also served as lead counsel in Rosemere Neighborhood Ass’n v. U.S. E.P.A., which brought national attention to the EPA’s disappointing record of investigating citizen complaints under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. He has litigated and won dozens of cases in federal and state courts on a wide range of issues.

He also served as Executive Director of Access Fund, a national advocacy organization working at the intersection of outdoor recreation and public land management, spearheading its work to restore Bears Ears National Monument, promote human powered outdoor recreation, and conserve public lands....

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Executive Director

Getches-Wilkinson Center · Full-time

Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Boulder, Colorado, United States · On-site

Executive Director

Access Fund · Full-time

Jan 2019 - Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Boulder, Colorado

I led a national advocacy organization representing the climbing and mountaineering community on issues of sustainable access, land conservation, climate change, and stewardship education. I worked with major donors and foundations to support a $4 million/year budget and partnered with Congressional and agency leaders in Washington, DC to ensure that we can sustainably enjoy and protect public lands for generations to come. I also led a diverse and distributed team through the challenges of COVID and placed a premium on caring for people and building community.… more

Co-Executive Director

Crag Law Center

2001 – 2018

Portland, Oregon

I co-founded and co-directed a client-focused law center that supports community efforts to protect and sustain the Pacific Northwest's natural legacy. I represented citizens, conservation groups, Tribes, local governments and recreational clubs across Oregon, Washington and Alaska at all levels of the federal judicial system including the U.S. Supreme Court. Along the way, I contributed to numerous conservation victories protecting landscapes like the U.S. Arctic, Columbia River basin, Tongass National Forest, and Cascade mountains.… more

Adjunct Professor

Lewis & Clark Law School

2007 – 2011

Portland, Oregon

Served as an adjunct professor teaching an upper level seminar in Forest Law and Policy at one of the top environmental law programs in the country; Recognized for excellence in teaching based on student evaluations… more

Associate

Stoel Rives LLP

1998 – 2001

Portland, Oregon

Associate attorney in the environmental practice group focusing on environmental remediation and pollution control compliance.

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I’m incredibly sad and frustrated that President Trump once again attacked Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. The two proclamations have cut almost 3 million acres of irreplaceable public lands from the two national monuments in southern Utah. To add insult to injury, the proclamations state plainly that they are intended to open these areas to extraction of uranium, silver, copper and other minerals. Are we really prepared to sacrifice these special places?

Both monuments are wildly popular with the American people, but profit and power are potent intoxicants. It is difficult to remain hopeful when we are witnessing an unprecedented attack on our natural environment, but it wasn’t that long ago that President Biden and Secretary Haaland joined together in 2021 to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. The American people have the power to change the direction of the country.

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...MEMbers were appointed to the Bears Ears National Monument Advisory Committee by the

Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, on April 11, 2019. Initial terms are staggered so they do not

expire at the same time. Open periods for new nominations will be announced in the federal register.

Representative Category Member Term expires

Local Elected Official Bruce Adams April 11, 2021

State Government Gordon Larsen April 11, 2021

Paleontology Brooks Britt April 11, 2020

Archaeology Lee Bennett April 11, 2022

Conservation Miles Moretti April 11, 2020

Livestock Grazers/Permittees Gail Johnson April 11, 2022

Tribal Concerns Alfred Ben April 11, 2022

Ryan Benally April 11, 2021

Developed Recreation Jared Berrett April 11, 2021

Dustin Randall April 11, 2022

Dispersed Recreation Danny Flannery April 11, 2022

Private Landowners Zeb Dalton April 11, 2020

Local Business Owners Adam Redd April 11, 2020

Public at Large Jami Bayles April 11, 2021

Kelly Pehrson April 11, 2020

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2. Courthouse News Service
3. https://www.courthousenews.com › wp-content › uploads › 2024 › 09 › zeb-dalton-v-joseph-biden-order-us-district-of-utah.pdf

The United States District Court District of Utah

1. This action stems from two cases: Consolidated Plaintiffs against President Biden, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Chief of the Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Land 15 Id. at 981. 16 Dalton v. Specter, 511 U.S. 462, 476 (1994).
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4. freerangereport.com
5. https://freerangereport.com › husband-of-old-broad-enviro-pleads-no-contest-to-charges-stemming-from-attempted-cattle-destruction

Husband of "Old Broad" enviro pleads "no contest" to charges stemming ...

1. The end of a long and convoluted legal battle, the brief trial brought great relief to Zane Odell, who was with Zeb Dalton in the Monticello courtroom at the time Franklin took the plea deal.
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4. NRDC
5. https://www.nrdc.org › sites › default › files › 2023-05 › dalton-plaintiffs-opposition-to-motion-to-dismiss-monuments-20230414.pdf

In the United States District Court for The District of Utah - Nrdc

1. Just consider the 100-plus pages of (single-spaced) NEPA filings that have already been put together for Zeb's request to build some water wells and fences.111And now, as Zeb has explained—and ...
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4. Bizapedia
5. https://www.bizapedia.com › ut › dark-canyon-range-land-llc.html

DARK CANYON RANGE LAND, LLC in Blanding, UT - Bizapedia

1. The Registered Agent on file is Zeb Dalton, located at 543 E 500 S Blanding, UT 84511. Tiffany Dalton is the sole principal on record and serves as Manager and is associated with an address at P.O. Box 72 Blanding, UT 84511. The entity is scheduled to expire on October 31, 2024.
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4. Bizapedia
5. https://www.bizapedia.com › ut › t-y-cattle-company-llc.html

T Y CATTLE COMPANY, LLC in Blanding, UT - Bizapedia

1. The Registered Agent on file is Zeb Dalton, located at 543 E 500 S Blanding, UT 84511. The company's leadership includes Tiffany Dalton, who serves as Manager and is associated with an address at P.O. Box 72 Blanding, UT 84511 and Zeb Dalton, who serves as Manager and is associated with an address at P.O. Box 72 Blanding, UT 84511.
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4. canyonechojournal.com
5. https://canyonechojournal.com › 2019 › 04 › 10 › conservationist-rose-chilcoat-sues-san-juan-county-attorney-and-rancher-for-pressing-charges-in-gategate-case

Conservationist Rose Chilcoat Sues San Juan County Attorney and a ...

1. The couple was stopped by Odell and fellow rancher Zeb Dalton on April 3, 2017, two days after the gate closure, and was detained on a county road until a sheriff's deputy arrived. Later that month, Laws filed a number of misdemeanor and felony charges against both Franklin and Chilcoat.
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4. freerangereport.com
5. https://freerangereport.com › anti-grazing-enviros-charged-with-cattle-endangerment-accuse-ranchers-of-kidnapping

Anti-grazing enviros charged with cattle endangerment accuse ranchers ...

1. Last week Zeb Dalton and Zane Odell received a subpoena from Kendall Laws the San Juan County District Attorney ordering them to appear on December 3, 2018 for an Evidentiary Hearing as witnesses in the case of State of Utah vs, Mark Kevin Franklin. In April of 2017, Chilcoat and her husband were caught endangering livestock.
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4. MyLife.com
5. https://www.mylife.com › zebediah-dalton › e156171340422

Zebediah G Dalton, 47 - Blanding, UT - Reputation & Contact Details

1. View FREE Public Profile & Reputation for Zebediah Dalton in Blanding, UT - Court Records | Photos | Address, Email & Phone | Reviews | $30 - $39,999 Net Worth
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4. Courthouse News Service
5. https://www.courthousenews.com › wp-content › uploads › 2024 › 09 › zeb-dalton-v-joseph-biden-reply-brief-10th-circuit.pdf

DOCUMENTS.pdf - Courthouse News Service

1. The Supreme Court described the public domain as the land owned by the Government, mostly in the West, that was available for sale, entry, and settlement under the homestead laws, or other disposition under the general body of land laws.
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4. The Salt Lake Tribune
5. https://archive.sltrib.com › article.php?id=5423662&itype=CMSID

New felony charges added in gate-closing case against Utah activist

1. The confrontation with the ranchers, Odell and Zeb Dalton, occurred three days after the fence closing, when Chilcoat and Franklin stopped by the corral on their way home from a weekend trip to Valley of the Gods. Odell recognized their truck and used his vehicle to block them, while police were called.
2. Generate answer for Private Landowner Zeb Dalton

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2. Democracy Forward
3. https://democracyforward.org › work › regulations › requesting-interior-ig-investigate-bernhardts-decision-to-stack-bears-ears-monument-committee-with-monument-opponents

Requesting Interior IG investigate Bernhardt's decision to stack Bears ...

1. Interior Secretary Bernhardt stacked the Bears Ears National Monument Advisory Committee with individuals determined to strip territory and critical protections from the Utah monument.
4. ThinkProgress
5. https://archive.thinkprogress.org › interior-scandals-bernhardt-investigation-bears-ears-ethics-violations-b095ba71cea8

Scandals mount under David Bernhardt just two weeks after being ...

1. But Zinke's policy legacy is also living on under Bernhardt. One of the former secretary's most controversial actions as secretary remains the decision to dramatically shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, two Utah national monuments, the largest reduction in U.S. history.
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4. Democracy Forward
5. https://democracyforward.org › news › press-releases › democracy-forward-requests-interior-ig-investigate-bernhardts-decision-to-stack-bears-ears-monument-committee-with-monument-opponents

Democracy Forward Requests Interior IG Investigate Bernhardt's Decision ...

1. Washington, D.C. — Today, Democracy Forward requested that the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior investigate whether Secretary David Bernhardt violated federal law by stacking the Bears Ears National Monument Advisory Committee with individuals determined to strip territory and critical

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Liza Getches grew up in Boulder and returned to her hometown shortly after her dad, David’s passing in 2011. Liza has two sons, David and Owen Verner, and spends as much time outside with them, and her dog Lucy, as possible. Liza is a seasoned trial attorney and a partner at Shoemaker Ghiselli + Schwartz LLC, where she represents clients in a broad array of complex commercial disputes with a focus on employment litigation.

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Davis Graham

Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

Bjork Lindley Little PC

10 yrs 2 mos

Denver, Colorado

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• Jul 2011 - Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos
• Associate
• Nov 2005 - Jun 2011 · 5 yrs 8 mos

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U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, DC

Oct 2004 - Oct 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

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The head of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) from October 2004 to October 2005 was Gale A. Norton, who served as the Secretary of the Interior during that time.

Department of the Interior Wikipedia

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Justice Alex J. Martinez, Colorado Supreme Court

Sep 2003 - Sep 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

Katie Schroder is a partner at Davis Graham in Denver, Colorado. Her practice focuses on uses of federally owned land and, particularly, energy development on federal lands. Katie counsels clients on agency compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act, and Federal Land Policy and Management Act. She has extensive experience with the Endangered Species Act and advises on federal oil and gas leasing and royalty issues

Prior to entering private practice, Katie was an attorney-advisor with the Office of the Solicitor within the Department of the Interior.

At a time when data centers, power demand, and grid infrastructure are the forefront of the national conversation, the Foundation's program on behind the meter power supply solutions will be extremely timely and insightful. The program is in just three weeks - register now](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fnrel/)

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Join The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law on October 8-9, in Denver, Colorado for our Special Institute on Meeting the Demand: Behind the Meter, Microgrids, and Other Creative Power Supply Solutions. Register now before the early bird rates expire on September 23rd!

A highlight of the program will be our panel on Curtailment Problems and Solutions. This panel will be moderated by Suedeen Kelly, Partner with Jenner & Block, and will include Graham Jesmer, Esq., Senior Regulatory Counsel with ISO New England Inc., Mark J. Stanisz, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Compliance Counsel with PJM Interconnection , Paul Suskie, Executive Vice President and General Counsel with Southwest Power Pool, and Kari Valley, Managing Assistant General Counsel with Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO).… more

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$279 billion.

That’s the reported value of Meta’s future data center lease commitments.

The more interesting story, from a real estate perspective, is what that number tells us about the evolution of the data center market.

AI is turning power into real estate value. The race to build AI infrastructure is driving unprecedented demand for sites with available power, reliable connectivity, cooling capacity, and a path to construction. And as the scale of these projects grows, the leases supporting them are becoming far more than traditional real estate documents. They are incorporating infrastructure agreements, development agreements, and long-term risk-allocation mechanisms rolled into one.

For developers, operators, and their counsel, that means the critical questions are changing:

→ What happens when power delivery is delayed?

→ Who bears the risk of utility and interconnection constraints?

→ How do you structure rent commencement when the facility can’t operate at full capacity?

→ How do you future-proof a 15- or 20-year lease against rapidly evolving AI technology and power densities?

→ And how do you allocate billions of dollars of infrastructure and development risk before the first tenant ever turns on a server?

The next generation of data center leases will require lawyers to understand not just real estate, but power, infrastructure, construction, technology, and the economics of AI. That is what makes this market so fascinating.

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Davis Graham Legal Alert: A Bigger Blanket: FERC Moves to Expand Streamlined Authorization for Gas Infrastructure by RJ Colwell

Read more: https://lnkd.in/gGbd7YtR

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Scott Miller

• Senior Regional Director, Southwest, The Wilderness Society
• ADVISORY COUNCIL

As Senior Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (2003-2012), Scott conceived, drafted, negotiated, and influenced some of the most significant public lands, energy, and natural resources laws and policies since the turn of the century, including substantial portions of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and scores of others. As Senior Regional Director for the Wilderness Society (2013-present), Scott has played a critical role in major federal executive and legislative initiatives, including the designation a number of national monuments, wilderness areas, and special management areas, and the formulation, drafting, and passage of numerous federal and state public land and natural resources laws. In 2022, Scott was appointed as a member of the national Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission by the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Homeland Security.

As an Honors Program Attorney in the Department of the Interior's Office of the Solicitor in Washington, D.C. (1998-2003), he advised Secretaries Bruce Babbitt and Gail Norton, along with many senior agency officials, on a range of legal, litigation, and policy issues in public land, natural resources, and Indian law.

Scott is frequently consulted by Members of Congress and their staff, agency officials, practitioners, academics, and advocates for his expertise on public land and natural resources law, policy, and management, including legislative drafting, strategy, and history, forest management, wildfire, litigation, and administrative processes. Before attending law school, Scott practiced marine biology, researching marine mammal populations in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and Alaska. He has served as the Chair of the Advisory Council for the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.

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State Bar investigation

On October 4, 2021, a bipartisan group of attorneys, including two former federal judges and two former justices of the California Supreme Court, filed a complaint with the State Bar of California asking for an investigation of Eastman relating to "his representation of former President Donald J. Trump in efforts to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election."[116][117] In March 2022, the State Bar of California announced that since September 2021, it had been investigating claims of possible violations of law and ethics rules by Eastman.[118] Eastman's attorney said he expected Eastman to be exonerated.[119]

Repercussions at universities

On January 9, 2021, the chairman of Chapman's board of trustees and two other members (including former Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez) called on the university's president and provost and the law school's dean "to promptly take action against Eastman for his role in the events of Jan. 6." Eastman responded that he was speaking two miles away from the Capitol building.[120][121] Four days later,Chapman announced that Eastman had agreed to retire from the university, and the university's president, Daniele C. Struppa, said that Eastman and the university had "agreed not to engage in legal actions of any kind, including any claim of defamation that may currently exist, as both parties move forward".[122]

Eastman published a statement the next day saying that those who publicly condemned him "have created such a hostile environment for me that I no longer wish to be a member of the Chapman faculty, and am therefore retiring from my position, effective immediately." He said he would continue with his Spring 2021 position as Visiting Professor ofConservative Thought and Policy at the University of Coloradoand intended to then devote full-time effort to his position as director of theClaremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.[121][123]

The University of Colorado cancelled Eastman's Spring 2021 courses due to low enrollment.[124] The university also revoked some of Eastman's public-facing duties but permitted him to conduct scholarship.[125][[77]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman#cite_note-:1-77)

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On January 7, 2021, Eastman edited this Wikipedia article to portray his post-election role in a more favorable light. His editing was reverted due to conflict-of-interest rules of Wikipedia, and on January 9 he appealed on the article's talk page, where some changes were approved but others were denied.[126]

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_G._Martin_Center_for_Academic_Renewal

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, formerly the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, is a right-wing 501(c)3 nonprofit and associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN).[[1]](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_G._Martin_Center_for_Academic_Renewal#cite_note-1) The organization along with the John William Pope Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization that provides funding to many SPN and other right wing organizations, is underwritten by Art Pope.

The James Martin Center was founded by the John Locke Foundation in 2003 as the Pope Center, changing its name at the beginning of 2017. The organization aims to add conservatives to the faculty of public universities. Its vision for "improving" universities is:[[2]](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/James_G._Martin_Center_for_Academic_Renewal#cite_note-about-2)

• Increase the diversity of ideas taught, debated, and discussed on campus;
• Encourage respect for the institutions that underlie economic prosperity and freedom of action and conscience;
• Increase the quality of teaching and students’ commitment to learning so that they graduate with strong literacy and fundamental knowledge;
• Encourage cost-effective administration and governance.

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Bradley Foundation internal documents reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal a concerted effort by the organization to delegitimize climate science, while promoting fossil fuel energy development in the United States.

An analysis of Bradley’s climate-related activities shows that the foundation has made significant grants to support energy policy think tanks, attack-dog groups that target environmentalists, and efforts to discredit climate science.

A 2013 internal foundation document details how Bradley “instructed staff to explore options…to make more energy-related grants.” The document also notes that the Board gave a “terminal grant” of $263,591 to the Sand County Foundation (SCF), which previously administered the Bradley Fund for the Environment.

The documents do not reveal Bradley’s motivation in splitting from SCF, but they do outline a serious effort to promote fossil fuel industry interests at the expense of the environment.

CENTERS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL AND FOSSIL FUEL DEVELOPMENT

As part of its push to support studies and public relations to cast doubt on mounting scientific evidence on climate change, Bradley has focused its resources on “Energy Policy Centers,” many of which are housed in “Bradley-supported” State Policy Network (SPN) “think tanks.” SPN is a web of 156 right-wing groups in 49 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, and the UK that receives funding from the billionaire Koch brothers, the Bradley Foundation, and the Roe Foundation, as well as many multi-national corporations.

The examined documents show that the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment (CEPE) at the **Manhattan Institute**for Policy Research (MIPR), a member of SPN, received a total of $500,000 for its Center, with another $200,000 distributed in 2016.(Manhattan Institute for Policy Research GPR, February 23, 2016)CEPE works to promote fossil fuel development despite the devastating effects of climate change. A background document on CEPE states its goal clearly: “The Center’s research and public education activity aims at demonstrating that the United States is poised to reap substantial economic benefits in the form of job creation, lower gasoline and electricity prices, and increased productivity provided public policies allow companies to access valuable energy resources and distribute them at home and abroad.”

A recommendation by Bradley staff on the Manhattan Institute’s 2016 grant proposal specifically states that CEPE is worth funding because, “They have succeeded in identifying and publicizing so many of the falsehoods that surround energy and the environment.”(Manhattan Institute for Policy Research GPR, February 23, 2016)Anexample of this “success” can be found in the work of CEPE senior fellow Mark Mills, who is recognized as originating the idea that North America can surpass the Middle East as the largest energy supplier in the world.(Manhattan Institute for Policy Research GPR, November 12, 2013)

TheEnergy Policy Center(EPC) at another SPN “think tank”, theIndependence Institute,received $195,000 from the Bradley Foundation between 2012 and 2016.

Bradley documents examined show that EPC’s purpose is to “consciously counter-balance former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s environmental think tank” at Colorado State University, which promotes a “New Energy Economy.”

Bradley considers EPC to be highly successful in fighting local and federal environmental initiatives. The Bradley documents note that EPC was a “key coalition partner” in preempting local bans on fracking in Colorado, and that it “has developed a toolkit for policymakers, attorneys general, and other conservative state think tanks to help them push back against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.”(Independence Institute GPR, June 2, 2015)

In addition to these two centers, Bradley has funded the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an “associate member” of SPN, and the Center for Energy Innovation and Independence at Consumers’ Research.

CEE is led by the prominent climate change denier Myron Ebell, who steered Trump’s EPA transition team. Ebell also chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which brings together right-wing activists and scholars for monthly meetings. The coalition was established on May 6, 1997, “to dispel the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific and risk analysis.”

CEI was long tied to tobacco disinformation campaigns, but is now a leading organization in the movement to discredit climate science.

Bradley does not mention how much of its funding to CEI was designated for CEE operations. Between 1986 and 2015, Bradley Foundation gave $2.2 million to CEI, the majority of which was “to support general operations.” (Competitive Enterprise Institute GPR, June 2, 2015).

The Center for Energy Innovation and Independence received $250,000 from Bradley in 2013 to get the new group off the ground.According to a background document, the group “will closely monitor federal environmental regulations and potentially lay the foundation for multi-state litigation against them, similar to those actions in the Obamacare and Dodd-Frank lawsuits, of which aggressive (Scott) Pruitt was and is a part.” Pruitt is the former AG of Oklahoma and recently resigned as the EPA Administrator under Trump.

SMEAR CAMPAIGNS AND FUNDING EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT CLIMATE SCIENCE

At the same time Bradley rolled out funding for “Energy Policy Centers,” it was doling out cash to discredit environmental organizations and climate change science.

A grant proposal record for theCenter for Consumer Freedom(CCF), a front group created by the close Bradley allyRick Berman, details anorganized effort to weaken the credibility of well-respected, national environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club, the National Resources Defense Council, and Food and Water Watch.(The Center for Consumer Freedom GPR, November 12, 2013)Berman also foundedBerman and Company, a notorious Washington, D.C.-based corporate lobbying and PR company known for creating numerous corporate “front groups” and astroturf propaganda campaigns.

Berman’s anti-environmental project at CCF was called Big Green Radicals and was seeded with a $150,000 “public education” grant from Bradley in 2013.

According to Bradley’s background document, the Big Green Radicals project would include the following components:

[N]ew, updated research profiles for NRDC, Food and Water Watch, and Sierra Club; standalone websites for all three organizations; a Facebook group seeded with several thousand fans to provide a base for the message; the production of two online videos to explain the real agenda of the environmental left; and Google keyword advertising for members of the media and the public searching for information about one of the targeted groups.

In addition to providing the start-up funding for Big Green Radicals, Bradley gave $85,000 to theCapital Research Center(CRC),a group led by former Berman and Company employee Scott Walter. The grant was designated for “general operations,” but it may have been used to support the publication Green Watch. A background document on CRC states that, “Green Watch tracks the money flow to environmental nonprofits and critiques their positions, and those of their allies, including their policymaking ones.”(Capital Research Center GPR, August 19, 2014)

Since 2014, the Bradley Foundation has distributed numerous grants to discredit the vast amount of scientific research demonstrating the harmful effects of climate change. In 2014, it gave $65,000 to theGeorge C. Marshall Institute (GMI),a right-wing front group largely funded by oil and gas interests.NewsweekcalledGMI “a central cog in the denial machine” in 2007.

GMI folded in late 2015,so Bradley recommended $50,000 in “seed funding” the following year for its “successor organization,” the CO2 Coalition.The coalition is led by aDr. William Happer, a well-known climate change denier. “We’re doing our best to try and counter this myth that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. It’s not a pollutant at all,” Happersaidat a Heritage Foundation event on energy and climate.

Another $10,000 Bradley grant in 2014 for the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CSCDGC) went to support its Science & Public Policy Institute (SPPI). A staff recommendation notes that SPPI “has helped demonstrate that no real-world data confirms that floods, draughts [sic], or hurricanes are becoming more frequent or severe, as global-warming alarmists allege. Neither is there any real-world data that sea levels are about to rise precipitously, inundating the world’s coasted [sic] lowlands, as is also often alleged.”(Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change GPR, June 17, 2014)

ENERGYROUNDTABLES

Documents show that, beginning in 2013, Bradley provided funding to theThomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, also an SPN member, to host and organize two “energy roundtables” a year — one before the Heritage Foundation’s annual Resource Bank meeting, and the other before SPN’s annual fall meeting.(Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy GPR, November 10, 2015)

The $50,000-per-year grant from Bradley for the meetings was matched “by staff arrangement” by theC:{onsumer Energy Alliance (CEA),}:a front group for the energy industry that promotes fossil fuel development and opposes efforts to regulate its activities.

“Planned and put on in close cooperation with the Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), the roundtables allow state think tanks to better promote free-market energy and environmental policies,” one document states. (Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy GPR, November 12, 2013)

Attendance has been high at the roundtables, with as many as “67 SPN leaders”attending the event inDenver in September 2014. The agenda for that meeting details presentations from a number of fossil fuel lovers including: Artic Power, Consumer Energy Alliance, Vital for Colorado, Devon Energy, GOPAC (a political action committee that backs and trains Republican candidates), and Freedom Partners. Freedom Partners, a funding conduit for the billionaire Koch brothers, delivered a talk on “Messaging and State Action.”(Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy GPR, November 11, 2014)

BRADLEY GRANTEES WORKED TOGETHER TO DEFEAT LOCAL REGULATIONS ON FRACKING IN COLORADO

In 2014, the Independence Institute and Berman’s Big Green Radicals worked in lockstep in Colorado to defeat local fracking bans, such as the one that passed by ballot measure in Longmont in November of 2013.A 2015 Bradley backgrounder on the Independence Institute praises the anti-fracking work of Independence Institute’s Energy Policy Center, saying, “It has also been a key coalition partner in the movement to stop local and statewide bans on hydraulic fracturing. Last year, current Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper crafted a delicately balanced compromise on local control of oil and gas drilling that removed all initiatives on the issue from the state ballot.”

Berman’s Big Green Radicals rolled out an attack campaign to discredit anti-fracking efforts in the state in May of 2014.Big Green Radicalsassertedthat “extreme groups, mostly based far from Colorado in San Francisco, New York, or Washington D.C., are spending millions and spreading their anti-science message to scare voters into approving ballot measures in November to send the oil and gas industry (and the jobs and affordable energy it provides) packing from the Centennial State.”

The efforts by these two groups were successful in overturning local fracking bans. Bradley agreed and decreased its funding recommendation for EPC to $25,000 in 2016, saying, “it is unlikely that there will be any significant developments for EPC in the upcoming months, and therefore staff believes this reduced award is important.”

It is uncertain where the next battleground for energy development will be for Bradley, but the documents demonstrate that they have the funds to bankroll infrastructure in place to discredit climate science and smear the opposition.

OTHER NOTABLE BRADLEY GRANTS

Other significant Bradley grants to support fossil fuel development or dispute climate science in recent years include:

• $150,000 to Opportunity Ohio for “program activities.” (2016)
• $100,000 to Energy and Environment Legal Institute for “transparency practice general.” (2016) HORNER SCHNARE
• $20,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment for “general operations.” (2016)
• $200,000 to Competitive Enterprise Institute for “general operations” and “litigation.” (2013, 2015)
• $100,000 toThe Sand County Foundation for “energy resource development.” (2014)
• $100,000 to National Center for Policy Analysis for “general operations.” (2014)
• $20,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment for “general operations.” (2014)

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regent

benson oil guy trailhead

http://www.coloradoindependent.com/160424/colorado-board-of-regents-race-explained

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balance of power on the board of Colorado’s flagship university could tip in this year’s election and the race comes at a time when college campuses have become high-profile battlegrounds over issues like guns, race, free speech and gender identity. Already, one national issue, climate change, is featuring prominently in campaigns for regent. And sure to be debated in the weeks ahead: What to do about the rising costs of tuition in an era of reduced state funding.

Regent races may be typically sleepy affairs, but this year’s at-large race between Democrat Alice Madden and Republican Heidi Ganahl could touch off some fireworks as the election season heats up. Plus, you may want to know what to say when the topic of this race comes up at parties. (Don’t ask us what kind of parties we go to.)

As Ganahl, puts it: “We call this race the most important race you’ve never heard of because most people don’t know what the heck a regent is.”

So, whatisthe board of regents?

The University of Colorado Board of Regents in anine-member panel of elected men and womenwho each represent a political party. Seven of them are elected in their respective congressional districts, and two at-large regents are elected by all voters statewide. Regents serve six-year staggered terms. Colorado is one of only four states where voters statewide get to choose a regent instead of having them appointed, and if you’re a registered voter you’ll get to make a choice between two candidates in November— one a Democrat and one a Republican.

And what do these regents do?

Among other duties, regents choose the president of the University of Colorado’s 60,000-plus-student body. They set policy, decide on degree programs and vote on the university’s $3.5 billion budget. CU is the state’s third-largest employer and contributes $7 billion to Colorado’s economy. Regents also vote on whether to raise or lower tuition.

What’s so important about the at-large race for regent this year?

Well, for one, while Colorado has been trending blue over the past decade, the board of regents has been controlled by Republicans since 1979. Right now, it’s a 5-4 GOP majority.

It hasn’t been a hyper-polarized board, and according to Michael Carrigan, a Democratic regent from Denver, there’s no reason to think that will change.

“It’s not the like Democrats are going to get in charge and go wacky left, or if the Republicans stay in charge that they’re going to …[try] to turn the university in a radically right direction,” he says.

That may be so, says his fellow regent, Glen Gallegos, a Republican from Grand Junction, but “I think it’s important to the party to have control of that board. Whether it’s more symbolic than not, I think it’s an important thing.”

While generally rare, votes that break along party lines have been known to happen. In 2008, for example, the board chose current president Bruce Benson, an oil man who was once chairman of the Colorado Republican Party and the GOP nominee for governor in 1994, on a 6-3 party-line vote.

The issues currently challenging the university — from faculty diversity, to the promotion of academic research on climate change, to the rising cost of tuition and how to offset it — suggest partisan differences could lie ahead.

The board deadlocked in June when trying to elect a new chair. Votes split between two candidates, one a Republican, one a Democrat, with a third candidate peeling off a single vote. As of this posting, the board has yet to choose its chair. During a weekend retreat in the mountains earlier this month, the board sought again to name a new chair, but no one made a nomination.*

OK, so who’s running for the at-large seat that will be on my ballot in November?

The two candidates are women, and come from pretty different backgrounds.

DemocratAlice Maddenis a former lawmaker and University of Colorado grad with a history of environmental activism. Madden, it should be noted, was also an architect of the successful 2004 effort to flip Colorado’s legislature blue, which later became known as “The Blueprint”— the title of a book about the movement.

“Certainly I want to rally the Democratic troops and I’ll say we’ll flip the board, and I flipped the House and isn’t that cool, but that’s campaigning,” she says. “Of course, I do want people to get excited about this race, but I do think the Republicans have been in control for an awfully long time and my question is, ‘Do you think things could be done better?’ And I do.”

Madden is the director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at the University of Colorado’s law school— her alma mater. If if elected as a regent, she wouldgovern her employer.

RepublicanHeidi Ganahlis a businesswoman and CU-Boulder grad who sits on the University of Colorado’s foundation board, runs a charity calledMoms Fight Back, and started Camp Bow Wow, which became the first big nationally franchised doggy day care service.

“I’ve got a business background, I built a $100 million brand with Camp Bow Wow and franchising is all about listening to people and helping people collaborate and come to a vision that we can all agree on, and building on that vision,” she says, noting those are qualities needed for being an effective regent

Republican Party chairman Steve House has a little joke about Ganahl he tells when talking her up.

“Heidi makes me mad,” he told a GOP audience in El Paso County earlier this month. “Because she found a way to make more money than I do by playing with dogs.”

Plenty of issues set Madden and Ganahl apart...

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Industries can also obtain influence throughacademic conferences hosted by schools.The Global Energy Management (GEM) Program at theUniversity of Colorado Denver Business School, which runs an annual energy forum, is sponsored by the oil and gas corporation Encana. The 2011 keynote address at the annual GEM conference is aimed to “debunk many of the myths about ‘green' energy and explain why the fuels of the future can be summarized as N2N: natural gas to nuclear.”

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James Hill & John Peters, University of Colorado, Denver (Anschutz Health and Wellness Center)

• STAT: Disney, Fearing a Scandal, Tried to Press Journal to Withdraw Research Paper

https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/08/disney-nutrition-colorado-journal/

the Walt Disney Company urged an academic journal to withdraw a nutritional study of children’s meals at Disney World last fall — a study it had funded — amid a public backlash over corporate involvement in scientific research, according to newly obtained emails.

Disney wasn’t concerned about the study’s findings, but feared being publicly associated with one of its main authors, James Hill of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Hill’s work last summer drew an outcry among scientists who felt his project, funded by Coca-Cola, played down the impact of sugary drinks in obesity.

Emails obtained by STAT show that Disney asked Hill and a coauthor to withdraw the meal study — a step that many researchers would consider a breach of ethics.

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In one email, Hill told Disney an editor at the journal had advised him that “we risk some real negative PR if anyone found out that Disney was even trying to influence publication.” The company relented, but was later offered an opportunity by the authors to tailor the press release about the study’s findings. That, too, was unusual.

The emails do not indicate that Disney influenced the findings, but they open a rare window on the back-and-forth between researchers and a corporate sponsor. They also mark what experts described as an unusual degree of corporate involvement in an academic study.

“The authors should follow the science, and Disney should not be influencing either how they do the study, how they report the study, or whether they report the study,” said George Annas, a Boston University professor of law and medicine who also directs the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights. “There can’t be any strings attached.”

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coors as regent? some other older rw wacko?

more recently/currently?

After graduation, he began work in theCoors Porcelain Co.; the porcelain business helped support the company duringProhibition. With his brother,William Coors, Joseph refined the cold-filtered beer manufacturing system and began America's first large-scale recycling program by offering 1-cent returns on Coors aluminum cans.He served one term as a regent of the University of Colorado, attempting to quell what he considered to be campus radicalism during the Vietnam war.He served as president of Coors from 1977 to 1985 and chief operating officer from 1980 to 1988. His leadership helped expand Coors beer distribution from western states to the entire USA.

Politics

Coors was perhaps best known for his conservative politics. A founding member of theHeritage Foundationalong withPaul WeyrichandEdwin Feulner, Coors provided $250,000 to the think tank to cover its first year budget. He was also involved with the founding of theFree Congress Foundationand theCouncil for National Policy. He was a member ofRonald Reagan'sKitchen Cabinet, helping finance Reagan's political career as governor of California and U.S. president.[2]Coors was also known to have privately donated $65,000 to buy a light cargo plane for theContras' effort in Nicaragua during Reagan's presidency. That donation went through National Security Council adviser Oliver North.[5]

Death

Coors died in Rancho Mirage, California, after a three-month battle with lymphatic cancer.[2]

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BOULDER — The University of Colorado announced Wednesday morning Steven Haywardwill be appointed as the first visiting scholar in conservative thought.

FoxNews' neo-McCarthyism

The O'ReillyFactor program plays a fundamental ideological and propagandistic role. Its principal purpose is to uncritically propagate the position of the U.S. government or its right-wing ideologues, and to disparage critics of that policy/ideology. The latter involves character assassination, disparaging comments, and even calls for a person to be imprisoned, fired from their job, and for the "mob" to attack the person in question.

On February 2, 2005, O'Reilly persecuted Ward Churchill,an outspoken professor at the University of Colorado/Boulder and author of numerous books. Churchill wrote and suggested that 911 was a case of "chickens coming home to roost",and a direct consequence of US policy abroad. These comments (which were a year old), were recast as being anti-American, and this paragraph conveys the flavor of the rest of the program:

He wants us to empathize with Al Qaeda. Yet he has little empathy for his fellow countrymen who died on 9/11. He sees the USA as a racist country run by human rights violators. So, of course, any attack on America is justified in his mind. [5]

The result of this program was acoordinated campaign of intimidation against university where Ward Churchill teaches, death threats, and other vile reactions. This is what Ward Churchill had to say about this:

In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life.What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same extent that the fabrications have been.

— Ward Churchill, Churchill Replies, Z Net, February 2, 2005.

As the experience of several of the victims of O'Reilly's campaigns indicates, the character assassination in The O'Reilly Factor is the culmination of a campaign that includes the following:

Vilification in the right-wing press.

Concerted mail/email campaigns against the institution where the victims work. The fact that such email campaigns start before the airing of the program proves that this aspect of the campaign is coordinated.

Waves of spam and spoofed emails against the victims have been evident.

Violent threats have been made.

Daniel Pipes's Campus-Watchhas listed and posted "dossiers" on several of the victims that are eventually disparaged by O'Reilly.

Deciding fates: judge, jury and...

If the McCartyite campaign wasn't bad enough, on February 2, 2005, O'Reilly appeared together with Daniel Pipes in a program entitled: "Deciding Churchill's fate"! Exerpts:

"The Colorado Board of Regents will decide the fate of professor Ward Churchill, who compared Americans killed on 9/11 to Nazis. Apparently the man is getting threats, and a reporter from The New York Times called me to ask if I felt responsible. I won't be surprised if The Factor audience and I are blamed in some circles for the unfortunate plight of Ward Churchill. I don't revel in the destruction of any person, even one who has said the vile things Churchill has said. I even said the man shouldn't be fired from his job because America is strong enough to tolerate even him. But all that doesn't matter to the left wing media. This isn't about Churchill, this is about power--and many on the left hate the fact that Fox has it. What do Churchill and his sympathizers expect? We're in a war on terror and he supports the enemy. That being said, Churchill should not be harmed in any way--he should instead by [sic] shunned."

— O'Reilly, Deciding Churchill's fate, February 2, 2005.

The choice of Pipes for the program is curious. Here is someone who has been smearing and baiting university professors who have been critical of Israel, and he is asked to comment on the "fate" of someone he reviles!

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CU's Benson complies uneasily with Democratic probe into climate professor

4/1/2015

By Valerie Richardson

THE COLORADO STATESMAN

University of Colorado officials have turned over information — albeit grudgingly — on professor Roger Pielke Jr. to U.S. House Democrats on what he calls a “witch hunt” into the funding of certain climate scientists.

CU President Bruce Bensoncomplied last week with a request by U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., for Pielke’s salary, external funding sources and financial-disclosure forms as part of a probe into whether professors who deviate from the so-called “consensus” view on climate change receive fossil-fuel funding.

At the same time, Benson bristled at the implication that the CU Boulder environmental studies professor had somehow slanted his research to advance a political agenda.

“We are aware of nothing to suggest that Professor Pielke’s research and conclusions were influenced by improper considerations,” said the March 23 letter signed by Benson and CU Boulder chancellor Philip DiStefano.

“As we provide this response, we would like to emphasize that Professor Pielke is a highly regarded researcher and that we fully support the principles of academic freedom,” the letter said. “Consistent with the principles of academic freedom, Professor Pielke’s research is subject to rigorous peer review, which helps advance and build scientific knowledge in the field.”

Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, has come under intense criticism from Republicans and scientific groups, led by the American Meteorological Society, for his investigation into the funding sources of seven professors.

He has defended the probe by noting that the professors have all testified before Congress on climate-change issues. All seven have also challenged the environmental movement’s assertion that elevated carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have triggered extreme weather events.

“I am hopeful that disclosure of a few key pieces of information will establish the impartiality of climate research and policy recommendations published in your institution’s name and assist me and my colleagues in making better law,” said Grijalva in his Feb. 24 letter to Benson.

Two of the professors under investigation have a CU Boulder connection: Pielke, a professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, and Steven F. Hayward, who now teaches at Pepperdine University but spent the 2013-14 academic year as CU’s first Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy.

The House Democrats’ investigation comes amid a searing political debate over the funding of academics in the so-called “alarmist” or “warmist” camp versus those in the “denier” or “skeptics” camp. Senate Republicans produced a report last year tying liberal foundations to the funding of climate-change advocacy groups.

Grijalva launched his probe following a New York Times report on the conservative Koch Foundation’s funding of Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon failed to disclose his financial connection before testifying in the past before Congress, said Grijalva, although Soon has argued that his research is not influenced by his financial support.

In his letter, Grijalva said he was concerned about “potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.”

He said that Pielke’s 2013 Senate testimony “featured the claim, often repeated, that it is ‘incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouses gases,’” adding that White House science adviser John Holdren disagrees with Pielke.

“My colleagues and I cannot perform our duties if research or testimony provided to us is influenced by undisclosed financial relationships,” said Grijalva.

Of the seven professors named, Pielke has been the most outspoken, condemning the investigation as a McCarthyist “witch hunt” in a post on his Climate Fix blog headlined, “I Am Under ‘Investigation.’”

“I have no funding, declared or undeclared, with any fossil fuel company or interest,” said Pielke in the Feb. 25 post. “I never have. Representative Grijalva knows this too, because when I have testified before the US Congress, I have disclosed my funding and possible conflicts of interest. So I know with complete certainty that this investigation is a politically-motivated ‘witch hunt’ designed to intimidate me (and others) and to smear my name.”

Pielke also argues that he’s hardly a poster child for climate-change “denial.” While he disagrees with catastrophic global-warming scenarios, he agrees that “human-caused climate change is real” and supports a carbon tax as well as theEPA’s proposed carbon regulations on coal-fired plants. VERIFY

Still, that’s enough to make him controversial. He parted ways with the statistics blog FiveThirtyEight last year after his article, “Disasters Cost More Than Ever — But Not Because of Climate Change,”touched off a social-media campaign to have him fired, described by Discover columnist Keith Kloor as an “ugly pile-on.”

Other climate scientists have weighed in on the Grijalva probe by stressing that funding sources should be transparent while raising concerns about the politics. In 2010, the Republican Attorney General of Virginia came under similar criticism when he launched a probe into the funding of then-UVA climate professor Michael Mann.

“It was wrong when it was done by Republicans and right-wing think tanks, and it’s wrong when it’s done by Democrats and left-wing think tanks,” University of Washington climate professor Eric Steig told National Public Radio.

At least two other universities —Arizona State University and the University of Delaware — have responded to Grijalva’s request. Arizona State’s response was similar to that of CU: ASU President Michael M. Crow provided information on professor Robert Balling’s external funding, salary and financial disclosure forms, but not his testimony or communications, saying ASU did not keep those records.

But the University of Delaware refused to turn over any documentation specific to the funding of professor David Legates,saying such information was “protected by academic freedom,” according to a March 16 letter signed by the president and provost.

CU spokesman Ryan Huff noted that all of the information provided on Pielke was public information.

“Had we received a Colorado Open Records Act request from a member of the public for the identical information, our response would have been the same,” Huff said.

Meanwhile, Pielke has since announced that he will leave the field of climate research. A member of the advisory board for the Breakthrough Institute, which advocates technological solutions for environmental dilemmas, Pielke said in a March 1 blog post he plans to continue focusing on “science, innovation and politics.”

He added that he made his decision long before the launch of the Grijalva investigation.

“I have had my say and as a scholar I am ready to move on to more fertile fields of study,” Pielke said.

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pope flying squad morano moncton

Will also feature former NASA scientist Hal Doiron, Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahan, andDr. Richard Keen, Christopher Monckton, Cal Beisner and others.

mostly heartland guys eg

Richard A. Keen is a meteorology instructor at the University of Colorado, academic scientist on the Juneau (Alaska) Ice Field Research Program, and author or coauthor of more than a dozen books. His research papers on climate topics have been published in major journals, including Science, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Climate, Annals of Glaciology, Geophysical Monographs, Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, and International Comet Quarterly. His early meteorological training was with the U.S. Army Meteorological Team, and he received his Ph.D. in geography (thesis topic: arctic climate change) from the University of Colorado. He resides in the mountains west of Denver, where he operates a cooperative weather station for the National Weather Service, continuing a tradition of volunteer climate observation begun by Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

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Richard Keen

Day Job:Meteorology instructor at the University of Colorado.

Industry Ties:Regular at Heartland Institute conferences.

Climate Expertise: Has published a few climate-related articles in peer-reviewed journals., he has experience as a military meteorologist and has "done some climate modeling but when I was younger and less wise."

He said it: From his presentation at the ICCC7: "The Warmers 'jimmy' the data to make it agree with the models and look like it is warming."

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-1966, Joe Coors was installed as a regent of theUniversity of Colorado.He became known for his advocacy of repressing campus dissent. Coors also sought to abolish Chicano and Black studies programs at the University, and to curtail the admissions of low-income students, because he believed such students would lower academic standards.

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None of the 26 bills to roll back requirements passed before most state legislature sessions ended,according to a July 9 report from Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy. Eight states voted to strengthen or modify laws that require utilities to purchase electricity produced from renewable sources.

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actually Gray at CSU

Evidence suggests the paucity of reporting on climate change is not limited to the US alone. An ongoingstudy of various media outletsaround the world by the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder charts global climate change media coverage, noting a peak at the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009. boycof

Boykoff is now here at the University of Colorado-Boulder,

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/media_coverage/

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Roger Pielke, Sr., Senior Research Scientist at CIRES at the:{:{**University**:(style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0);vertical-align:baseline;float:none;height:auto;left:auto;right:auto;top:auto;bottom:auto;position:static;display:inline;white-space:normal;margin:0px !important;padding:0px 0px 1px !important"):}:****:(style="border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;height:auto;left:auto;right:auto;top:auto;bottom:auto;position:static;margin:0px !important;padding:0px !important;float:none !important;display:inline !important;white-space:nowrap !important"):}:of Colorado at Boulder, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/26/climate-scientists-come-to-terms-with-the-lack-of-global-warming/#ixzz2Y0Vjt7uS

https://www.colorado.edu/cwctp/conservative-thought-policy

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 w fellows? just one:

By Mitchell Byars

The Daily Camera

BOULDER — The University of Colorado announced Wednesday morning Steven Hayward will be appointed as the first visiting scholar in conservative thought.

Hayward, a Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Fellow at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University in Ohio, will begin his one-year appointment in the fall.

"Dr. Hayward brings an impressive breadth of knowledge to this position, having researched a range of environmental,historical and political issues," said Steven R. Leigh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at CU, in a release. He added that Hayward's recent investigations of environmental issues "bring important dimensions to discussions on campus ... He also shows dedication to our teaching mission, planning a well-defined range of courses. We are pleased that he will join us as a visiting scholar."

Hayward will teach in fall and spring semesters in 2013-14. He tentatively is scheduled to teach four undergraduate courses: three in political science (Constitutional Law 1 and 2, and American Political Thought) and one in environmental studies, Free-Market Environmentalism.

"This is a bold experiment for the university and me to see whether the ideological spectrum can be broadened in a serious and constructive way," Hayward said in a statement. "Good teaching should make all students, of whatever disposition, better thinkers. In the humanities, this should be done by considering fairly the full range of perspectives on a subject. That's the way I intend to conduct classes while I am visiting at the university, and I hope that students of every kind of opinion will feel welcome in my classroom."

Hayward beat out two other finalists, Linda Chavez and Ron Haskins.

Hayward holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Claremont Graduate School. He has been the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he was principal author and project director of the AEI's "Energy and Environment Outlook."

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The Conservative Thought and Policy Program began in 2013 as a way to promote intellectual diversity on the CU-Boulder campus. The initiative, which is supported entirely by private funds, seeks highly visible scholars who are deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.

Visiting scholars may hold the title for one or two years. They are expected to teach a load commensurate with his or her field and offer public lectures, public seminars and/or informal discussions with students and the public. While on campus, the visiting scholar brings in prominent members of the conservative intellectual community from around the country for a day at CU-Boulder; the guests of the program give lectures that are free and open to the public.

Applicants may come from academic, military, media or policy communities. The selection of visiting scholars is made by members of the Executive and Advisory Boards of the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy, including a mix of faculty and community members.

The visiting scholars in Conservative Thought and Policy comprise:

2017-2018:Robert G. Kaufman

2016-2017:Francis Beckwith

2015-2016:Brian Domitrovic

2014-2015:Bradley J. Birzer

2013-2014: Steven Hayward

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Robert G. Kaufman, a political scientist specializing in American foreign policy, has been named the 2017-18 Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy at CU Boulder. He is the fifth person to hold the position.

Kaufman, the Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, is scheduled to teach two courses per semester in fall 2017 and spring 2018.

Additionally, he will be encouraged to foster discussion by hosting public events in the campus community and perhaps around the state.

Kaufman received his juris doctor from Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C., and his bachelor’s, two masters’ and a doctoral degree from Columbia University in New York City. In May 2016, he received an advanced law degree in dispute resolution from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.

Kaufman said he was honored and delighted to accept the appointment. He is no stranger to the CU Boulder campus, having participated for nine years in the CU Conference on World Affairs, an experience he described as “stimulating and welcoming.”

“I hope to make a rigorous contribution to the intellectual life of the university and the state, broadly understood,” Kaufman said, adding: 

“Consider me a happy academic warrior who delights in engaging all types of audiences: academic, professional and political. I strive to combine academic rigor with intellectual curiosity, to be principled without being dogmatic, and to disagree agreeably when we do disagree even fundamentally.” 

Robert Pasnau, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy, which houses the Conservative Thought and Policy Program, had high praise for Kaufman.

“He is one of the leading critics of recent American foreign policy, and the champion of a return to a more muscular stance, ideas that could not be more relevant in the current political context,” Pasnau said.

“Professor Kaufman is a famously energetic and entertaining teacher who fits perfectly into the center’s ambitions to stimulate intellectual discourse on campus.”

Kaufman has written for scholarly journals and popular publications including The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, The Washington Times, the Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

He has written four books, including his most recent, Dangerous Doctrine: How Obama's Grand Strategy Weakened America. His other publications include In Defense of the Bush Doctrine, a biography;Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics, which received the Emil and Katherine Sick Award for the best book on the history of the Pacific Northwest; andArms Control During the Pre-Nuclear Era.

Kaufman also assisted President Richard M. Nixon in the research and writing of Nixon's final book, Beyond Peace.

Kaufman is a former Bradley Scholar and current adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation u kty press, daniel pipes blurb

. He has taught at Colgate University, The Naval War College and the University of Vermont.

In recent months, a CU Boulder advisory committee has identified finalists for the 2017-18 visiting scholar position, which is a one-year appointment. The committee has sought a “highly visible” scholar who is “deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thinking and policymaking or both.”

The advisory committee includes members of the faculty and community and is chaired by Pasnau.

The Conservative Thought and Policy Program is supported by private funds.

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With Republicans running the Board of Regentsfor years, a series of conservative presidents, the current one Benson privatizing the university, the silencing of that 'liberal' voice the Silver and Gold Record, THANK GOD we finally have a conservative scholar! Welcome to Liberty University West!!