Doug Domenech tppf

=see mainntbcw Ben federalist?  son plagiarist ;some doug thererev drsee tppf=<div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">aha RW conveniently gets their tyranny totalitarian mixed up eg NAZI are socialists b/c it's in the name when nazi killed union leaders and leftists; don't know or won't admit eugenics favored by mainstream and gop rockefellers; sanger gets tagged b/c a woman and birth control and that's close enough to abortion/women's rights to make her target/extremist</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">kinda ties into vegan tree huggers want to sacrifice ppl for nature // false choice between nature/breathable air and jobs/economy</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>aha RW conveniently gets their tyranny totalitarian mixed up eg NAZI are socialists b/c it's in the name when nazi killed union leaders and leftists; don't know or won't admit eugenics favored by mainstream and gop rockefellers; sanger gets tagged b/c a woman and birth control and that's close enough to abortion/women's rights to make her target/extremist</div><div>
</div><div>kinda hilarious trump right going full authrotaran tiki torch nazi but fretting about eugenics; also // plandemic/agenda 21/ red scare anti-commie de-population great reset?</div><div><div>
</div><div>August 26, 2016Doug Domenech appeared on the Bill Martinez show where he talked about global warming and environmentalism. Domenech’s talk was titled “Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?” [23], [24]“The essence of the way environmental people think, when you really boil it down, is that the way we can protect our kids is not to have them in the first place,” Domenech told Martinez.[23]Referring to professor Travis N. Rieder from John Hopkins University, Domenech said Rieder was lecturing students and claiming that “for us to protect ourselves from global warming, and especially to protect kids and people in Africa, that we should have fewer kids in America.”Domenech said this was “a complete turning over of the principle that people are our most important resource.” [23]Bill Martinez went on to discuss abortion, which said was eliminating “some 56 million plus of our labour force [..] because of the eugenics movement, Margaret Sanger, and Planned Parenthood.”  Martinez asks, “Is this the same type of philosophy, just in a different shape and form?” to which Domenech replies: [23]“Well, it is. And you might remember Paul Ehrlich, he’s a noted environmental guy, wrote The Population Bomb. And as well as Margaret Sanger and her eugenics. And Lester Brown is another name—he’s just written a book called Full Planet, Empty Plate. […] The essence of the philosophy of these people is that we need to return the Earth to its pre-human state, and that’s the only thing that’s going to satisfy them.”  [23]Domenech lumps global warming in with a list of supposed non-problems, including global cooling, mass starvation, resource depletion, and species extinctions: [23]“Back in the 70s, one of the great failed environmental predictions was global cooling,” he said.  “In the mid 1700s we were still in the midst of a little ice age, and cooling was a very significant problem, and it remains a big problem. And, of course, that led us to talking about overpopulation—that has not really been a problem.” [23]He says another “non-problem” is mass starvation, as “our food production is bigger than ever.” [23]Talking about resource depletion, Domenech pointed to fracking as the reason why “we’ve got more oil and gas than ever.” [23]“Mass extinction of species – and that has really not happened,” he said. [23] “That, of course, leads us to global warming, where we are today. These are all these big constructs that we need to worry about, and this is just the latest.” [23]Domenech had written an article covering similar issues a day prior in RealClear Energy titled “Your Damn Children are Killing the Planet.” [25]</div><div>=</div></div></div>=<a href="https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/">https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/</a>no lx many vid aud
Doug DomenechCredentialsB.S., Forestry and Wildlife Management, Virginia Tech (1978). [1]BackgroundDouglas Domenech is the former secretary of natural resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia and current director of the Fueling Freedom Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). [1]
Domenech worked in several capacities for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. His roles between 2001 to 2009 included White House liaison during the Bush Administration and deputy chief of staff. timberwolf/ no tree left?
In 2017, Domenech was named Senior White House Advisor to the Department of the Interior in the Trump administration. He also served on Donald Trump’s transition team for the Interior.[1], [2], [3], [4]
Doug Domenech spent several years working in the forestry industry including 12 years with the Forest Resources Association, an industry trade association. Domenech was the Senior Vice President of the lobbying firm Artemis Strategies. He was also a principal at Chrysalis Energy Partners, an energy consulting firm. [5], [6],  [1]
Governor Jim Gilmore appointed Domenech to the Virginia Board of Forestry. Domenech also on Governor George Allen’s Commonwealth Competition Council. He was the former executive director of the National Center for Home Education, a division of the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville, and was executive director of the Madison Project, a conservative Republican political action committee. [7]
TPPF‘s Fueling Freedom project seeks to “Explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels” while “building a multi-state coalition to push back against the EPA‘s unconstitutional efforts to take over the electric power sector by regulating CO2 via the Clean Power Plan.” [8], [9] Previously Domenech has promoted the views of a small fringe of contrarians scientists who reject concerns over human-caused climate change and has dismissed efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions using national and International programs.
Doug Domenech is the father of Ben Domenech, a conservative activist and blogger for the Washington Post who faced allegations of plagiarism, to which he subsequently admitted. [10], [11]
Stance on Climate ChangeDecember 13, 2016
Promoting the “At the Crossroads: Energy and Climate Summit,” co-sponsored by the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Heritage Foundation, Domenech said: [12]
“Speaking truth to power, these experts had a common message in response to the age-old questions: Is climate change real? Yes, it has happened in the past and will happen in the future.  Is man making an impact on the climate? Perhaps but in very small ways. But the overarching consensus remains the climate change we are experiencing is by no means catastrophic.”
Speaking of the climate change deniers at the conference such as Richard Lindzen, Willie Soon, Will Happer, Craig Idso, David Legates, and others, Domenech said “I would say, thank you for your service.” [12]
May 17, 2016
Writing at RealClear Energy, Doug Domenech cites a Heritage Foundation study as proof that the 97% consensus of scientists on man-made climate change is a “myth”: [13]
“On Earth Day, The Heritage Foundation published, ‘The State of Climate Science: No Justification for Extreme Policies.’ The report reviews much of what climate apologists insist is true including the myth that 97 percent of all climate scientists agree on global warming. That is a powerful rhetorical point and often quoted by the President, but it is also false and based on a faulty review of the abstracts of a limited number of papers,” Domenech wrote. [13]
“There is little doubt that the proposed solution to the CO2 ‘problem’ will be all-pain with no-gain. The high cost will produce an immeasurable difference in CO2 concentrations,” he added. [13]
December 23, 2015
Writing in The Federalist, after describing the Paris Climate Agreement as a “illegal, unconstitutional, and scientifically flawed ‘agreement’ that in the end will not prevent the earth’s climate from changing,” Douglas Domenech declared: [14]“The climate changes—deal with it.”
November 12, 2015
Writing in the Washington Examiner, Doug Domenech suggests that climate change is a subject that can be explained by eighth grade earth science: [15]
“Having many friends in the political and policy spheres, I do not know a single Republican who does not believe the climate is changing. If you remember your basic eighth grade earth science you will recall that the earth has a constantly changing climate from ice ages to warming periods, and our current climate is not some new objective standard that must be held constant.” [15]
Key QuotesApril 14, 2016
Writing at the National Review, Domenech claims that the Paris Climate Agreement will have no benefits to society: [16]
“In order to achieve the unmeasurably small climate benefit of 0.018 degree Celsius, the United States would have to wreak havoc on the economy, jobs, and electricity rates — and, in the process, on the lives of millions of people. While life on Earth is improving, the U.N. policy would only reverse what has been achieved. Earth Day resulted in tangible benefits to society. The Paris agreement will not.” [16]
February 21, 2016
Quoted in the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Domenech said that the climate benefits of phasing out coal is “questionable”: [17]
 “It is no surprise to anyone that this Administration wants to regulate out of existence coal mining and the use of coal in energy production. While the climate benefits of such a move are questionable, there has been a clear real impact on coal communities, families and associated industries that rely on the production and use of this plentiful, efficient, low-cost natural energy source.” [17]
In the same article, Domenech accuses President Obama of ignoring climate science: [17]
“President Obama made certain environmental promises to core constituencies and donors to rein in the use of fossil fuels, which they blame for changing the weather – er, the climate – ignoring complicated climate science, everything we know about the earth’s climate history (think – naturally WAY cooler and WAY hotter in the past), and the fact that UN climate models consistently overestimate the climate’s sensitivity to increasing levels of CO2. [17]
[…] Denial is part of addiction. No matter how much you insist that the subject of climate is not open to debate, the debate rages on.” [17]
May 5, 2015
Domenech declares in an article he wrote for The Federalist: [18]
“The Clean Power Plan will require states to ask ‘Mother, may I?’ when it comes to electricity production. In this case, the mother is McCarthy’s EPA office.”[18]
November 10, 2015
Writing at the Morning Consult, in an article titled “The Climate Addiction,” Domenech reframes the “war on coal” as a “war on coal families”: [19]
“The War on Coal is really a war on coal families. Hardworking middle-class families with hopes and dreams for their children. A war based on a radical and questionable scientific premise, a desire to be loved at home and abroad by a small environmentalist minority, and a proven flawed economic theory of centralized government control.” [19]
Key DeedsNovember 21, 2016
Doug Domenech was added to Donald Trump’s energy and environmental transition team, taking on the lead of the Interior team which was previously headed by another former Bush Interior official, David Bernhardt, E&E News reported. [4]
The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following statement in response to Domenech’s appointment: [20]
“It’s beyond frightening that Trump would appoint a shill for Big Oil to plot the direction of a department that administers millions of acres of public lands that belong to all Americans,” said Randi Spivak, the Center’s public lands director. “This is a clear signal that in a Trump administration it will be open season for corporations who want to frack, drill or mine our public resources, regardless of climate chaos, water pollution, species extinction and health impacts to communities. Any attempt to open up America’s public lands to increased fracking, drilling and extraction will be met with a wall of public resistance. That’s the real moral imperative.” [20]
November 16, 2016
Doug Domenech, writing at RealClear Energy, celebrated Donald Trump and suggests that the prior administration’s “unrelenting commitment to ‘fighting’ climate change” as well as restrictions on oil and gas drilling on federal lands and offshore has had a “harmful impact on local communities and the economy.” [21]
Speaking on Trump’s new energy plans, including the rescinding of the coal mining lease moratorium and other “anti-coal” regulations, Domenech wrote: [21]
“These policies will reinvigorate communities across the nation. Especially those most seriously impacted by the current restrictive energy policies.
“The purpose of these new policies is to stop the intrusion of government into the marketplace. Coal may not come back, but it should at least be allowed to compete on a level playing field against natural gas and so-called “green” energy such as wind and solar.” [21]
Domenech then invites readers to attend the co-hosted Texas Public Policy Foundation and The Heritage Foundation event, the third annual “At the Crossroads: Energy and Climate Policy Summit.” [21]
September 7, 2016
Doug Domenech went on One America News Network to discuss the “EPA‘s regulatory overreach.” Domenech says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is out of control. [22]“I think EPA is out of control because of this tendency to want to continue to impose new regulations,” Domenech said. “Another great example is they are pushing for a new ozone standard while the last standard is still being implemented.”
August 26, 2016Doug Domenech appeared on the Bill Martinez show where he talked about global warming and environmentalism. Domenech’s talk was titled “Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?” [23], [24]“The essence of the way environmental people think, when you really boil it down, is that the way we can protect our kids is not to have them in the first place,” Domenech told Martinez.[23]Referring to professor Travis N. Rieder from John Hopkins University, Domenech said Rieder was lecturing students and claiming that “for us to protect ourselves from global warming, and especially to protect kids and people in Africa, that we should have fewer kids in America.”Domenech said this was “a complete turning over of the principle that people are our most important resource.” [23]Bill Martinez went on to discuss abortion, which said was eliminating “some 56 million plus of our labour force [..] because of the eugenics movement, Margaret Sanger, and Planned Parenthood.”  Martinez asks, “Is this the same type of philosophy, just in a different shape and form?” to which Domenech replies: [23]“Well, it is. And you might remember Paul Ehrlich, he’s a noted environmental guy, wrote The Population Bomb. And as well as Margaret Sanger and her eugenics. And Lester Brown is another name—he’s just written a book called Full Planet, Empty Plate. […] The essence of the philosophy of these people is that we need to return the Earth to its pre-human state, and that’s the only thing that’s going to satisfy them.”  [23]Domenech lumps global warming in with a list of supposed non-problems, including global cooling, mass starvation, resource depletion, and species extinctions: [23]“Back in the 70s, one of the great failed environmental predictions was global cooling,” he said.  “In the mid 1700s we were still in the midst of a little ice age, and cooling was a very significant problem, and it remains a big problem. And, of course, that led us to talking about overpopulation—that has not really been a problem.” [23]He says another “non-problem” is mass starvation, as “our food production is bigger than ever.” [23]Talking about resource depletion, Domenech pointed to fracking as the reason why “we’ve got more oil and gas than ever.” [23]“Mass extinction of species – and that has really not happened,” he said. [23] “That, of course, leads us to global warming, where we are today. These are all these big constructs that we need to worry about, and this is just the latest.” [23]Domenech had written an article covering similar issues a day prior in RealClear Energy titled “Your Damn Children are Killing the Planet.” [25]
April 19, 2016Doug Domenech released a statement on behalf of the Texas Public Policy  Foundation on the removal of the extension of renewable energy subsidies from the must-pass reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration: [26]“We are pleased that leadership in the U.S. Senate removed the troublesome tax incentives and credits attached to the FAA Reauthorization bill,” said Doug Domenech. “Energy production in America should be based on the free market, not artificially propped up in ways that mask the real cost to the consumer and the taxpayer.” [26]TPPF was one of 33 groups that included Americans for Prosperity to send a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) asking that expiring renewable energy subsidies not be attached to a must-pass reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, describing them as “green pork” provisions.  [26]
March 27, 2016Domenech went on The Jacki Daily Show to talk about “The Real History of Earth Day.” Audio below. [27]
January 26, 2016Doug Domenech testified before the Missouri House of Representatives Energy and the Environment Committee in support of HB1470, which would create an “Interstate Power Compact.” HB1470 would work to restrict the EPA‘s Clean Air Act, also known as the Clean Power Plan, by excepting Member States from participating in the plan unless “he filing involves emission limits of what is technically achievable inside the physical boundaries of the electrical generating units, and (2) until such time as the U.S. Supreme Court has rendered an opinion that the Clean Power Plan is legally valid,” the TPPF press release reads. [28]“There are significant legal, technical, and policy deficiencies to the so-called Clean Power Plan and this legislation provides important safeguards for Missouri,” said Domenech. “Missouri will be significantly impacted by the CPP’s carbon emission rule since 83 percent of Missouri’s electricity is produced by low cost coal and the EPA is demanding the state reduce emissions by 37 percent. It is high time for states to coordinate a response to this EPA overreach and this is exactly what the Interstate Power Compact does.” [28]
July 2016Domenech wrote a study titled “The EPA‘s Clean Power Plan Will Hurt the Poor and Middle Class the Most” (PDF). In the study, he quotes Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, who called the CPP “a slap in the face to poor and minority families” and also commissioned his own study that criticized the CPP. [29]“The elite can afford higher energy costs. But people on fixed incomes, and lower- and middle-income families (including many African Americans and Latinos/Hispanics), and businesses that provide jobs to working class people—they need energy that’s affordable. For many of them, the choice is between the CPP […] and keeping the lights on,” Domenech concludes in the report. [29]
June 8, 2016Writing in The Daily Caller, in an article titled “Did You Burn Any Fossil Fuels Today?”  Domenech says that “the facts do not support the President [Obama]” when it comes to linking extreme weather events to climate change. Instead, Domenech cites climate change denier Lamar Smith who had said that “The lack of evidence is clear: no increased tornadoes, no increased hurricanes, no increased droughts or floods.” [30]In conclusion, Domenech says that third-world companies should burn fossil fuels without worry: [30]“The policies of the United States should not doom third world countries to a lifetime of poverty. Allowing everyone to unleash the potential prosperity and health generated by fossil fuels is how we transform society. Everyone deserves to have the same benefits we enjoy.” [30]
December 22, 2015Following an interview with prominent climate change denier Myron Ebell, Douglas Domenech appeared on The Federalist radio hour to discuss the clean power plan. Domenech’s piece begins at 32:11: [31]“The administration’s big climate program is the Clean Power Plan and has been finalized by the EPA and published in the federal register about two months ago and what you saw was immediately 27 states filed suits in the courts,” Domenech said. “It’s going to boil down to the state level.” [31]
September 23, 2015Doug Domenech went on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America radio show where he discussed Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. [32]According to Domenech, “The Pope is being really ill-advised by folks that are really more global leftists concerned about ending capitalism more than helping the environment.” [32]
August 10, 2015Doug Domenech discussed the Clean Power Plan on Coffee and Markets. Audio below (Domenech starts speaking at [26:50]). [33]Domenech discussed a piece he wrote criticizing the Clean Power Plan (CPP) on August 4 in The Federalist. He cites the conservative Heritage Foundation: [33]“The Heritage Foundation put out a great study that talks about how expensive it’s going to be. They estimate that everybody’s bill, including the poorest people in our society, are going to end up paying 12 to 17 percent more for their electricity. Heritage estimates a loss of 2.5 trillion in GDP across the country, and more than a million job losses. When you close these plants, especially coal plants, across the country, people are going to lose their jobs.” [33]“It really is the ultimate central planner’s sort of perspective when they say that green energy produces jobs,” he said. “When the state imposes its will into the marketplace, we no longer have a free market.” [33]“The plan they put out really is illegal, and it far exceeds the authority of the EPA‘s ability in the Clean Air Act to even impose something like this,” Domenech adds.  [33]
August 4, 2015Doug Domenech wrote in The Federalist a number of criticisms he had for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan: [34]“The final rule is still illegal and will be changed in court as soon as the ink is dry later this summer,” Domenech says. “The cost of the rule is in the billions. The final rule still imposes higher energy prices on families, businesses, and the poor,” he adds. [34]Other claims Domenech make include:“[T]he final rule threatens the electric power grid.” [34]“Even if you believe carbon is a pollutant, the final rule still does nothing to address climate change […]” [34]Domenech concludes that Governors should rebel by refusing to submit state plans:“What should states do?“Governors should continue to oppose the rule by refusing to submit a state plan. Three courageous governors have already said publicly that they will not submit a plan.“State legislatures should also oppose the rule by passing legislation to protect consumers, businesses, and low-income Americans, and by restricting state agencies from submitting a state plan until the courts have ruled it legal. Almost 30 states filed negative comments on the proposed rule.“Congress should continue its efforts to restrict funding for the plan, passing legislation protecting ratepayers, and allowing governors to have the flexibility to reject the plan if it raises electricity rates.” [34]
August 3, 2015In a TPPF press release, Domenech urged states not comply with the EPA‘s Clean Power Plan: [35] “This latest rule does nothing for the environment, costs billions to implement, and hurts people and businesses by increasing the cost of electricity for everyone,” said Domenech. “It is critical that states not comply with this unconstitutional rule. Economic vitality is at stake, jobs are at stake, and low income Americans will disproportionately suffer its consequences.” [35]
July 12, 2015Doug Domenech criticized the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in the Washington Examiner: [36]
“The EPA‘s so-called Clean Power Plan is an illegal takeover of the electric power production sector and amounts to a national energy tax on all Americans,” he wrote. “The administration’s goal is to force states to replace their current mix of low cost, reliable energy fuels with a higher cost mix of renewables that are largely dependent on the weather.”  [36]
He said that states should work together to oppose the clean power plan by joining an Interstate Power Compact (IPC).  [36]
“The EPA is an overreaching federal agency unbounded by public opinion or congressional oversight that acts recklessly on secret science. It is high time to withdraw the Clean Power Plan rule.” [36]
April 24, 2015Doug Domenech issued a statement on behalf of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, commending Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin for not filing a State Implementation Plan (SIP) with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): [37]“Oklahoma recognizes the EPA’s Clean Power Plan edict for what it is: a power grab,” Domenech wrote. “The overreach by this federal agency is an attempt to take control over power generation in the states in such a way that would dramatically increase costs on individuals and businesses alike while harming jobs and states’ economies. I applaud Governor Fallin for taking such a strong stand against this seriously flawed and unconstitutional EPA regulation. State – all states – should count the cost of complying in terms of higher electricity rates on all families – rich and poor – and all businesses – large and small.” [37]
AffiliationsTexas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) — Director, Fueling Freedom Project (March 2015 – Present). [1]Artemis Strategies — Senior Vice President (January 2009 – January 2010). [38]National Center for Home Education — Executive Director (November 1995 – June 2001). [38]American Pulpwood Association/Forest Resources Association — Director of Forestry Programs (May 1982 – May 1993). [38]Chrysalis Energy Partners — Former Principal. [5]ITT Rayonier [5]US Forest Service [5]Department of Energy [5]Tennessee Valley Authority [5]National Center for Home Education —  Former executive director. [5]Madison Project — Former executive director. [7]GovernmentCommonwealth of Virginia — Secretary of Natural Resources (January 2010 – January 2014). [38]U.S. Department of the Interior— Deputy Chief of Staff (November 2005 – January 2009);  Deputy Assistant Secretary Insular Affairs (March 2008 – January 2009);  White House Liaison (November 2001 – January 2006); Deputy Director, External and Intergovernmental Affairs (July 2001 – November 2001). [38]Virginia Board of Forestry — Board member, appointed by Governor Jim Gilmore. [7]Governor George Allen’s Commonwealth Competition Council — Former Member. [7]Social MediaDoug Domenech on LinkedIn.@ASIIADomenech on Twitter.PublicationsWashington Examiner“Climate issues deserve an honest debate,” Washington Examiner, November 12, 2015.“What’s next for the EPA‘s ‘all pain, no gain’ Clean Power Plan?” Washington Examiner, July 12, 2015.“The EPA‘s Clean Power Plan: A scheme for rich white elitists,” Washington Examiner, June 22, 2015.The Federalist“Like CO2, The Paris Agreement Is Vapid,” The Federalist, December 23, 2015.“Obama Wasn’t Kidding About Wanting To Spike Your Electricity Bill,” The Federalist, August 4, 2015.“Why Does EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Hate Texas?” The Federalist, May 5, 2015.The Daily Caller“Did You Burn Any Fossil Fuels Today?” The Daily Caller, June 8, 2016.“What Should States Do About Obama’s New EPA Regs?” The Daily Caller, February 16, 2016.“Climate Alarmists Want To Flatten Your Beer, Curtail Your Internet, And Make The Poor Poorer,” The Daily Caller, December 3, 2015.RealClear Energy“What’s Next for Energy and Climate Policy?” RealClear Energy, November 16, 2016.“Let the Arguments Begin,” RealClear Energy, September 19, 2016.“Your Damn Children are Killing the Planet,” RealClear Energy, August 25, 2016.“Why Is it So Freaking Hot?” RealClear Energy, July 19, 2016.“Dissent Must Be Silenced,”RealClear Energy, May 17, 2016.“Green Pork Cronyism Invades Science,” April 20, 2016.Resources
=Texas Public Policy FoundationDoug Domenech
Backstory: The Austin, Texas-based conservative think tank was founded in 1989 by James Leininger, a physician and investor. Leininger is a devout Christian conservative with close ties to Energy secretary nominee Rick Perry, according to The Texas Tribune.Key staff: Doug Domenech, who led the Trump administration's transition team for the Interior Department and is now a political aide at that agency, hails from TPPF. He was director of the think tank's Fueling Freedom Project before joining the Trump team. He was also secretary of natural resources in Virginia under then-Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and an Interior official during the Bush administration.
Kathleen Hartnett White of TPPF's Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment, who was rumored to be in the mix for Trump's EPA administrator and is considered a possible pick to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality. White, a former Texas regulator, was a Trump adviser on the campaign trail. She has argued that treating carbon dioxide like a pollutant is damaging to the U.S. energy sector (Greenwire, Nov. 28, 2016).
Energy/environmental platform: The group advocates for a pivot toward state autonomy and "less burdensome" regulations. Views pushed by TPPF's personalities — like support for fossil fuels, questions about climate change and calls for regulatory changes — have spurred attacks from critics including environmental and consumer groups (Energywire, Dec. 6, 2016).=President Trump this morning nominated a former lobbyist who initially ran his Interior transition team to be the department's second-highest-ranking official. https://www.eenews.net/energywire/stories/1060054375 David Bernhardt, a veteran of both Capitol Hill and the George W. Bush administration's Interior Department, is chairman of the natural resources department at the law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Until earlier this year, he advocated for the powerful Westlands Water District, a government utility that provides water for California farmers, and Access Industries, a conglomerate owned by a Soviet-born billionaire.Bernhardt has been considered the leading contender for the department's deputy secretary position ever since Doug Domenech, another Bush-era Interior staffer, took over the transition effort late last year (<em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049200" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Greenwire</a>, Jan. 30)."Bernhardt's extensive experience serving under former Interior Secretaries [Gale] Norton and [Dirk] Kempthorne and his esteemed legal career is exactly what is needed to help streamline government and make the Interior and our public lands work for the American economy," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a press release. He noted that Bernhardt's expertise ranges from the Endangered Species Act to outer continental shelf leases and from mining royalties to Indian affairs.Bernhardt's former boss also praised his nomination.
 ="After I became Secretary of the Interior, Dave was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the Solicitor, Interior's highest ranking legal officer," Kempthorne said in a statement. "Dave provided wide counsel based on thoroughly understanding issues being decided. He is thoughtful and fair."Bernhardt will need to be vetted by lawmakers again before he can serve as Zinke's No. 2 and is likely to face tough questions about his former clients and Bush administration record."David Bernhardt is a walking conflict of interest," Center for Western Priorities Media Director Aaron Weiss said in a statement. "If he does not recuse himself from working on issues he has profited from as a lobbyist, he will be the embodiment of the Washington swamp — taking a high-level government job to help his private sector partners cash in. If Bernhardt does recuse himself from all his conflicts, he'll have nothing to work on at Interior."Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has raised concerns about recent moves by the Bureau of Land Management that could benefit Cadiz Inc., a pipeline company represented by Brownstein Hyatt. Cadiz wants to build a 43-mile-long pipeline and pump water from an aquifer under land the company owns to 100,000 households in Southern California, but Feinstein and conservation groups fear it could dry out the Mojave National Preserve (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052743" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Greenwire</a>, April 6).The Western Values Project, a government watchdog group based in Zinke's hometown of Whitefish, Mont., is also suing Interior to obtain documents related to Bernhardt's tenure as the department's solicitor. During that time, the agency was hit by several scandals involving doctored scientific reports and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053553" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Greenwire</a>, April 25).Bernhardt's previous Senate confirmation process also included a few hurdles.Then-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said that year that he believed Bernhardt was not a good pick, claiming the nomination is "not in keeping with the level of qualifications most people would expect for the Interior solicitor" (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/stories/42653" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">E&E News PM</a>, March 15, 2006).Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) then slowed down the process with a procedural move, citing concerns about a rural schools grant program (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/47558/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">E&E Daily</a>, Sept. 11, 2006).In the years since, Bernhardt has made tens of thousands of dollars' worth of political contributions. Last election cycle, for instance, he and his family contributed a total of nearly $35,000 to Republican lawmakers, according to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist_contribs.php?id=Y0000027922L&year=2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">data</a> compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Some of the biggest beneficiaries included Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.A native of the tiny western Colorado oil town of Rifle, Bernhardt grew up hiking, hunting, skiing and riding on the federal lands in Garfield County. He dropped out of high school, choosing instead to get his GED and then a bachelor's degree at the University of Northern Colorado. He interned at the Supreme Court and graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School.Early in his career, he served as a staffer for former Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.).Dale Hall, who served with Bernhardt as Fish and Wildlife Service director, called him "a man with personal and professional integrity that is beyond reproach and has always advocated for the proper implementation of the law." Hall is now the CEO of Ducks Unlimited, a waterfowl conservation group.Bernhardt's nomination comes a month to the day after Zinke told a ranching group that "the president has approved most, if not all" of his picks for key Interior leadership positions (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060052219/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">E&E News PM</a>, March 28).The deputy secretary announcement, however, is the first to emerge from the White House since then, leaving Interior without permanent political leadership picks at the assistant secretary or bureau director levels three months into the Trump administration.=The Honorable Doug Domenech is the Director of the Fueling Freedom Project at TPPF. Prior to joining TPPF he served as secretary of natural resources in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  As a member of the governor’s Cabinet he oversaw six state environmental, natural and historic resource agencies with a combined budget of $480 million and staff of over 2,000.  He also served as a member of the governor’s energy policy team.From 2001 to 2009 Doug served in several positions at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC including White House liaison and deputy chief of staff to two secretaries of the interior.He holds a degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech and worked for many years in the forest industry and with an industry trade association.<p name="3487" id="3487" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-size: small; --baseline-multiplier: 0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Doug Domenech<p name="5697" id="5697" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-size: small; --baseline-multiplier: 0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Employer (current or most recent): Texas Public Policy Foundation<p name="ac71" id="ac71" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-size: small; --baseline-multiplier: 0.179; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Funding source: Private<div>=</div><div>GP </div>12 2016
UK’s biggest energy company, Centrica, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to a Texas-based climate denial think tank strongly linked to Donald Trump’s new energy secretary Rick Perry, Unearthed can reveal. Centrica, which owns British Gas and is a major investor in UK fracking, has made a number of donations to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) over the last five years and says it has no plans to stop.When contacted by Unearthed, Centrica refused to disclose the total sum that it had donated to the group. But a <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/legacy/media/k2/attachments/TPPF%202010%20I-990_donorlistsearchable-1.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">leaked 2010 donor list </a>reveals that its US subsidiary, Direct Energy, was among the TPPF’s largest donors that year with a payment of $20,000.Other donors in 2010 included ExxonMobil, Chevron, the Koch brothers, Devon Energy and a host of other energy companies and climate sceptic funding bodies.The Austin-based think tank has played a central role in the US <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434086/climate-alarmists-do-violence-earth-day" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">climate denial</a> movement, which is now poised to take control of energy and environmental policy under Donald Trump.Centrica has previously sought to position itself as corporate leader on climate action. <a href="https://www.centrica.com/investors/financial-reporting/Centrica-Annual-Report-2015" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">In its last annual report the firm boasted</a>: “We are also making an important contribution to address big issues in society related to energy: from energy pricing and vulnerability to energy security and climate change.”Responding to the news, Caroline Lucas MP told Unearthed: “For a company that has claimed to be at the forefront of action on climate change, it is simply astounding that Centrica is donating money to climate deniers.” “Now that these links have come to light, we need a clear commitment from Centrica to end all further donations. It is shameful that one of our largest energy companies is linked to this reckless and irresponsible organisation, and I hope an apology will be issued shortly.”Ties to TrumpThe TPPF holds strong relationships with leading Republican politicians, including former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who was <a href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/library/doclib/2010-11-RR11-TenthAmendment-mloyola-posting.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">a senior fellow </a>at the organisation, and new energy secretary Rick Perry.<figure id="attachment_12390" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-12390" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 640px;">
<figcaption id="caption-attachment-12390" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.4px;">Leading Republicans Rick Perry and Ted Cruz have strong links to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which aims to stop CO2 being regulated as a pollutant. Photo]</figcaption></figure> Perry published his 2010 book, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington, with the TPPF, using his author’s note to praise the think tank for its role in fighting the “perils of environmental policy based on the hysteria of global warming.”The think tank’s ties to the new Trump administration also include Doug Domenech, who is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/donald-trump-environment-climate-change-skeptics" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">leading Donald Trump’s </a>department of interior transition team.Domenech, a former department of interior staffer under George W. Bush, leads the TPPF’s <a href="http://fuelingfreedomproject.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">“Fueling Freedom” project</a>, which aims to “end the regulation of CO2 as a pollutant” and collaborates with the Heritage Foundation to organise an annual <a href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/blog/detail/climate-change-speaking-truth-to-power" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">climate sceptic energy summit </a>in Washington D.C.This year’s event was attended by prominent sceptics, including Senator Jim Inhofe, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Willie Soon</a> and Professor Will Happer, who was caught in an <a href="https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Unearthed undercover sting </a>last year agreeing to hide the fact a fossil fuel company would be funding his research on the benefits of CO2.Centrica’s donationsCentrica has refused to disclose how much it has donated to the TPPF but admitted that it continues to do so and has no plans to stop the payments.According to the Guardian guk<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/16/centrica-has-donated-to-us-climate-change-denying-thinktank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">, </a>the company’s most recent donation was of a similar size to the $20,000 payment in 2010. A Centrica spokesperson told Unearthed: “Centrica has a clear position on climate change and we believe in the need to take material action to reduce the effect of fossil fuels on climate change.”“The TPPF is a non-profit research organization and cannot by law lobby the Texas government or any governmental institution. [guffaw] We share some of their views on the benefits of a well-structured retail electricity market to help consumers get the best possible price and product, fair tax policy for families and businesses, strong schools, quality health care and safe neighborhoods for our customers and employees.”When asked if Centrica felt it had been a mistake to donate core funding to a think tank so at odds with its views on climate change, the spokesperson said: “We do not make contributions to any organization to advocate specifically for a position on the environment. We believe the science on climate change is absolutely clear.”Nick Surgey, Director of Research at the Center for Media and Democracy in the US, told Unearthed:“For decades, the U.S. climate change denial movement has been backed by millions of dollars in secret funding from the fossil fuel industry. Over the past eight years climate denial had been fading in the mainstream, increasingly pushed into the shadows of US politics. But fossil fuel funding for groups like TPPF had continued, mostly in secret, and they are now moving into a position of power and influence.”“With the election of Trump, the deniers are finding themselves with greater access to the incoming administration than they have had for years, possibly more than they have ever had. TPPF presents itself as an independent quasi-academic think tank. It is actually one of the more extreme climate change denial groups in the United States, promoting disinformation about the threat of climate change to the benefit of its corporate funders.”The Texas Public Policy Foundation failed to respond to a request for comment.=President Trump this morning nominated a former lobbyist who initially ran his Interior transition team to be the department's second-highest-ranking official.

David Bernhardt, a veteran of both Capitol Hill and the George W. Bush administration's Interior Department, is chairman of the natural resources department at the law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. Until earlier this year, he advocated for the powerful Westlands Water District, a government utility that provides water for California farmers, and Access Industries, a conglomerate owned by a Soviet-born billionaire.

Bernhardt has been considered the leading contender for the department's deputy secretary position ever since Doug Domenech, another Bush-era Interior staffer, took over the transition effort late last year (Greenwire, Jan. 30).

"Bernhardt's extensive experience serving under former Interior Secretaries [Gale] Norton and [Dirk] Kempthorne and his esteemed legal career is exactly what is needed to help streamline government and make the Interior and our public lands work for the American economy," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in a press release. He noted that Bernhardt's expertise ranges from the Endangered Species Act to outer continental shelf leases and from mining royalties to Indian affairs.

Bernhardt's former boss also praised his nomination.

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Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Insular AreasDoug Domenech is serving as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas, which “carries out the administrative responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior in coordinating federal policy for the territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Assistant Secretary is also responsible for administering and overseeing U.S. federal assistance to the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau under the Compacts of Free Association, as well as providing technical and financial assistance to all the Insular Areas.”
Washington D.C. insider Doug Domenech has passed back and forth between working for the federal government and lobbying it, starting when George W. Bush was elected. In 2001, he joined the Department of the Interior, working his way up into some of the highest level positions at the Bush administration’s DOI.
Immediately after leaving the federal government, he started to lobby for oil and energy companies. In 2010, Domenech became Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources, where he was a vocal supporter of drilling off the Virginia coastline. Before returning to work for the federal government, Domenech was the director an initiative to trumpet the “‘forgotten moral case for fossil fuels'” founded by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is heavily funded by big oil, including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, and Koch Industries. He wrote that the BLM conducted “an outright assault on constitutional principles” when the department sought to oversee federal land that an Oklahoma judge ruled belonged to the public 30 years ago.
Sources: [“Who We Are,” United States Department of the Interior, accessed 06/27/17, “Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17, LinkedIn Profile for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17, “Domenech, Doug,” Center For Responsive Politics, accessed 01/30/17, “Company Overview of Qteros, Inc.,” Bloomberg, accessed 02/20/17, “SunEthanol renames as Qteros, raises $25M Series B fund,” Boston Business Journal, 11/18/08, Alison Fitzgerald, “Virginia Tries to Circumvent Obama on Drilling,” New York Times, 11/13/12, Jim Babb, “Domenech Part II: Climate Change, Oil Drilling, Conservation Easements,” Roanoke Times, 6/26/10, Brooke Rollins and Kathleen Hartnett White, “Doug Domenech Joins TPPF as Director of Fueling Freedom Project,” Texas Public Policy Foundation, 03/30/15, Forrest Wilder, “Revealed: The Corporations and Billionaires that Fund the Texas Public Policy Foundation,” Texas Observer, 08/24/12, Doug Domenech, “America and Executive Fiat,” Townhall, 12/29/15, Jim Malewitz, “Blurred Lines: Dispute Between Texas, BLM Has Complicated History,” Texas Tribune, 04/28/14, and Department of Interior, Press Release, 09/14/17]
Special InterestsBackground InformationPrevious EmployersForest Resources AssociationNational Center for Home EducationUnited States Department of the InteriorArtemis StrategiesChrysalis Energy PartnersVirginia Department of Natural ResourcesTexas Public Policy FoundationAdditional Background on Employers of Note:
In 1981, Doug Domenech began his career in the forest products industry, going to work for the Forest Resources Association (FRA).
The FRA “represents the interests of nearly 500 organizations and businesses in the forest products industry” and “promote[s] the public policy interests of the forest products industry’s supply chain on Capitol Hill.”
In 1981, Doug Domenech “went to work for the Forest Resources Association serving as Division Forester in Jackson, MS, and then Charleston, SC.” In 1990, he became the “Director of Forestry Programs at the FRA’s headquarters in Washington, DC.”
The Forest Resources Association “represents the interests of nearly 500 organizations and businesses in the forest products industry.” It aims to “promote the interests of forest products industry members,” and in particular it works to “promote the public policy interests of the forest products industry’s supply chain on Capitol Hill.”
[“Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17, “Mission,” Forest Resources Association, accessed 02/23/17 and “About the Forest Resources Association,” Forest Resources Association, accessed 02/23/17]
Doug Domenech held high-level positions in the Department of the Interior in the George W. Bush administration.
From 2001 to 2009 he was the Deputy Director of External and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House Liaison, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Secretary, and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Insular Affairs.
Doug Domenech, from May 2008 to January 2009, served “as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Insular Affairs where he managed U.S. relations” with “US Territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Freely Associated States of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands.”
[“Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17, “Doug Domenech Will Head Insular Affairs at Interior,” U.S. Department of the Interior, 05/09/08, and LinkedIn Profile for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17]
When Doug Domenech served as the Bush White House’s liaison at Interior.
When Doug Domenech served as the Bush White House’s liaison at Interior, he allegedly had ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Domenech reportedly “would take calls from Abramoff operative Italia Federici, who would inform him of what Abramoff wanted” and then Domenech would “convey the message.”
In 2005, Wayne Smith, “the point man at Interior for Indian casino policy,” said “Domenech would take calls from Abramoff operative Italia Federici, who would inform him of what Abramoff wanted” and then “Domenech would then convey the message to Smith.” Federici was “a key link between Abramoff and Interior Department officials on gambling issues, though she was running a nonprofit group that was supposed to be focused on environmental issues.”
[Zachary Roth, “Bush Interior Official To Run Virginia Natural Resources Department,” Talking Points Memo, 01/06/10, and Anne Mulkern and Mike Soraghan, “Lobbyists under scrutiny,” Denver Post, 06/18/05]
Both before and after Doug Domenech worked in the George W. Bush administration, he was a federal lobbyist.
After leaving, he lobbied for various energy clients, including Qteros, a biofuels company partly funded by BP.
Doug Domenech, from 1995 to 2001, was the Executive Director at the National Center for Home Education. From 1999 until 2001 he was a registered lobbyist for the Home School Defense Association.
[LinkedIn profile for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17, and “Domenech, Doug,” Center For Responsive Politics, accessed 01/30/17]
From 2009 to 2010 Doug Domenech was a Senior Vice President of, and registered federal lobbyist for, Artemis Strategies, a “Washington, DC based government relations and strategic communications firm.” At Artemis Strategies he lobbied on behalf of various clients, including Walzak Risk Analysis, the Heinz Corporation, the Manufacturers Association of Israel, and the Organization for International Investments.
[“Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17, LinkedIn Profile for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17, and “Domenech, Doug,” Center For Responsive Politics, 2009]
While at Artemis Strategies he also had energy companies as clients. He lobbied the federal government on behalf of Public Service Enterprise Group, a New Jersey-based energy company that operates natural gas, coal, and oil-fired electric plants. Public Service Energy Group’s subsidiary PSEG Fossil, in 2007, was forced to pay a $6 million penalty to the EPA for “failure to comply with a 2002 order for upgrades” to reduce pollution.
In 2010, New Jersey State Senator Bob Smith accused Public Service Electric & Gas, a subsidiary of Public Service Enterprise Group, of failing “to pay state-mandated energy surcharges for over a decade” and called for Attorney General Paula Dow to investigate. Smith said the company’s violations “‘may possibly have created a greater burden for the millions of other energy customers in our state.'” At Artemis Strategies, Domenech also lobbied on behalf of Qteros, a biofuels company that “focuses on developing and providing biomass-to-ethanol conversion process technologies.” In addition to other funders, Qteros is funded by both BP and SorosFund Management LLC.
[“Domenech, Doug,” Center For Responsive Politics, accessed 01/30/17, “PSEG Power: Committed to Operational Excellence,” Public Service Enterprise Group, accessed 01/30/17, John Holl, “Public Service Energy Unit To Clean Up Two Coal Plants,” New York Times, 03/18/07, Abby Gruen, ” Probe of PSEG Power surcharges requested,” Star-Ledger, 05/08/10, “Smith Calls On Attorney General To Investigate Allegations Of Pseandg Affiliate’s Decade-Long Free Ride,” States News Service, press release, 05/07/10, “Company Overview of Qteros, Inc.,” Bloomberg, accessed 02/20/17, and “SunEthanol renames as Qteros, raises $25M Series B fund,” Boston Business Journal, 11/18/08]
Doug Domenech was also “a principal at Chrysalis Energy Partners.” Chrysalis Energy Partners was an “energy consulting firm focused on conventional and renewable energy sources.” It was affiliated with Artemis Strategies.
[“Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17, LinkedIn Profile for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17, and “Chrysalis Energy Partners to provide green energy consulting,” Electric Light and Power, 02/05/09]
As Virginia’s Secretary of Natural Resources, Doug Domenech was a vocal supporter of drilling off the Virginia coastline, called the potential Atlantic oil reserves like “‘looking at a bunch of Christmas gifts that are wrapped.'”
Domenech was also critical of the EPA’s efforts to clean Chesapeake Bay, regulate greenhouse gasses, and regulate mountaintop mining.
Doug Domenech was “appointed Virginia’s Secretary of Natural resources in January 2010 by Governor Robert F. McDonnell.”
[“Doug Domenech, Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia,” Loudon County Public Schools, accessed 01/30/17]
While he was Secretary of Natural Resources, Doug Domenech wanted to sell oil leases off the shore of Virginia. Following the Deepwater oil spill, Domenech said he was “hopeful that we might be able to go forward with a lease sale.” Domenech, who believes whatever Atlantic state starts offshore drilling first “‘will have the advantage,'” said about the speculated oil in the Atlantic Ocean was like “‘looking at a bunch of Christmas gifts that are wrapped.'”
[Alison Fitzgerald, “Virginia Tries to Circumvent Obama on Drilling,” New York Times, 11/13/12, Tennile Tracy, “New Energy Industry Push For Drilling in the Atlantic,” Wall Street Journal, 11/19/12, and Jim Babb, “Domenech Part II: Climate Change, Oil Drilling, Conservation Easements,” Roanoke Times, 6/26/10]
In 2010, Doug Domenech said, “the EPA is really leaning forward in a shocking way with its regulation on the Chesapeake Bay as well as its regulation of greenhouse gasses and mountaintop mining. And there are lots of other new rules coming down the pike.” He continued, “I’m not trying to say that some of those regulations aren’t needed. I’m just saying it will have a big impact on the business climate and every company that employs people in the Commonwealth.
The thing that frustrates me is that we don’t seem to have the capacity in this country to take the economy into account and say, ‘Is there a way we can slow this down until we can pull ourselves out of this very bad economy?’ These things are coming at us in a way that people will lose their jobs, and that scares us more than anything else.”
[Jim Babb, “Domenech: EPA Should Back Off Regulation Until Economy Improves,” The Roanoke Times, 07/12/10]
Since 2015, Doug Domenech has worked as the director of the “Fueling Freedom Project.”
Since 2015, Doug Domenech has worked as the director of the “Fueling Freedom Project,” an entity created by the Texas Public Policy Foundation to trumpet the “‘forgotten moral case for fossil fuels.'” The Texas Public Policy Foundation, whose board of directors is “stacked with oil industry executives and GOP activists,” is also heavily funded by big oil, including ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy, and Koch Industries.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation has received at least $10,000 from ExxonMobil, $5,000 from ConocoPhillips, and $5,000 from Devon Energy, as well as more than $220,000 in funding from Koch brother affiliates, including $159,834 from Koch Industries.
[Forrest Wilder, “Revealed: The Corporations and Billionaires that Fund the Texas Public Policy Foundation,” Texas Observer, 08/24/12, Brooke Rollins and Kathleen Hartnett White, “Doug Domenech Joins TPPF as Director of Fueling Freedom Project,” Texas Public Policy Foundation, 03/30/15, Robin Bravender, “Trump’s energy team overhauled,” Greenwire, 11/21/16, “Revealed: The Corporations and Billionaires that Fund the Texas Public Policy Foundation,” Texas Observer, 08/24/12, and Steven Mufson, “Trump’s energy-policy advisers have ties to oil industry” Washington Post, 11/29/16]
Congressman Raúl Grijalva, in 2015, said “the Texas Public Policy Foundation… received $500,000 in funds from the Charles G. Koch Foundation and $2.5 million from Donors Trust, a think tank that advocates for limited government, from 2003 to 2010.”
[Gayathri Vaidyanathan, “Democrat behind probe of climate scientists targets former Texas official,” ClimateWire, 04/30/15]
“The foundation has a board of directors stacked with oil industry executives and GOP activists.”
[Steven Mufson, “Trump’s energy-policy advisers have ties to oil industry,” The Washington Post, 11/30/16]
Political ConnectionsDoug Domenech has contributed $24,700 to conservative candidates and causes, including the Republican National Committee, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, George Allen, Dave Brat, and Ken Cuccinelli.
[CQ Political Moneyline Search for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17, and National Institute on Money in State Politics Search for Doug Domenech, accessed 01/30/17]
Current ActivityIn October 2017, a month after he started his job as Secretary of Insular Affairs, Doug Domenech “bought more than $15,000 of stock in a mining company that does business with the Interior Department.”
Domenech “purchased between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of shares in Compass Minerals, a Kansas-based company that produces salt, potash and fertilizers. Its two salt production areas are in the Great Salt Lake in Utah and salt caverns in Louisiana.
Compass has won contracts with the departments of Interior, Defense, Transportation and Veterans Affairs going at least as far back as 2011 for chemicals and road clearing.” In 2017, “Interior paid the company $15,000.”
[Ben Lefebvre, “Interior official buys shares in salt mine company that does business with department,” Politico Pro, 02/05/18]
FinancialsOn October 31, 2017, Doug Domenech divested of 275 shares of Freeport-McMoran Inc. stock and Domenech and his wife divested of 180 shares of Chevron stock. They divested of these stocks because an Interior ethics officials “determine[d] that the divestiture of the described property [was] reasonably necessary to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 208, or other applicable Federal conflict of interest statutes, regulations, rules, or executive orders.”
[Certificate No. OGE-2017-184, Office of Government Ethics, 10/31/17 and Certificate No. OGE-2017-185, Office of Government Ethics, 10/31/17]
Domenech continues to hold tens of thousands of dollars of shares in other energy-related and pipeline companies, including Enbridge Inc., DTE Energy, Chesapeake Utilities, Energy Transfer Partners, Farrellgas Partners, Spectra Energy Partners, Valero Energy Corporation, and HollyFrontier.
[Douglas Domenech, OGE 278e Form, 2017]
Financial Disclosure- 05/11/17
Certificates of Divestiture
Financial Disclosure- 12/01/17
[Office of Government Ethics]
Department of the Interior Salary: $161,900
[Douglas Domenech, ProPublica’s Trump Town, accessed 03/14/18]
Other InformationDoug Domenech praised the incoming Trump administration for its pledge to “open federal lands – onshore and offshore – for oil and gas production.”
He claimed that the Obama administration imposed a “restrictive agenda on traditional land management practices on federal lands,” which inhibited energy production.
Doug Domenech, in November 2016, praised the incoming Trump administration for pledging to “open federal lands – onshore and offshore – for oil and gas production.” Domenech also commended them for saying they would revoke “unnecessary restrictions on innovative exploration technologies, [rescinding] the coal mining lease moratorium, and [conducting] a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration.” Domenech went on to claim that the “Obama Administration…used its power to impose a restrictive agenda on traditional land management practices on federal lands,” which “impeded energy production.”
[Doug Domenech, “What’s Next for Energy and Climate Policy?,” Real Clear Energy, 11/16/16]
Doug Domenech said that he supports “expanded logging in national forests,” because he believes that national forests were “set up to be the wood supplier of America.”
During a 2010 interview Doug Domenech was asked if he would support “expanded logging in national forests.” Domenech responded, “I would hope there would be expanded logging. People have forgotten why we have national forests and why we have national parks. When they were first set up, the idea was that parks would be areas that would be set aside for enjoyment and aesthetics. National forests were initially set up to be the wood supplier of America.
What’s happened over time is the environmental community has continued to ratchet down in such a way that national forests have not been used for logging. And so the payments that the forests would give to local counties in lieu of taxes have been down, and the wood supply has been down. You see that more in the Western U.S., an area very dependent on timber from federal sources. For the most part, sawmills and pulp mills in that part of the country have just gone away because the supply of wood has disappeared. In Virginia, we’re not as dependent on federal forests, so it hasn’t hurt us as badly. And I believe we have officially encouraged the new plan to allow for additional timber cutting on national forests.”
[Jim Babb, “Domenech part II: climate change, oil drilling, conservation easements,” Roanoke Times, 07/25/10]
In December 2015, Doug Domenech wrote that some called BLM’s move “to take thousands of acres of Texas land from homeowners and ranchers along the Red River even though many Texans live on that land” an “outright assault on constitutional principles.” In reality, it had been “30 years since an Oklahoma judge ruled that the land belonged to the federal government, to be overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.” This became a dispute after the BLM decided what to do with the land, despite North Texans having “long considered [it] theirs.”
[Doug Domenech, “America and Executive Fiat,” Townhall, 12/29/15 and Jim Malewitz, “Blurred Lines: Dispute Between Texas, BLM Has Complicated History,” Texas Tribune, 04/28/14]
Doug Domenech, an admitted “climate change skeptic,” believes the issue of climate change “is not settled,” because to him it does not “make sense” that carbon dioxide “would be the driver of climate change.” He has called people trying to combat climate change “climate alarmists.”
In a 2010 interview Doug Domenech said, “I’m all for renewable energy sources, but I would say to you that the science behind climate change is not settled. I know there’s a lot of debate about it.”
In a follow-up question Domenech was asked, “why are you a climate change skeptic?” to which he responded, “there are several reasons, and a lot of it goes back to problems that have surfaced…in the reliability and validity of the research that supports the idea that man is affecting the climate. ‘Climategate’ revealed a pattern of mismanagement of temperature data. They clearly had interference with peer review, where certain research papers were suppressed. It was very overt and embarrassing to the academic community.” He continued, “people forget some basic things: first, that CO2…is a really, really small proportion of the earth’s atmosphere, and that we’re changing that proportion in a very small way.
It seems not to make sense that CO2 would be the driver of climate change. We forget that, when you look at the data, the temperature on earth has always been changing. What would be weird would be if it didn’t change. Over hundreds of thousands of years there have been radical changes in the earth’s temperature. People forget that there were glaciers all throughout North America that melted well before we were using coal for fuel and well before people were driving SUVs. So, there are some factors here that just make me feel this issue is not settled. And we need to rely on solid science as we decide some of these things.”
[Jim Babb, “Domenech part II: climate change, oil drilling, conservation easements,” Roanoke Times, 07/25/10]
In a 2016 editorial, Doug Domenech wrote, “just as with the dire predictions of 1970, climate alarmists are once again predicting the end of the world as we know it” with the “culprit” being “carbon dioxide.” He wrote that for the United States to achieve the target reduction laid out for them in the 2015 Paris United Nations Climate Agreement, the U.S. “would have to wreak havoc on the economy, jobs, and electricity rates – and, in the process, on the lives of millions of people.” He also wrote that the Paris agreement “will not” result in tangible benefits to society.
[Doug Domenech, “Earth Day Betrayed,” National Review, 04/14/16]
In another 2016 editorial, Doug Domenech praised speakers who participated in the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s annual event, saying that the event speakers were a “merry band of warriors” who brought a “dose of sanity to the too often hyperbolic discussion of climate change.” Domenech continued, “the climate change we are experiencing is by no means catastrophic,” and “climate models are like political polling.” He also said that “keeping fossil fuels in the ground is a ridiculous construct.”
[Doug Domenech, “Climate change: Speaking truth to power,” The Hill, 12/13/16]
Doug Domenech argued that halting the EPA’s Clean Power Plan “‘is a victory for all Americans.'”
In response to the Supreme Court’s stay of the EPA’s “Clean Power Plan” Doug Domenech said in a press release, “‘the U.S. Supreme Court’s issuance of a stay on the implementation of the so-called Clean Power Plan is a victory for all Americans – and especially those in low-income and marginalized communities who would be hit hardest by this Washington, D.C., scheme that would raise electrical rates for households, deprive communities of power, and deny jobs and prosperity to those who need them most.'”
[Doug Domenech, “TPPF Statement on SCOTUS Stay of Clean Power Plan,” Fueling Freedom Project, 02/09/16]
Doug Domenech supported building a Walmart near a national historic battlefield, arguing “sometimes, we love our history a little too much.”
Doug Domenech, in a 2010 interview, said, “sometimes, we love our history a little too much. I see this with the National Park Service, too, where people not only preserve the important item – the house, the battlefield, the park – but at the same time they want to protect whatever they can see from that area,” including Walmart stores. He continued, “I think, we need to be very careful about that, so that the historians should not be infringing on the private property rights of land that they don’t own.”
[Jim Babb, “Domenech Part II: Climate Change, Oil Drilling, Conservation Easements,” Roanoke Times, 06/26/10]===

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"After I became Secretary of the Interior, Dave was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the Solicitor, Interior's highest ranking legal officer," Kempthorne said in a statement. "Dave provided wide counsel based on thoroughly understanding issues being decided. He is thoughtful and fair."

Bernhardt will need to be vetted by lawmakers again before he can serve as Zinke's No. 2 and is likely to face tough questions about his former clients and Bush administration record.

"David Bernhardt is a walking conflict of interest," Center for Western Priorities Media Director Aaron Weiss said in a statement. "If he does not recuse himself from working on issues he has profited from as a lobbyist, he will be the embodiment of the Washington swamp — taking a high-level government job to help his private sector partners cash in. If Bernhardt does recuse himself from all his conflicts, he'll have nothing to work on at Interior."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has raised concerns about recent moves by the Bureau of Land Management that could benefit Cadiz Inc., a pipeline company represented by Brownstein Hyatt. Cadiz wants to build a 43-mile-long pipeline and pump water from an aquifer under land the company owns to 100,000 households in Southern California, but Feinstein and conservation groups fear it could dry out the Mojave National Preserve (Greenwire, April 6).

The Western Values Project, a government watchdog group based in Zinke's hometown of Whitefish, Mont., is also suing Interior to obtain documents related to Bernhardt's tenure as the department's solicitor. During that time, the agency was hit by several scandals involving doctored scientific reports and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff (Greenwire, April 25).

Bernhardt's previous Senate confirmation process also included a few hurdles.

Then-Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said that year that he believed Bernhardt was not a good pick, claiming the nomination is "not in keeping with the level of qualifications most people would expect for the Interior solicitor" (E&E News PM, March 15, 2006).

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) then slowed down the process with a procedural move, citing concerns about a rural schools grant program (E&E Daily, Sept. 11, 2006).

In the years since, Bernhardt has made tens of thousands of dollars' worth of political contributions. Last election cycle, for instance, he and his family contributed a total of nearly $35,000 to Republican lawmakers, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Some of the biggest beneficiaries included Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

A native of the tiny western Colorado oil town of Rifle, Bernhardt grew up hiking, hunting, skiing and riding on the federal lands in Garfield County. He dropped out of high school, choosing instead to get his GED and then a bachelor's degree at the University of Northern Colorado. He interned at the Supreme Court and graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School.

Early in his career, he served as a staffer for former Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.).

Dale Hall, who served with Bernhardt as Fish and Wildlife Service director, called him "a man with personal and professional integrity that is beyond reproach and has always advocated for the proper implementation of the law." Hall is now the CEO of Ducks Unlimited, a waterfowl conservation group.

Bernhardt's nomination comes a month to the day after Zinke told a ranching group that "the president has approved most, if not all" of his picks for key Interior leadership positions (E&E News PM, March 28).

The deputy secretary announcement, however, is the first to emerge from the White House since then, leaving Interior without permanent political leadership picks at the assistant secretary or bureau director levels three months into the Trump administration.

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The Honorable Doug Domenech is the Director of the Fueling Freedom Project at TPPF.

Prior to joining TPPF he served as secretary of natural resources in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  As a member of the governor’s Cabinet he oversaw six state environmental, natural and historic resource agencies with a combined budget of $480 million and staff of over 2,000.  He also served as a member of the governor’s energy policy team.

From 2001 to 2009 Doug served in several positions at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC including White House liaison and deputy chief of staff to two secretaries of the interior.

He holds a degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech and worked for many years in the forest industry and with an industry trade association.

Doug Domenech

Employer (current or most recent): Texas Public Policy Foundation

Funding source: Private

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</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppfs-fueling-freedom-project-launches-mobile-energy-climate-app" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECAIQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppfs-fueling-freedom-project-launches-mobile-energy-climate-app&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECAIQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">TPPF's Fueling Freedom Project launches mobile energy ...</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.texaspolicy.com › press › tppfs-fueling-fre...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCk8" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIAhAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Jun 22, 2016 — The Honorable Doug Domenech is Director of the Fueling Freedom Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Domenech most recently served as ...</div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CBYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIFhAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-in-michigan-v-epa" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBMQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-in-michigan-v-epa&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBMQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-in-michigan-v-epa" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBMQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-in-michigan-v-epa&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBMQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">Texas Public Policy Foundation statement on U.S. Supreme ...</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.texaspolicy.com › press › texas-public-poli...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmM" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIExAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Jun 29, 2015 — The Honorable Doug Domenech is the Director of the Fueling Freedom Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CBgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIGBAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-michigan-governor-snyders-support-of-clean-power-plan" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBIQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-michigan-governor-snyders-support-of-clean-power-plan&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBIQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-michigan-governor-snyders-support-of-clean-power-plan" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBIQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-michigan-governor-snyders-support-of-clean-power-plan&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBIQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">TPPF statement on Michigan Governor Snyder's support of ...</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.texaspolicy.com › press › tppf-statement-o...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmE" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIEhAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Sep 16, 2015 — Texas Public Policy Foundation's Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech issued the following statement on Michigan Governor Rick ...</div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CBoQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIGhAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-clean-power-plan-final-rule-published-in-federal-register" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA8QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-clean-power-plan-final-rule-published-in-federal-register&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA8QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-clean-power-plan-final-rule-published-in-federal-register" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA8QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/tppf-statement-on-clean-power-plan-final-rule-published-in-federal-register&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA8QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">TPPF statement on Clean Power Plan final rule published in federal ...</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.texaspolicy.com › press › tppf-statement-o...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmQ" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIDxAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Distinguished Senior ... and TPPF's Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech issued the following ...</div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CBQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIFBAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-launches-interstate-power-compact" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBEQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-launches-interstate-power-compact&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBEQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-launches-interstate-power-compact" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBEQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.texaspolicy.com/press/texas-public-policy-foundation-launches-interstate-power-compact&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBEQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">Texas Public Policy Foundation launches Interstate Power ...</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.texaspolicy.com › press › texas-public-poli...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmI" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIERAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">Jul 21, 2015 — The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Fueling Freedom Project today ... said Doug Domenech, Director of TPPF's Fueling Freedom Project.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CBkQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIGRAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBAQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBAQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBAQAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.desmog.com/doug-domenech/&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECBAQAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">Doug Domenech - DeSmog</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.desmog.com › Database Entries</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIEBAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">TPPF's Fueling Freedom project seeks to “Explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels” while “building a multi-state coalition to push back against the EPA ...</div></div></div></div></div><div class="hlcw0c" style="margin-bottom: 44px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div data-hveid="CBcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFSgAegQIFxAA"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/climate-deniers/front-groups/texas-public-policy-foundation-tppf/" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA4QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/climate-deniers/front-groups/texas-public-policy-foundation-tppf/&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA4QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">
</a><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/climate-deniers/front-groups/texas-public-policy-foundation-tppf/" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA4QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/ending-the-climate-crisis/climate-deniers/front-groups/texas-public-policy-foundation-tppf/&ved=2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4QFnoECA4QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); outline: 0px;">Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) - Greenpeace USA</a></h3><div class="TbwUpd NJjxre" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.greenpeace.org › usa › front-groups › texa...</cite></div><div class="B6fmyf" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; text-size-adjust: none;"><cite class="iUh30 qLRx3b tjvcx" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.3; padding-top: 1px;"></cite></div><div class="eFM0qc" style="display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 1px; padding-left: 2px; visibility: visible;"><div class="csDOgf" style="display: inline; visibility: visible; position: absolute;"><div jscontroller="exgaYe" data-acc="n" data-enjspb="true" jsdata="l7Bhpb;;A2gCmU" data-ved="2ahUKEwjBmeH41IT0AhVDUt8KHZBsBf4Q2esEegQIDhAE"><div jsaction="KyPa0e:WZTn;wjOG7e:edHC5b;al5F3e:edHC5b;"><g-popup jsname="Y3ZMZd" jsshadow="" jscontroller="DPreE" jsaction="A05xBd:IYtByb;EOZ57e:WFrRFb;" jsdata="mVjAjf;;A2gClM"><div jsname="oYxtQd"><div jsslot=""><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" tabindex="0" jsaction="Ndrj7;keydown:tXc2mb" jsname="I3kE2c" class="iTPLzd GUHazd lUn2nc eY4mx" aria-label="About this Result" style="cursor: pointer; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 28px; z-index: 1; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 5px; outline: 0px; position: absolute;"><span jsname="Bil8Ae" class="xTFaxe IjabWd z1asCe SaPW2b" style="display: inline-block; fill: rgb(112, 117, 122); height: 18px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; width: 18px; margin-left: 2px; top: 2px;"><svg focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" /><path d="M12 8c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2s-.9-2-2-2-2 .9-2 2 .9 2 2 2zm0 2c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2zm0 6c-1.1 0-2 .9-2 2s.9 2 2 2 2-.9 2-2-.9-2-2-2z" /></div></div></div></g-popup></div></div></div></div></div><div class="IsZvec" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58;"><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; overflow: hidden; -webkit-line-clamp: 2;">TPPF's Fueling Freedom project promotes the “Morality of Fossil Fuels”Doug Domenech–a member of Donald Trump's Interior Department transition ...</div></div></div></div></div></div>==

Ben Domenech

Ben Domenech

Benjamin Domenech is the publisher of The Federalist, host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He was previously a fellow at The Manhattan Institute and a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute; editor in chief of The City, an academic journal on faith and culture; and a speechwriter for HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson and U.S. Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He co-founded Redstate and co-hosted Coffee & Markets, an award-winning economic podcast. His writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Politico, Commentary, Reason, and GQ, and he appears regularly on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS's Face The Nation. He divides his time between Virginia and New York. Email him at ben@thefederalist.com

Bre Payton

Bre Payton is the culture and millennial politics reporter for The Federalist. She has written on subjects ranging from Kanye West to Supreme Court rulings, to 2016 and breaking news. She has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN among others, and her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Daily Signal, WORLD Magazine, and The Daily Caller to name a few. A native Californian, Bre traded her west coast sunshine for an east coast newsroom. She previously worked as a reporter for Watchdog.org and received her degree in Political Journalism from Patrick Henry College. She is based in Washington, DC and can be contacted at bre@thefederalist.com. Follow her on Twitter at @Bre_Payton.

David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of three books. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, National Review, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. David has appeared on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News and dozens of radio talk shows across the country. Reach him at dharsanyi@thefederalist.com

Gracy Olmstead

Gracy Olmstead is associate managing editor at The Federalist and the Thursday editor of BRIGHT, a weekly newsletter for women. Her writings can also be found at The American Conservative, The Week, Christianity Today, Acculturated, The University Bookman, and Catholic Rural Life.

John Daniel Davidson

John Davidson is a senior correspondent at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Texas Monthly, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, The LA Review of Books, n+1, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.

Joy Pullmann

Joy Pullmann is managing editor of The Federalist and author of the forthcoming "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids," from Encounter Books.She previously was managing editor of School Reform News at The Heartland Institute and the assistant editor for American Magazine at the American Enterprise Institute. Joy is also the 2013-14 recipient of a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates.Joy has taught high school and middle school history, literature, and debate, and has written public speaking curriculum. She is a graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs. She and her husband live in the Midwest and have four children ages five and younger. Follow Joy on Twitter.

Madeline Orr

Madeline Orr is the producer of the Federalist Radio Hour.She graduated from Abilene Christian University. Contact her at madeline@thefederalist.com or follow her on Twitter.

Mary Katharine Ham

Mary Katharine Ham is a senior writer at The Federalist. She is a CNN Contributor and recently co-moderated a GOP primary debate on ABC. She is an editor at BRIGHT. She's the co-author of "End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)" and has written for HotAir, The Weekly Standard, and The Daily Caller. A fourth-generation journalist, she did a stint covering NASCAR, high school football, and the county's largest legumes before embracing New Media and heading to Washington DC, where her career goal has been to discover the formula for talking about politics without being a blowhard. She's a mom of two and a Twitter enthusiast who hiked Kilimanjaro on her honeymoon.

Mollie Hemingway

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist. A longtime journalist, her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, CNN, National Review, GetReligion, Ricochet, Christianity Today, Federal Times, Radio & Records and many other publications. Mollie was a 2004 recipient of a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship. Reach her at mzhemingway@thefederalist.com

Ramona Tausz

Ramona Tausz is an intern at The Federalist. She studies English and is a member of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College.

Robert Tracinski

Robert Tracinski is a senior writer at The Federalist. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and for more than 20 years has written about politics, markets, and foreign policy. He has been published in dozens of newspapers, from the Chicago Tribune to the San Francisco Chronicle, and been featured on many radio and television shows, from Rush Limbaugh to “The O’Reilly Factor.” He is an occasional guest host of The Federalist Radio Hour and editor of The Tracinski Letter.

Sean Davis

Sean Davis is a co-founder of The Federalist. He previously worked as an economic policy adviser to Gov. Rick Perry, as CFO of Daily Caller, and as chief investigator for Sen. Tom Coburn. He was named by The Hill as one of the top congressional staffers under the age of 35 for his role in spearheading the enactment of the law that created USASpending.gov. Sean received a BBA in finance from Texas Tech University and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School. He can be reached via e-mail at sean@thefederalist.com.

SENIOR CONTRIBUTORS

Amy Otto

Amy Otto is a senior contributor at The Federalist. Amy’s work has also been published at Townhall, Pocket Full of Liberty, and the UK site The Conservative Woman. She has co-hosted The Wrap and Splintered Caucus, weekly podcasts that covered culture and politics. Follow her on Twitter, @AmyOtto8.

Anna Mussmann

Anna Mussmann is a stay-at-home mom who writes during nap time. She is fascinated by old books, ideas, and historic philosophies of education. Her work can also be found on the blog www.sisterdaughtermotherwife.com.

Andrew Quinn

Andrew Quinn is a writer and strategist based in Washington DC. He works as a director at the American Enterprise Institute, where he coordinates the office and projects of AEI president Arthur Brooks. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist; a freelance writer whose commentary has been published in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere; and a rock and hip-hop musician with several groups in the DC area.

Bethany Mandel

Bethany Mandel is a Senior Contributor at The Federalist and a freelance writer on politics and culture. . She lives with her husband, Seth Mandel, the op-ed editor at the New York Post, and her two children in New Jersey.

D.C. McAllister

Denise C. McAllister is a cultural and political commentator based in Charlotte, NC. She is a senior contributor at The Federalist and her work can be found at several outlets, including PJ Media where she’s a contributor, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air, and Ricochet. She has been a guest on Fox News, CNN, Newsmax TV, Sean Hannity Radio, NPR, BBC Radio, and many other radio programs across the nation. Her book, “A Burning and Shining Light,” is a dramatic narrative about the life and ministry of David Brainerd. She is also a pro-life speaker, advocating for the rights of unborn children. In addition to being a writer, she is a musician and visual artist.

Daniel Payne

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Douglas Domenech, a native of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and resident of Loudoun Conunty, Virginia, is the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Department of the Interior and a Bush Administration appointee to the White House Working Group on the Political Status of Puerto Rico, the body that fashions the Executive Branch's policy regarding Puerto Rico's political future. He was one of the highest-ranking Puerto Ricans in the Federal government at the time.

On January 6, 2010, Governor-elect Bob McDonnell appointed Domenech to serve as Secretary of Natural Resources of the Commonwealth of Virginia,[1] making him the first Hispanic and Puerto Rican to be appointed to McDonnell's cabinet. At the time of his appointment, Domenech, whose background is in forestry management, was working for a lobbying firm. Domenech worked for 12 years for the Forest Resources Association, a national trade association representing the forest products industry.

He is the great-nephew of Manuel V. Domenech, former legislator, Mayor of Ponce, Commissioner of the Interior, Treasurer, and acting Governor of Puerto Rico. He is the father of blogger and columnist Ben Domenech.

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As the state’s top environmental official, Domenech manages six Virginia state agencies, including the departments of Environmental Quality, Conservation and Recreation, Historic Resources, Game and Inland Fisheries, and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, as well as the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

“I can think of no better recipient of this award than Doug Domenech,” said Gov. Bob McDonnell. “Doug is in integral member of our leadership team. He is committed to improving this commonwealth for all Virginians, and his work is making a positive difference in the life of our state.”

“It is clear to me the training he received at Virginia Tech prepared him well for the job of secretary of natural resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia,” McDonnell continued.

Together with the governor, Domenech recognizes the value of Virginia’s natural resources to job creation and the economy. Domenech has been involved in state efforts to conserve open space and land; more than 114,000 acres have been protected since he took office.

He is also working to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay through the development of the Bay Watershed Implementation plans recently submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Much of Virginia’s land mass — 68 counties and 28 cities — is in the bay watershed.

Before his appointment, Domenech was senior vice president at Artemis Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based bipartisan lobbying firm. He was also a principal at Chrysalis Energy Partners, a green energy consulting firm focused on onshore and offshore renewable sources, including biomass, wind, and solar.

Domenech served in the George W. Bush Administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2001 to 2009. While there he held positions as deputy director of external and intergovernmental affairs and White House liaison.

In 2005 he was appointed deputy chief of staff to the Secretary of the Interior, the number-two staff position in the Office of the Secretary, in which he had senior oversight of the U.S./UNESCO World Heritage Program administered by the United Nations, oversaw the Interior Crisis Action Team, and worked with senior managers for all nine Interior bureaus.

Domenech, whose family is from Puerto Rico, also served as acting deputy assistant secretary of insular affairs, where he managed U.S. relations with seven insular areas including the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Prior to serving at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Domenech had a long career in natural resources management. After college he served as the acting director of the Timber Harvesting Management Program at Alabama A&M University, where he conducted field research.

He left in 1981 and spent the next 12 years working for the Forest Resources Association, a national technical trade association representing the forest products industry. He began as a division forester and served as director of forestry programs at the association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., from 1990 to 1993.

Domenech was appointed by Governor George Allen to the Commonwealth Competition Council. Under Governor Jim Gilmore he was appointed to the Virginia Board of Forestry. He also formerly served on the Advisory Council of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico.

He moved to Virginia from Puerto Rico in 1972 and graduated from high school in Richmond. He and his wife, the former Jeanne Schram, a 1979 forestry and wildlife management graduate, have four children.

The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech, which consistently ranks among the top three programs of its kind in the nation, advances the science of sustainability. Programs prepare the future generation of leaders to address the complex natural resources issues facing the planet. World-class faculty lead transformational research that complements the student learning experience and impacts citizens and communities across the globe on sustainability issues, especially as they pertain to water, climate, fisheries, wildlife, forestry, sustainable biomaterials, ecosystems, and geography. Virginia Tech, the most comprehensive university in Virginia, is dedicated to quality, innovation, and results to the commonwealth, the nation, and the world.

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