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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">now at API</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11/2015 DCI dapl?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">Partners</font></h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4">Megan Bloomgren  </font></span>Partner</font><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font face="Times New Roman">DCI Group</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Jun 2011 - Jan 2017</b> 5 years 8 months</font></span></div></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Combs</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jennifer Cutler</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Doug Goodyear</font></span></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ryan Grillo</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tim Hyde</font></a></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Kemp</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Brian McCabe</font></span></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian Myers</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew O'Brien</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justin Peterson</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Susan Reiche</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kelley Robertson</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Ryan</font></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Tom Synhorst</font></a></span></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Senior Vice President Communications</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">API - American Petroleum Institute</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Jun 2017 - Present 4 years 5 months</span></div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>
</div><div>U.S. Department of the Interior </div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>Acting</b> Communications Director</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">U.S. Department of the Interior</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Jan 2017 - May 2017 5 months</span></div><div>
</div><div>Washington D.C. Metro Area</div><div>
</div><div>DCI Group </div><div>Partner</div><div>DCI Group</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Jun 2011 - Jan 2017 5 years 8 months</span></div><div>
</div><div>Washington D.C. Metro Area</div><div>
</div><div>U.S.<b> Chamber of Commerce </b></div><div><b>VP, Strategy - Institute for 21st Century Energy</b></div><div>U.S. Chamber of Commerce</div><div>May 2008 - Jun 2011 3 years 2 months</div><div>
</div><div>U.S. Department of Energy </div><div>Press Secretary & Deputy Director of Public Affairs</div><div><b>U.S. Department of Energy</b></div><div>Mar 2006 - May 2008 2 years 3 months</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">White House Council on Environmental Quality </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Deputy Communications Director</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">White House Council on Environmental Quality</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Jul 2005 - Mar 2006 9 months</span></div><div>
</div><div>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency </div><div>Deputy Press Secretary</div><div><b>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</b></div><div><b>Jan 2005 - Jul 2005 7 months</b></div><div>
</div><div>55th Presidential Inaugural Committee </div><div>Media Relations</div><div>55th Presidential Inaugural Committee</div><div>Dec 2004 - Jan 20052 months</div><div>
</div><div>Bush-Cheney '04 </div><div>Press Logistics</div><div>Bush-Cheney '04</div><div>May 2004 - Nov 20047 months</div><div>
</div><div><b>Accenture </b></div><div>Consultant (Government Practice)</div><div>Accenture</div><div>Jun 2001 - May 20043 years</div><div>
</div><div><b>Bush Cheney '00</b> </div><div>Staff Advance, Bush Cheney 2000</div><div>Bush Cheney '00</div><div>2000 - 2000less than a year</div><div>
</div><div>Education</div><div>La Salle University</div><div>
</div><div><b>1997 - 2001</b></div><div>
</div><div>Gwynedd Mercy Academy</div><div>
</div><div> Sommers</div><div>President and CEO at American Petroleum Institute</div><div>
</div><div>Alexandria, VA</div><div>
</div><div>Amanda Eversole</div><div>Chief Operating Officer at API - American Petroleum Institute</div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>
</div><div>Lynn Granger</div><div>Executive Director at API - American Petroleum Institute Colorado</div><div>
</div><div>Denver Metropolitan Area</div><div>
</div><div>Afsana Bristow</div><div>GIS Sr. Associate at American Petroleum Institute</div><div>
</div><div>Houston, TX</div><div>
</div><div>Mendy Millon</div><div>Business Project Manager at API - American Petroleum Institute</div><div>
</div><div>Humble, TX</div><div>
</div><div>Mark Green</div><div>Master's degree at American University</div><div>
</div><div>Norman, OK</div><div>
</div><div>Anne Bradbury</div><div>CEO at American Exploration and Production Council</div><div>
</div><div>Washington DC-Baltimore Area</div><div>
</div><div><b>Rob Clark</b></div><div><b>Head of Global Communications at ExxonMobil</b></div><div>
</div><div>Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">james jack</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">ceo at API</span></div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>
</div><div>Ana Filgueras</div><div>Associate Monogram/ APIQR Program at API</div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC</div><div>
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</div><div>Utah Tribe Calls Biden’s Order On New Oil Drilling A ‘Direct Attack’ On Its Economy</div><div>
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</div><div>CHUCK ROSS</div><div>INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER</div><div>January 24, 2021</div><div>
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</div><div>A Native American tribe in Utah said a<b> Biden administration order blocking new permits to drill for oil and gas on federal lands is a “direct attack” on its economy and sovereignty.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The Ute Indian Tribe is seeking a waiver from <b>Order 3395, which Scott de la Vega, the acting secretary of the interior, implemented on Jan. 21.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The order pauses the issuance of new permits for oil and gas drilling on federal lands for 60 days. The order does not impact ongoing drilling, but President Joe Biden has said that he wants to ban drilling and fracking on all federal lands as part of a broader effort to fight climate change.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Biden has also said that he is open to banning fracking altogether, even on private land.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland, who Biden has nominated to lead the Department of the Interior, has also said she is “wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>While some Native tribes oppose energy drilling on their lands, the Ute tribe says that drilling permits are vital to its economy.</div><div>
</div><div>“Your order is a direct attack on our economy, sovereignty, and our right to self-determination. Indian lands are not federal public lands,” <b> Luke Duncan, the chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee,</b> wrote to de la Vega on Thursday. (RELATED: Biden Claims He Never Said He Opposed Fracking. Here’s What He Said Previously)</div><div>
</div><div>“Any action on our lands and interests can only be taken after effective tribal consultation.”</div><div>
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</b></div><div><b>According to Reuters, the tribe produces around 45,000 barrels of oil and 900 million cubic feet of natural gas a day through drilling in the Uintah basin.</b></div><div>
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</div><div><b>In another executive order, Biden suspended construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to the U.S.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Energy companies argue that bans on federal drilling and the Keystone pipeline <b>will make the U.S. more dependent on foreign oil and gas and cause losses of hundreds of thousands of American jobs.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Officials in states like New Mexico worry that a permanent ban on drilling on federal lands will severely hurt their economies.</div><div>
</div><div>“Eliminating drilling on public lands will cost thousands of New Mexicans their jobs and destroy what’s left of our state’s economy,” Dale Janway, the mayor of Carlsbad, New Mexico, told The Associated Press on Friday.</div><div>
</div><div>“Environmental efforts should be fair and well-researched, not knee-jerk mandates that just hurt an already impoverished state.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Half of all drilling in New Mexico is conducted on federal lands. </b>State officials have used royalties from oil and gas production to beef up funding for education and other public programs.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">October 31, 2017

Ms. Melinda Loftin

Department of the Interior's Designated Agency Ethics Official

1849 C Street, NW, MS 7346

Washington, DC 20240

Tel: 202-208-7960

Fax: 202-208-5515 </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">Dear Ms. Loftin,

Public Citizen, Climate Investigations Center, and Friends of the Earth respectfully request that

the Office of Ethics of the Department of the Interior determine whether former Acting Deputy

Chief of Staff and Communications Director Megan Bloomgren violated 18 U.S.C. §208(a) by

participating personally and substantially in particular matters in which entities with which she

had arrangements or was negotiating for prospective employment had financial interests.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> We

believe that Bloomgren may have been discussing post-government employment with the

American Petroleum Institute (API) and the DCI Group at the time she participated in

Department of Interior meetings regarding the offshore oil and gas extraction executive order,

and meetings concerning National Monument designations, and meetings with representatives of

the oil and gas industry. API and DCI Group appear to have financial interests in all these

matters</span>. </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">Although key facts remain unknown to us, Public Citizen, Climate Investigations Center

and Friends of the Earth believe that Bloomgren’s participation in the matters should be

investigated as potential violations of 18 U.S.C. §208 for possible referral to the Department of

Justice.1

Bloomgren’s Government and Post-Government Employment

Before joining the administration, Bloomgren served as the Vice President of DCI Group, a

lobbying and crisis communications firm serving the oil and gas industry. <b>DCI Group clients

include ExxonMobil and Energy Transfer Partners.</b> In December 2016, Bloomgren was

appointed to the Department of Interior transition team.

2 Once the new administration took

office, Bloomgren became Acting Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director to

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

3</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">... </font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Accordingly, Public Citizen, Climate Investigations Center and Friends of the Earth </b>request that

the Department of the Interior Ethics Office investigate whether Bloomgren participated in

matters in which API or DCI had financial interests at the time she had an arrangement for

employment and/or was negotiating for future employment with those entities, and determine

whether the matter should be referred to the Department of Justice for investigation into possible

violations of 18 U.S.C. §208.

Sincerely,

Public Citizen

1600 20th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20009

(202) 588-1000

Climate Investigations Center

P.O. Box 91

Alexandria, Virginia 22314

info@climateinvestigations.org

Friends of the Earth

1101 15th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005

(202) 783-7400</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">api 1021</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Sommers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President & CEO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amanda Eversole</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amanda Eversole</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Afonso</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul G. Afonso</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Megan Bloomgren</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Communications</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>megan Barnett Bloomgren serves as the senior vice president of Communications at the American Petroleum Institute (API)</b>, where she leverages her two decades of public affairs experience to direct communications on behalf of the U.S. natural gas and oil industry, including overseeing research activity, paid media campaigns, earned and digital media, and t<b>hought leadership.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to joining API, Ms. Bloomgren served as acting </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director at the U.S. Department of the Interior,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ZINKE </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where she directed communications and media, strategic planning, and policy-related actions. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ms. Bloomgren worked on the Presidential Transition Team with the Interior Secretary nominee </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to prepare for confirmation hearings and first 100 days, including managing all aspects of earned and digital media, rapid response and coalition building.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Bloomgren was previously a partner at a public affairs consulting firm where she led global communications campaigns on energy, chemical, and regulatory issues and specialized in message development, crisis communications, coalition building and <b>grassroots advocacy.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier in her career, Ms. Bloomgren directed strategy and operations for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> She previously served as chief spokesperson for the Secretary of Energy, worked as the deputy director of communications at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and was <b>deputy press secretary at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency</b>. Through her government service, she supported federal communications efforts in more than a dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Ms. Bloomgren got her start working on Congressional campaigns in Pennsylvania and served on the B<b>ush-Cheney 2000 campaign and 2004 re-elect</b>. Ms. Bloomgren also spent three years as a consultant in Accenture's state and local government practice.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Bloomgren is a proud native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduate of La Salle University where she served on the university's board of trustees. She and her family reside in McLean, VA.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The beachhead list for the Interior Department, led by Sec. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/ryan-zinke" target="blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none; font-weight: 500;">Ryan Zinke</a></span>, sees many more alumni from the oil and gas industry. <a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Ryan%20Nichols%20%20LinkedIn.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">Ryan Nichols</span></a>, an Interior employee without a job title listed, formerly served as development director for the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CFACT</span>)</a>, a prominent college campus-based hub of the climate denial machine.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nichols currently serves as an associate director for the Republican Party-allied think-tank, the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/heritage-foundation" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>, which has a federal budget blueprint already borrowed by the Trump administration and another <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2017/03/08/fossil-fuel-funded-heritage-foundation-anti-clean-energy-plan-energy-secretary-rick-perry" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">plan recently released for Sec. Perry and the Department of Energy</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Megan%20Bloomgren%20%7C%20LinkedIn.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">Megan </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">Bloomgren</span></a>, another Interior employee with no listed job title, appears to be serving as the Interior Department’s spokesperson and as a part of its <a href="http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2017/02/02/stories/1060049449" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">communications team</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, based on reporting by GreenWire.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to landing the job at Interior, Bloomgren has gone back and forth through the <b>government-industry revolving door.</b> She worked multiple communications jobs in the George W. Bush administration, including at<b> <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DOE</span>, Council on Environmental Quality (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CEQ</span>), and the Environmental Protection Agency (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">EPA</span>)</b>. Bloomgren also performed press work for the 2004 Bush presidential campaign and later, the Bush Inaugural Committee.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After leaving the Bush administration, Bloomgren began working for the <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">U.S.</span> Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She then moved on to the Republican Party-allied lobbying and public relations firm</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, <a href="https://www.desmog.com/dci-group" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DCI</span> Group</a>.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DCI</span>, as DeSmog revealed, oversaw crisis communications work for Energy Transfer Partners and its <a href="https://www.desmog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Dakota Access pipeline</a> </b>in North Dakota and may have <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2016/09/15/dakota-access-pipeline-fake-twitter-accounts-dci-group" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">helped create fake Twitter profiles</a> depicting young women (and celebrities) espousing pro-pipeline talking points. <b>Among <span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">DCI</span> Group’s former lobbying clients is ExxonMobil. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/Melissa%20M.%20Simpson%20%7C%20LinkedIn.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">Melissa Simpson</span></a>, listed as a special assistant to Sec. Zinke, until recently worked as director of governmental affairs for <b>Safari Club International (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SCI</span>).</b> Safari Club <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/how-safari-club-international-turning-children-wildlife-killers" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">advocates in support</a> of trophy hunting, a practice of hunting prized animals which are <a href="http://www.endangered.org/the-heavy-price-of-trophy-hunting/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">often rare or endangered</a>. She also served as counselor and deputy director of external affairs for the Interior Department under George W. Bush. ...</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p></div>