Banks, David

<div>---</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oops, pretty sure same guy as george David</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div>...</div><div><div style="font-size: small;"><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;">One avowed optimist is the Trump White House's former international climate adviser, George David Banks, who had supported staying in the Paris Agreement.[?] He maintains that the hard-line U.S. stand puts the nation in a stronger negotiating position when it comes to the talks now underway. That's because the rest of the world knows the Trump administration is willing to walk away, he argues."The Trump administration could not have negotiated the Paris Agreement—it took the Obama administration to do that," argues Banks. "But now that the international community has invested so much political capital in the agreement, the Trump administration has much more leverage than a Hillary Clinton administration would have had in finalizing these points. It's an interesting situation."But on top of the changes in Trump's top echelon of foreign policy advisers, recent staff turnover at the White House adds to uncertainty around the future U.S. role in the climate talks.Banks, who served as a climate negotiator in President George W. Bush's administration, resigned from his Trump administration post earlier this year when he could not obtain a security clearance. Trump's top domestic energy adviser, Michael Catanzaro, has also resigned to return to his former lobbying practice. Banks and Catanzaro, both of whom have years of experience working on energy issues, have been replaced by two young newcomers to the field. GOP political operative Wells Griffith, whose only previous experience in energy was a one-year stint in Trump's Energy Department, has been appointed to lead international climate and energy strategy for the White House, while Francis Brooke, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence who moderated a panel on fossil fuels at last year's climate talks, will take Catanzaro's place as top domestic energy adviser.Observers also are watching to see if the Trump administration follows through on a plan, first <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/trump-is-said-to-pick-dobriansky-for-senior-state-department-job" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">reported by Bloomberg</a>, to nominate Paula Dobriansky, who was a lead climate negotiator under President George W. Bush, as undersecretary for political affairs at the State Department. Dobriansky's <a href="https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/2005_hr/051114-dobriansky.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">past statements</a> indicate that she accepts the reality of manmade climate change, although she favors "collaboration, not coercion," and close partnerships with industry. (When Bush backed out of the Kyoto accord, she gave <a href="https://twitter.com/jackcushmanjr/status/989537776092827650" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit;">credit </a>to the oil lobby.)For the time being, Meyer sees the U.S. negotiating team as significantly hampered by its lack of high-level support and the power to deal. If his assessment is correct, even if the U.S. returns to the Paris Agreement in the future, it may be under rules that it was unable to influence."You basically have a loss of leadership," he said. "The [U.S.] team is doing the best they can on the technical rules, but obviously they don't have as much leverage on that issue when they are not playing on other issues. They are negotiating with one hand tied behind their back, and that creates a vacuum that others are trying to figure out how to fill."</div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;">PUBLISHED UNDER:</label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/global-climate-treaty" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">GLOBAL CLIMATE TREATY</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/climate-denial" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">CLIMATE DENIAL</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">CLIMATE CHANGE</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/paris-climate-agreement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT</a></div> <div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trump" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">DONALD TRUMP</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/mike-pompeo" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent;">MIKE POMPEO</a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>OMFG</div><div>=</div><div><div></div><div><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/15/trumps_climate_adviser_david_banks_at">https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/15/trumps_climate_adviser_david_banks_at</a></div><div><div class="story_summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">This year’s U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany, marks the first climate conference since President Donald Trump vowed to pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement, a process that takes four years. We speak with Trump’s climate adviser David Banks, the White House special assistant for international energy and environment, about his views on climate change and the Trump administration’s stance on the role by humans in inducing climate change. This comes one day after the Trump administration made its official debut at COP23 with a forum pushing coal, gas and nuclear power that included speakers from coal company Peabody Energy, a nuclear engineering firm and a gas exporter.</div><hr class="hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 1px; margin: 40px 0px; border: none; clear: both; background: rgb(236, 238, 239);" /></div><div class="mobile_anchor_target" id="transcript" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h5 class="transcript" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1;">Transcript</h5><div class="grey_description fine_print" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 19px;">This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.</div><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 27px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. We’re broadcasting live from the U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany. This is the first climate summit since President Trump vowed to pull the U.S. out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement, a process that takes four years.On Monday, there was a revolt here at the U.N. climate summit as the Trump administration made its official debut at a forum pushing coal, gas and nuclear power. The panel was the only official appearance by the U.S. delegation during this year’s U.N. climate summit and included speakers from coal company Peabody Energy, a nuclear engineering firm and a gas exporter. It also included representatives of Vice President Mike Pence’s office and Trump’s climate adviser, David Banks, the White House special assistant for international energy and environment.On the panel, Banks said he was very accessible to the press, although, well, he has repeatedly refused requests to come on Democracy Now! Yesterday on Democracy Now! during our interview with former Greenpeace head Kumi Naidoo, David Banks lingered just off set, waving to us, but declined to come on the show. However, just after the broadcast, we raced over to David Banks, where a scrum of reporters were questioning him.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243);">AMY GOODMAN: David Banks, do you believe human beings have anything to do with climate change, anything to do with the warming of the planet?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: So, from an administration perspective, I think the president would say the climate is always changing.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Do you believe that human beings are involved with climate change?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Do I? Why are you so interested in what I—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: You’re the representative of the Trump administration here. You’re the first person we’ve been able to speak to here about the Trump administration position.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: No, I think—look, I think that—I think the administration would agree that humans contribute to climate change. Right? I think—I think the question—and by the way, this is not—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: So, do you disagree with the president that climate change is a Chinese hoax?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Look, I mean, I work for the president of the United States, and I support the president’s decisions. Right? I supported the president’s decision when it came to withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Right? You know, the president—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: So, do you believe it’s a Chinese hoax?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Do I believe it’s a Chinese hoax?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Climate change. I’m just quoting the president of the United States, who you work for.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: No, but I think you’re missing the point of the tweet. I mean, look—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Explain it.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Well, no, the point of the tweet was—again, we talked a little bit about this last night. You know, the president views climate change through the lens of, you know—or climate change policy through the lens of, you know, what does this do to U.S. manufacturing, what does it do to U.S. competitiveness, right? And so, you know—and given his—given his focus on trade—right?—and the trade imbalance, particularly how U.S. manufacturing has been devastated, you know, since—particularly since China entered the WTO, you know, I think—<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Well, what about the fact that climate change, sadly, has been a bonanza for China, because it is now excelling in Chinese renewables, that we now buy back in the United States, and the president is holding U.S. manufacturers back from this? Kathleen—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Well, I don’t think—no, he’s not holding manufacturers back.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Kathleen Hartnett White, the environmental policy adviser—Kathleen Hartnett White, the environmental policy adviser, said that solar power is “parasitic,” to quote her.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: You know, I love—I love these quotes that you’re pulling out. No, I mean, look, look, the president—the president is not holding back renewables, right? One of the key objectives of the president and this administration is to make sure that we truly do pursue an all-of-the-above approach—right?—to make sure that all energy sources and forms have as much of a level playing field as possible, right? We believe in competitive markets for energy. I think—but your point on China, though, is an interesting point. So when you’re looking at our solar manufacturing sector, again—I mean, I was—I was really surprised by how devastating trade has been for our solar manufacturing. Right? And the—and look, China is not a market economy. If China says, “Hey, you know, here’s a sector of the economy that we want to go after”—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: What about if the U.S. government gave subsidies to wind and [solar] power and other renewable technologies in the same way it gives subsidies to the oil industry, to the fossil fuel industry?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: I think, look—look, people love to make the comparison. I’m happy to talk about subsidies, but that’s kind of an apples-to-oranges conversation, right? Because oil—if you just look at oil, oil—I think maybe we use—maybe oil accounts for maybe 1 percentage point of U.S. power generation, maybe. Maybe. And I think that’s probably right. But no, I mean, look—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: And you’re pushing for a higher percentage for coal right now. That’s what the panel was doing.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: No, no, no, we’re not—no, no, no, no. I think, no, we’re not pushing for a higher percentage. I think if my domestic policy colleagues were here, they would say we just—you know, we want to make sure that we—that coal has a level playing field and that it doesn’t—that it’s not facing, you know, burdensome regulations that prevent it from being competitive.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell me why there weren’t representatives of solar and wind on the panel yesterday, just nuclear, gas and coal? Why—this is the U.S.—one of the people who was in the audience said, “What is this? QVCshopping network?” You’re selling coal, gas—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: QVC—we’re not selling coal or gas—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Coal, gas and nuclear power. Where was—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: —or nuclear power.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: Where was solar and wind?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: What was the conversation about?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: For level playing field, where was solar and wind, as well?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: We didn’t need to include renewables on the panel, because renewables are everywhere in the COP, right? We want to make sure that we have a rational discussion on technology innovation—right?—for fossil, and make sure that nuclear has a good plug for, as well—right?—because of the role it plays in climate mitigation, not only in the United States, but across the world.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: David Banks, you said that you wouldn’t—that you don’t disagree with the president, when he is a proud climate change denier. How is it that you can go against the consensus of more than 95 percent of the world’s scientists? Are you a scientist yourself, with different kind of data than the rest of the world has?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: I am not a scientist, but, you know, I’m an economist, and so, therefore, I understand—</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: So these are scientists, talking about climate change.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: —the global economy and the—yes.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: So, are you saying it’s not that you disagree that humans are involved with climate change, you just disagree with the solutions for the problem of the world’s seas rising? You actually believe human beings are involved with climate change, but you disagree with how to deal with that?</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: I think the administration would say that humans contribute to climate change, right? I think the real disagreement is the policy that’s often presented.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">AMY GOODMAN: That’s not what President Trump said. They say that climate change is a hoax.</blockquote><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px; border-left: 3px solid rgb(241, 242, 243); letter-spacing: -0.2px; padding-top: 30px !important;">DAVID BANKS: Well, I think—no, I think—I think the president would say that—I think the president would strongly disagree with the policies that were put together by the previous administration, that would have severely harmed the American economy.</blockquote>AMY GOODMAN: That’s David Banks, the White House special assistant for international energy and environment. He’s Trump’s climate adviser. When we come back, we’ll get response from the renowned climate scientist Kevin Anderson. Stay with us.</blockquote></div></div></div><div>
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</div><div>A senior Republican staffer who scolded oil and gas lobbyists in the spring for working too closely with the White House is leaving his post as deputy staff director for Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., who disavowed some of the wording in his aide's e-mail after it was reported in National Journal.“It’s been a privilege serving under Senator Inhofe, who all of you know is a champion of protecting the national interest and guarding against EPA overreach,” writes the staffer, George David Banks, in an e-mail to friends and colleagues on Monday.Banks, who has been working for Inhofe since June 2011, writes in the more-than-500-word e-mail that “over the past several months, it’s become quite obvious to me that we are losing the war against politicized environmentalism.” He goes on to criticize the Environmental Protection Agency for becoming a “bully vis-à-vis our states and local governments.”Banks, who lobbied for Constellation Energy (now merged with Exelon) and the Nuclear Energy Institute after working at the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President George W. Bush, said in the e-mail that he has not determined his next steps yet.Katie Brown, press secretary for Inhofe, said in an e-mailed statement to National Journal: “We wish Dave the very best as he moves forward and thank him for his work on the committee over the past year.”Banks’s tenure with Inhofe began and ended with controversy. Banks ruffled some feathers—including Inhofe's—<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/member/energy/a-lovers-quarrel-between-gop-and-big-oil-20120511" data-rapid_p="4" style="text-decoration: none;">when he sent an e-mail</a> in April to two dozen lobbyists criticizing them for working too closely with the White House on a strategy for regulating natural gas production and for describing them as “partners” with the GOP. Inhofe <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/member/daily/inhofe-backs-off-staffer-s-memo-to-oil-lobbyists-20120515?mrefid=site_search" data-rapid_p="5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;">distanced himself</a> from the e-mail shortly after National Journalreported on it in May.“I was unaware of the memo that my staff sent out,” Inhofe told National Journal. “I wouldn’t have used those words.” As for Banks's use of the word “partners” to describe the relationship between oil and gas lobbyists and Senate Republicans, Inhofe added: “All that does is give people a target to shoot at, and I don’t need any more targets right now.”The decision last year by Inhofe—Washington’s most outspoken skeptic of global warming—to hire Banks raised eyebrows because of Banks’s work on climate-change issues while in the George W. Bush administration.In fact, in 2009 Banks won a Climate Protection Award from EPA for his work on climate diplomacy, specifically for his work strengthening the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty adopted in 1987 to protect the Earth’s ozone layer.John Coequyt, who directs the Sierra Club’s climate-change program and has praised Banks’s work on climate diplomacy in the past, said at the time of Banks’s hire last year: “We clearly maintain an open mind with Dave because we know him, but it certainly changes your view, with him going to work for Inhofe. It’s unlikely we’ll be able to work with him in this new position,” according to a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inhofe-staff-hire-triggers-climate-debate/2011/06/09/AG81ChNH_story.html" data-rapid_p="6" style="text-decoration: none;">Washington Post</a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inhofe-staff-hire-triggers-climate-debate/2011/06/09/AG81ChNH_story.html" data-rapid_p="7" style="text-decoration: none;">article</a> on June 9, 2011.
</div><div></div><div>wapo eilperin</div><div><div id="mod-article-header" class="mod-washingtonpostarticleheader mod-articleheader" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25px;">Inhofe staff hire triggers climate debate</h1></div><div id="mod-article-byline" class="mod-washingtonpostarticlebyline mod-articlebyline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 10px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Juliet Eilperin,June 09, 2011</div><div id="mod-a-body-first-para" class="mod-washingtonpostarticletext mod-tribunearticletextimpl mod-articletext" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px;">The decision by <a data-xslt="http" href="http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/02/inhofe.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px;">Sen. James M. Inhofe</a> (Okla.), the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, to acquire a new deputy chief of staff has touched off a hot inside-the-Beltway debate: Did Capitol Hill’s most prominent climate skeptic hire a moderate?Next month, lobbyist George “Dave” Banks, who served as a senior adviser on international affairs at the <a data-xslt="http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503989.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px;">White House Council on Environmental Quality</a> from 2006 to 2009, will become the panel’s minority deputy chief of staff, overseeing environmental issues. But the fact that he has established a good working relationship with some Democrats and environmentalists on global climate issues has prompted speculation that Inhofe may be shifting his stance.Banks won the Climate Protection Award from the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 for his work on strengthening ozone layer protections under the Montreal Protocol. Politico noted that at the time of the award, the <a data-xslt="http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905988.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px;">Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development</a> issued a release saying Banks was “the only Bush political appointee to have ever received such an award.”</div></div><div>
</div><div>But the truth might be a little more complicated. There’s no doubt that Banks’s predecessor on the panel, Mike Catanzaro, was a vocal conservative: He just took a post as an energy adviser to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). But Banks — who has most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Nuclear Energy Institute, Constellation Energy and First Energy — has shown no indication that he would back mandatory limits on greenhouse gases.Inhofe is clear about what he expects from Banks, issuing a statement Thursday saying: “Dave was constrained in his previous positions because of his professional obligations to the Bush administration during their moments of weakness. Yet Dave has personally opposed any type of congressional or regulatory cap-and-trade. He is now unleashed to join me in stopping the Obama administration from imposing all of their anti-business regulations.”And Banks’s statement is even more telling: “I am honored to join Senator Inhofe’s staff. He has been a champion in defending the American economy against EPA overreach and environmental activism and I will now be freed to join the fight to end the insanity perpetrated by the Obama administration.”John Coequyt, who directs the Sierra Club’s international climate program, has praised Banks in the past but provided a different take in an interview Thursday: “We clearly maintain an open mind with Dave because we know him, but it certainly changes your view, with him going to work for Inhofe. It’s unlikely we’ll be able to work with him in this new position.”=LIGeorge David BanksSpecial Assistant to the President, International Energy and EnvironmentWashington D.C. Metro AreaPublic PolicyCurrent Executive Office of the PresidentPrevious American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), Battle Group, LLC, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Education George Mason University School of LawWebsites Company Website500+connectionsView George David Banks’ full profile. It's free!Your colleagues, classmates, and 500 million other professionals are on LinkedIn.View George David’s Full ProfileSummarySpecial Assistant to the President for International Energy and Environment. Previously, free market policy advocate, focusing on energy and environment issues, with over 15 years of U.S. government experience, including Senate, House, intelligence community, diplomatic service, and White House.
Specialties: Environmental Regulation, Climate Change, and Energy Security Policy; Foreign Policy; Trade Policy and Sanctions; Political Operations and AdvocacyExperienceExecutive Office of the PresidentSpecial Assistant To The President, International Energy & EnvironmentExecutive Office of the PresidentFebruary 2017 – Present (10 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaExecutive Vice PresidentAmerican Council for Capital Formation (ACCF)January 2015 – February 2017 (2 years 2 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaManaging DirectorBattle Group, LLCSeptember 2012 – December 2014 (2 years 4 months)Strategic consultancy that works to bridge and integrate state and local advocacy efforts with free market lobbying campaigns at the national level, focusing on energy and environment issues.Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Senior Fellow, Nuclear Energy ProgramCenter for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)April 2013 – November 2014 (1 year 8 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaDomestic civil nuclear energy policy.United States SenateRepublican Deputy Staff Director, Environment & Public Works (EPW) CommitteeUnited States SenateJuly 2011 – September 2012 (1 year 3 months)Helped coordinate GOP strategy in promoting cooperative environmental federalism and regulatory transparency with the goal of balancing economic growth, energy security, and environmental quality.
Major Issues: Mandatory and descretionary regulation and guidance documents under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other environmental policy and law; hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas; Endangered Species Act; oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, including licensing of new nuclear reactors.Boyden Gray & AssociatesPartnerBoyden Gray & AssociatesFebruary 2009 – July 2011 (2 years 6 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaStrategic consultancy and law firm founded with C. Boyden Gray, focusing on energy and environment issues with an emphasis on national security. Represented utilities and trade associations; drafted white paper on exploring the link between the U.S. civil nuclear program and America's ability to influence the non-proliferation regime.
Registered lobbyist for Constellation, FirstEnergy, and Nuclear Energy Institute.Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD)Senior Law FellowInstitute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD)February 2009 – August 2010 (1 year 7 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaReported to Durwood Zaelke; helped formulate political strategies for advancing fast action climate mitigation strategies, including work on black carbon and further strengthening the Montreal Protocol.
Main Project: Focused on moving HFCs out of the Kyoto basket to be regulated by the Montreal Protocol.Executive Office of the PresidentSenior Advisor, International Afairs & Climate Change, Council on Environmental QualityExecutive Office of the PresidentAugust 2006 – January 2009 (2 years 6 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaServed as Senior Adviser to the Chair, Jim Connaughton; helped manage team of roughly ten staff, covering international environment and energy issues.
Main Projects: Worked as one of the chief architects of the Major Economies Meeting (MEM), which became the Major Economies Forum (MEF) under the Obama Administration; led Bush Administration effort to accelerate the phase-out of HCFCs under the Montreal Protocol; developed non-CO2 agenda (black carbon, methane, and HFCs) with stakeholders, which was adopted by the Obama Adminstration as a key component of U.S. international climate policy.
Honors: Nominated by President Bush for Assistant Administrator of EPA International Activities; received Climate Protection Award (for Diplomacy) from EPA for work performed at the Council.U.S. Department of StateForeign Service Officer - Deputy Head of EST Unit, Economics SectionU.S. Department of StateJanuary 2004 – August 2006 (2 years 8 months)Served as main point of contact for climate change issues at the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) under Ambassador C. Boyden Gray.
Main Projects: Developed a series of climate and energy seminars that laid the foundation of a U.S.-EU work program, creating joint working groups on biofuels, energy efficiency, and CCS; these programs were later reflected formally in the U.S.-EU Summit of 2007.
Honors: Earned Superior Honor and Superior Performance Awards for advancing U.S. environmental diplomacy goals.
Other: Studied intensive French for 8 months in preparation for assignment.Economic & Legal AnalystCentral Intelligence AgencyAugust 1995 – December 2003 (8 years 5 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaServed as economic and legal analyst following European Union economic issues; detailed to the State Department as an economic officer during two summers to Brussels and Istanbul.
Honors: Received DI Intelligence Commendation Medal and numerous Exceptional Performance Awards.U.S. House of RepresentativesLegislative Fellow for Howard BermanU.S. House of RepresentativesJanuary 2001 – August 2001 (8 months)Washington D.C. Metro AreaParticipated in Brookings Fellow Program while employed by CIA; worked on special projects for Congressman Berman; followed issues on the international relations and judiciary committees.PublicationsRestoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear EnergyCenter for Strategic & International StudiesJune 2013Authors:George David BanksRecapturing U.S. Leadership in Uranium EnrichmentCenter for Strategic & International StudiesNovember 2013Authors:George David BanksA Rational Approach to U.S. Civil Nuclear PowerR Street InstituteMay 2014Authors:George David BanksMarket Flaws and Distortions in Competitive Electricity Markets: Preserving Grid Reliability and Protecting U.S. Climate GoalsAmerican Consumer InstituteJune 2014Authors:George David BanksThe Role of U.S. Research and Development Policy In Nuclear PowerR Street InstituteFebruary 2015Authors:George David BanksU.S. Coal Plant Financing Policy Threatens U.S. Interests in Developing WorldAmerican Council for Capital FormationFebruary 2015Authors:George David BanksUnderstanding the US-China Announcement on Climate Change: Separating Myth from RealityAmerican Council for Capital FormationMarch 2015Authors:George David BanksU.S. Resource Nationalism: The Impact of Energy Trade Restrictions on National SecurityAmerican Council for Capital FormationJuly 2015Authors:George David BanksManaging Pacific Rim Security Risks With U.S. EnergyAmerican Council for Capital FormationNovember 2015Authors:George David BanksSuccess of U.S. Climate Pledge Depends on Future GHG Regulation of U.S. Industry, Other SectorsAmerican Council for Capital FormationNovember 2015Authors:George David BanksClean Power Subsidies for Wind Reinforces Arguments Against Renewing the PTCAmerican Council for Capital FormationNovember 2015Authors:George David BanksQuality infrastructure requires sound planningNikkei Asian ReviewApril 2016Asian governments provide a significant funding base, public-sector capital will not be sufficient to fill Asia's infrastructure gap. Thoughtful planning must be done around public private partnerships, anti-corruption, capacity building, etc.Authors:George David BanksPursuing a More Comprehensive Approach toward Southeast Asia is Critical to Preserving U.S. InfluenceApril 2016Authors:George David Banks, Tony NashLanguagesFrenchLimited working proficiencySkillsEnergy PolicyEnvironmental PolicyNational SecurityClimate Change PolicyCongressForeign PolicyStrategic PlanningPolitical ConsultingClimate ChangePoliticsPolicyLegislative RelationsPublic PolicyDiplomacyEuropean UnionSee 17+How's this translation?Great•Has errorsEducationGeorge Mason University School of LawGeorge Mason University School of LawJD, European Union Law, Class Rank: 19/180 Cum Laude1999 – 2003Activities and Societies: Co-edited Lexus-Nexus textbook, "The Law and Economics of the European Union."The George Washington UniversityThe George Washington UniversityNational Security Policy Studies1993 – 1995Studied "Nuclear Warfare" and "Foreign Economic Policy".University of Missouri-Saint LouisUniversity of Missouri-Saint LouisMA, Economics1991 – 1994Studied "Econometrics" and "International Trade and Finance".University of Missouri-Saint LouisUniversity of Missouri-Saint LouisBA, BA, BA, History, Economics, Political Science, Magna Cum Laude1986 – 1991Studied "European Modern History" and "International Relations". Languages included Russian.Volunteer Experience & CausesCauses George David cares about:EnvironmentHealthPoliticsPoverty AlleviationScience and TechnologyGroupsNetworking for Nuclear Engineers & Nuclear ProfessionalsNetworking for Nuclear Engineers & Nuclear ProfessionalsLinked:Energy (Energy industry expertise)Linked:Energy (Energy industry expertise)Americans for ProsperityAmericans for ProsperityJournal of Law, Economics & PolicyJournal of Law, Economics & PolicySmall Modular ReactorsSmall Modular ReactorsThe Energy CollectiveThe Energy Collective
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