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our Tweet Ended Kathleen Sgamma’s Bid to Lead Trump Public Lands Agency

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Memo Revealed Sgamma Was 'Disgusted' by Trump's Role in Inciting Jan. 6 Violence

Sgamma, President, Western Energy Alliance, speaks during a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing on America's Energy and Mineral potential, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

On Tuesday morning, I posted on social media a private memo from Kathleen Sgamma that revealed criticism of Donald Trump from within his own circle. Trump is well known to demand absolute loyalty from his nominees. By Thursday afternoon, just hours before her confirmation hearing, Kathleen Sgamma withdrew her nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management. It has been widely reported that it was the memo that forced her out.

In February Donald Trump nominated Sgamma to oversee the BLM. Few were surprised by his choice. Sgamma has been a longtime advocate for the oil and gas industry and president of the Western Energy Alliance, a prominent trade group representing the industry.

Trump's position on climate change has been well reported since before his first term. Since his 2020 victory, he has openly pushed for expanded drilling, vowed to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, and said(once again), "We will drill, baby, drill," during his inauguration address.

During that speech, Trump also stated that the U.S. has the “largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth—and we are going to use it.”

Sgamma seemed like a natural fit, albeit one that was horrifying for many environmental groups. Taylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity called her nomination an "unmitigated disaster," citing her "breathtaking disdain" for protecting public lands.

But behind the scenes, we uncovered a revealing internal memo buried among internal Western Energy Alliance documents from 2021, written by Sgamma to the group's member companies. In it, she strongly criticized Trump’s actions around January 6th.

Crucially, the Sgamma memo was sent to WEA members on January 7th, amid intense political backlash following the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and when Trump's leadership faced widespread condemnation and calls for impeachment. Some dissent (or honesty) was possible in that brief window.

In the memo, Sgamma expressed being “disgusted” by the violence on January 6th, placing blame squarely on Trump’s "role in spreading misinformation that incited it.” She went further, offering supportive words to incoming President Joe Biden, hoping he could restore “normalcy and moderation” to a nation shaken by unrest—even as she openly acknowledged their obvious policy differences.

Here is what Sgamma wrote in 2021:

I don’t usually bother you with reactions to major events shaping the country and world, because there is plenty of coverage on those. We take positions on issues in our portfolio, and I usually do not like to stray into larger issues that are outside the lanes directed by our committees and boards. We stick to our issues in social media, and I personally limit engagement on most other issues because of my professional position and general intolerance for a medium that quickly devolves into people yelling past each other.

However, the events yesterday at the Capitol were so shocking that our policy engagement with and PAC support for the Trump Administration compels me to speak up. I am disgusted by the violence witnessed yesterday and President Trump’s role in spreading misinformation that incited it. I’m disgusted he discredited all the good work he did reorienting the judiciary back toward respect for the rule of law and constitution by dishonoring the vote of the People and the rulings of those very same judges on his numerous challenges. I’m disheartened he besmirched his smart, well-intentioned people in the agencies who did such good work on important policies that advance the crucial mission of making life-sustaining, affordable energy accessible to all Americans, no matter their race, gender, and political orientation.

Senator Mike Lee, Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources announced Ms. Sgamma's withdrawal as the committee gathered on Thursday. “We accept her withdrawal and look forward to putting forth another nominee,” said a White House spokesperson.

Former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, now in private practice at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, tweeted after the withdrawal: "Individuals who know their views don’t align with the president, yet seek political appointments hoping such divergence won't be noticed, cause needless harm. Sad. Self-inflicted."

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TESTIMONY

Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources The Department of the Interior’s Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program

Kathleen Sgamma President, Western Energy Alliance April 27, 2021 Chairman Manchin and Ranking Member Barrasso, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about my favorite energy subject, the federal onshore oil and gas program.

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/092189F1-C93A-4480-96BD-B319C1CDC66C CITES

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/university-of-wyoming-professor-draws-scrutiny-for-energy-industry-funded-analyses/article_ec03f5e9-feed-5869-9832-ad02723b0d30.html

Since 2009, Dr. Considine has produced paid research for, at least, theAmerican Petroleum Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Marcellus Shale Coalition, and the Interstate Policy Alliance.

Has Dr. Considine not submitted any financial interest disclosures to the University? When these disclosures are submitted, how long does the University retain them?

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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/oil-gas-booster-sgamma-makes-foes-wish-she-were-on-our-side

feb. 3, 2020,

advocate for ‘sanity in the NEPA process’ pleased by recent moves

Often provides testimony on issues affecting environment, energy sector

To Kathleen Sgamma, the Trump administration’s recent unveiling of a proposal to speed up environmental permitting for infrastructure projects marked a huge victory in a battle she has waged for more than a decade.

“The Trump administration really went big here,” said Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, a Denver-based oil and gas trade association. “I think it had something to do with the fact the president was a real estate developer. He knows full well how red tape can tie up projects.”

The National Environmental Policy Act—enacted to ensure that details on the environmental impacts of federal actions are publicly available before the actions begin—is often described as thecornerstone of U.S. environmental laws. The White House Council on Environmental Quality on Jan. 9 proposed to change NEPA regulations so a project’s cumulative environmental effects would no longer have to be considered. That would be one of the most significant changes to the law’s implementation in more than four decades.

The effects of NEPA have become clear even among “people who don’t know the acronym exists,” said Sgamma, who describes herself as advocating for “sanity in the NEPA process” from the moment she joined the energy advocacy group in March 2006. The alliance has more than 300 member companies in 13 states, including Occidental Petroleum Corp., EOG Resources Inc., and Halliburton Energy Services Inc.

Sgamma’s advocacy for overhauling NEPA rules, and for relentlessly promoting fossil-fuel development, has won her plenty of attention.

Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program director at WildEarth Guardians, said he sees Sgamma as his “opposite number” at the Alliance. The two frequently cross paths while testifying before the Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Department, and other state and federal agencies.

“She’s zealous,” Nichols said. “She advocates for her interests, for an industry which is all about making oil and gas money and denying climate change. She’s aggressive and takes no prisoners. I wish she were on our side.”

‘Protect Corporate Interests’

Jon Haubert, founder of H.B. Legacy Media Co., a public relations firm in Parker, Colo. that works with the energy industry, agreed Sgamma is an effective advocate for oil and gas.

“But it’s not about carrying a big microphone with Sgamma,” Haubert said. “She is a student of these issues and has done all the homework there is on the full array of federal issues affecting the West.”

Anne Lee Foster, spokeswoman for Colorado Rising, an anti-fracking group in Boulder County, sees it differently. She said groups like the Alliance “pull the wool over the eyes of the public to protect corporate interests.”

“It’s been proven that groups like these spend millions of dollars of corporate private money spreading disinformation to protect their profits, to undermine science, and to deny the climate crisis, which they’ve know about for decades,” she said.

The Alliance sponsors Western Wire, a website that describes itself as “the go-to source for news, commentary and analysis on pro-growth, pro-development policies across the West.” Foster calls it a disseminator of pro-industry propaganda.

Groups likeColorado Rising “don’t like factual information,” Sgamma said in response. “I would challenge them on what disinformation they say we’re spreading.”

Active on Multiple Issues

Sgamma often testifies before various agencies and lawmaking bodies on energy and environmental issues, including the Endangered Species Act and hydraulic fracturing. She also championed the Interior Department’s decision to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo.

She served as an alternate member of Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee,which sought to help the department set royalty payments for oil, natural gas, and coal mined from public lands before its charter lapsed in 2019. She said one of the alliance’s goals has been to defend federal agency leasing of public land for energy development.

“Environmental groups have challenged us on just about every single federal lease since 2014,” she said.

She refuted accusations that oil and gas companies don’t care about climate change. The industry has helped enhance the availability of cheap natural gas, accelerating the closing or conversion of coal-fired power plants and thus reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, she said.

But NEPA has been among her chief interests. Many Democrats and environmental groups say the White House’s proposed changes amount to a significant watering-down of the law, but Sgamma disagrees.

She said decades of court cases and abuse by groups that she said seek to use NEPA just to stop development have translated to a simple law becoming little more than a way to bog down or stop projects. Trump is just trying to put reasonable parameters—such as time and page limits—around the act, she said.

“Environmental groups are very successful at using NEPA documents to convince judges that analyses could have been done better,[army corps pipelines?] ” she said. “Everything can always be better. The question is, is it sufficient to analyze the impacts and identify environmentally sensitive alternatives?”

‘Right Direction’

The Trump administration has been “headed in the right direction on several policy issues” affecting the energy sector, Sgamma said.

President George W. Bush, the last Republican to occupy the Oval Office before Trump, was “brow-beaten about being in the tank for oil and gas,” she said. Bush appointees learned to self-censor, she said, and “they understood they weren’t going to be able to make bold policy moves. So we didn’t get much done during the Bush administration.”

Sgamma is also treasurer of the Alliance’s political action committee, which gave90% of its federal candidate contributions to Republicans in the 2018 election cycle,and 97% in the 2016 cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Originally from Buffalo, N.Y., Sgamma said her three years as an Army intelligence officertaught her about leadership at an early stage in her career.

“My specific training came from leading two platoons,” she said. “I came out of the Army as a contractor doing business process reengineering for government projects. From that, I learned about the inefficiencies and bureaucracy of government.”

Prior to joining the Alliance, Sgamma spent 11 years in the information technology sector, where she managed the European consulting practice for a software vendor.

In addition to NEPA, the Alliance’s agenda in the coming months includes dealing with endangered species and other high-priority rules, Sgamma said.

She said the group will be focused on helping get the rulemakings complete and make as many policies “as permanent as possible” before the election— given the chance of a Democrat taking office in 2021.

To contact the reporter on this story: Tripp Baltz in Denver at abaltz@bloomberglaw.com

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory Henderson at ghenderson@bloombergenvironment.com; Chuck McCutcheon at cmccutcheon@bloombergenvironment.com; Anna Yukhananov at ayukhananov@bloombergenvironment.com

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https://westernvaluesproject.org/industry-communications-with-interior-and-bureau-of-land-management-on-sage-grouse-overhaul/

https://westernvaluesproject.org/western-values-project-opens-investigation-in-response-to-leaked-document-revealing-industry-influence-of-interiors-sage-grouse-review/

August 21, 2017 by Jayson O'Neill

Western Values Project opens investigation in response to leaked document revealing industry influence of Interior’s sage-grouse review

FOIA filed in preparation for litigation after documents show oil and gas lobbyists shaped recommendations from Secretary Zinke

The Western Values Project (WVP) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking correspondence between industry representatives and staff at the Department of the Interior who worked on Secretary Zinke’s sage-grouse review. The request comes after WVP obtained a leaked document showing that the Western Energy Alliance (WEA), an oil and gas industry trade group, was behind most of the recommendations that made it into the Secretary’s report.

Read the leaked document here.

The memo from WEA is nothing short of an industry wish list, with 15 recommendations for the sage-grouse review team. Analysis shows that 13 of those requests were granted by Secretary Zinke’s handpicked sage-grouse review team. A side-by-side comparison can be found here.

“Despite pleas from Western governors, stakeholders, farmers, ranchers, scientists and conservationists, it appears Secretary Zinke was only listening to lobbyists from the oil and gas industry during his sage-grouse review. When you compare Secretary Zinke’s recommendations to the oil and gas industry’s wish list, it becomes clear that he is doing the bidding of these Washington, D.C. special interests,” said Jayson O’Neill, Deputy Director of the Western Values Project. “This is a dangerous trend that is becoming a pattern for Secretary Zinke – offer lip-service to the West while granting private industry unfettered control of our public lands.”

Western governors from both political parties reached out to Secretary Zinke urging him to preserve the plan they spent years developing, including a request that the department not move forward with population targets and captive breeding. Those requests were ignored.

If the Department of the Interior fails to fulfill the FOIA request within a timely manner, WVP will file suit.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/todd-wynn-interior-ethics_us_5b23f523e4b0f9178a9cd1fc

...Ryan Zinke's information from outside organizations comes under the control of a political appointee whose ties to former employers have raised ethics questions.

A top political appointee at the Interior Department repeatedly scheduled meetings with his former employers in an apparent violation of federal ethics rules,HuffPost has learned.

Todd Wynn, director of the agency’s powerful Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, worked as the task force director at the American Legislative Exchange Council from 2011 to 2013, overseeing the energy, environment and agriculture division, and organizing three national conferences a year, a copy of his :{résumé:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: shows. He then joined the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute, :{paying:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: to :{participate:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: in the ALEC task force he previously led.

On Oct. 27, he planned a 30-minute video call with :{Jennifer Butler:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}:, a senior policy adviser at the ALEC-linked State Policy Network, according to calendars released under a Freedom of Information Act request. On Dec. 19, he scheduled another such call with :{Grant Kidwell:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}:, the ALEC director in charge of his former task force. A spokeswoman for ALEC denied that the meeting occurred.

Two days later, Wynn slotted 30 minutes for a call with :{Rich Lindsey:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}:, who heads the energy and environment committee at the :{oil-funded:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: Council of State Governments ― where, according to his :{CV:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: and :{financial disclosures:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}:, Wynn :{also served:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: as a committee member from June 2015 until he joined the Interior Department.

It’s unclear what might have been discussed during the calls, and indeed, HuffPost could not confirm whether they definitely took place as scheduled ― but the calendars of agency officials are generally reliable. The Interior Department and the three political operatives did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment on Friday.

Wynn’s meetings with ALEC and its affiliate did not violate the ethics pledge because his formal employment at the organization ended more than two years before he joined the agency, Interior Department spokeswoman Faith Vander Voort argued Monday via email. She said Wynn was not employed by the Council of State Governments.

Vander Voort did not respond to questions about Wynn’s continued work with ALEC through the Edison Electric Institute, his role at the Council of State Governments, or provide examples of other agency appointees with similar arrangements.

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CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTETodd Wynn appears in a video posted on YouTube by the conservative Cascade Policy Institute, one of his former employers.

But on Oct. 16, Wynn :{signed:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: President Donald Trump’s :{ethics pledge:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: prohibiting political appointees in the executive branch from participating “in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to [one’s] former employer or former clients.” Barred interactions include “any meeting or other communication relating to the performance of one’s official duties with a former employer or former client, unless the communication applies to a particular matter of general applicability and participation in the meeting or other event is open to all interested parties.”

The scheduled calls :{also appear to violate:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: the “government-wide regulatory standards of conduct” that “bar [Wynn] from meeting personally with any former client or employer he served in the year prior to the meeting,” Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics, said in an email.

Apparentconflicts of interestare not new at the Interior Department. In March, :{HuffPost reported:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: that Lori Mashburn, the agency’s White House liaison, attended two private events hosted by her former employer, the conservative Heritage Foundation. Her attendance violated the same ethics pledge Wynn signed. In May, newly released calendars showed David Bernhardt, the Interior Department’s deputy secretary, met with a trio of lobbyists for MGM Resorts International, the casino-resort giant that his longtime former employer also represents.

Wynn has been a rising star in the influential network of fossil fuel-funded think tanks that push policies and produce pseudoscientific research to muddle the debate on climate change. He maintained those ties since taking over in a :{critical position:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: that controls the flow of information at the Interior Department, serving as a gatekeeper betweenSecretary Ryan Zinke and outside organizations.

In November, Wynn attended an energy conference hosted by the Heartland Institute,a former tobacco industry defender turned aggressive climate change denial outfit. Later that month he met with Reaching America, a group that :{advocates:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: for increasing fossil fuel extraction as a means of reducing racial inequality. Throughout that month, he held four separate meetings with the Property and Environment Research Center, a Montana-based “free market” group :{associated:(style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:inherit"):}: with the State Policy Network.

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Interior Department advisory group relied on a top energy industry lobbyist to help draft a list of potential regulatory rollbacks, documents obtained by HuffPost show.

At least one suggestion ― reducing the role that local environmental concerns play in leasing federal lands for oil and gas development ― quickly became a reality.

The Onshore Work Group, charged with recommending how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke ought to regulate federal lands available for fossil fuel development, already has deep ties to the energy industry. Its chair is Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the oil and gas industry group Western Energy Alliance and a vocal proponent of tearing down many Obama-era environmental protections.

But metadata from the working group’s first draft of recommendations further link the Interior Department with the industry it is tasked with regulating. According to the metadata, Tripp Parks, the Western Energy Alliance’s head of government affairs, was the initial author of the document.

The working group belongs to a growing cadre of industry-friendly advisory bodies Zinke has set up to guide his agenda. In November, he assembled a wildlife conservation advisory group dominated by people with links to trophy hunting. Most members of a public lands advisory group have connections to the outdoor recreation industry.

“It’s a huge concern,” said John DeCicco, a University of Michigan research professor who has worked for the environmental advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund. Under previous administrations, DeCicco said, committees like these were usually composed of scientific experts. “What it really represents is that certain powerful interests, moneyed interests, they have the ear of policymakers who are running roughshod over due process and running roughshod over important checks and balances that are supposed to be there.”

The working group was set up under the umbrella of the Royalty Policy Committee, a group tasked with recommending the royalty rates the federal government should charge for drilling. Many of the committee’s members hail from the oil and gas sector or have significant ties to it. Whereas the same committee had a narrow, technical focus under previous administrations, under Zinke, it has been making sweeping proposals to roll back regulations on federal lands. The committee members who set up the working group have proposed measures like charging bargain-basement royalties for deepwater drilling operations and have described their mandate as “looking at steps to be taken to make DOI a better business partner to its investors.”

Some of those steps appear to have been come directly from the Western Energy Alliance. A document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that Parks created the draft recommendations one day before Sgamma circulated them to committee members overseeing the working group.

“It’s a very clear instance of regulatory capture,” said Pat Gallagher, the Sierra Club’s legal director. Of the recommendations, he said, “There is no other object than to get drill bits in the ground as quickly as possible.”

At best, Gallagher said, industry representatives are creating an echo chamber inside the Interior Department. Several of Parks’ recommendations mirror a report the department released in October on “energy burdens.” Sgamma told HuffPost that Parks’ name appears in the document’s metadata because she asked him to pull out relevant sections of the report. This was “the full extent of my staff’s involvement,” she wrote in an email. What it really represents is that certain powerful interests, moneyed interests, they have the ear of policy makers who are running roughshod over due process.

John DeCicco, University of Michigan research professor

The recommendations included items that had been on Western Energy Alliance’s wish list for years, like a proposal to abandon the practice of re-evaluating long-term leases instead of automatically renewing them, which allowed federal regulators to plan around major changes to the landscape, such as new suburban developments.

Sgamma circulated the draft ― which she described as focusing on “increasing the competitiveness of federal lands” ― on Jan. 9, inviting her fellow group members to make changes. Some of Parks’ initial recommendations were cut from later drafts, but the agency has already taken action on one recommendation that survived: The Interior Department quietly ceased the Obama-era practice of planning local drilling sites according to local environmental concernson Jan. 31. The industry had long argued that the practice created a redundant roadblock to new drilling projects.

“We’re very pleased,” Sgamma said at the time.

A handful of the most influential oil and gas developers in the country fund the Western Energy Alliance. Although it does not currently publicize the names of its members, the alliance has included Devon Energy, Halliburton, Anadarko Petroleum and Pioneer Natural Resources. Its political action committee donated $5,000 to Zinke’s campaigns while he served as Montana’s lone congressman.

The Western Energy Alliance fiercely opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the oil and gas industry,sometimes to the point of adopting a siege mentality. It invited Rick Berman, known for his ruthless, corporate-backed PR campaigns against environmentalists, to address its members in 2014. At the event, Berman framed the struggle against environmental groups as “an endless war.”

The draft recommendations are not the only example of the Western Energy Alliance having an outsized voice in the Trump administration. Parks, who is not registered as a lobbyist, previously presented an Interior advisory group with 15 recommendations for scrapping protections for the greater sage-grouse, which the industry felt impeded new energy projects; the advisory group adopted 13 of them.

The Interior Department did not respond to HuffPost’s questions about Parks’ role in drafting the recommendations. Sgamma has defended her role in making policy recommendations to the Interior Department by noting she has subject matter expertise. “I’m not an alternate member of the Royalty Policy Committee because of my sparkling personality,” she told HuffPost.

Sgamma added that the Interior Department had considered scrapping several of the Western Energy Alliance’s least favorite regulations even before the formation of her working group.

But the alliance’s relationship with the Trump administration also stretches back many months.

Entries in Zinke’s calendar show he met with representatives of the alliance in April 2017. A brief prepared for the secretary reminded him of a Trump administration order that for every new regulation created, agencies must place two old regulations on the chopping block.

The brief recommended that Zinke ask the alliance lobbyists which regulations he should scrap.But it wasn’t a matter of urgency: The agency has already rolled back more than two regulations for every new rule, the brief made clear, with the result that it had “built [up] a credit.”

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