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<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 50px 0px -14px; line-height: 34px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></h2><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hmmn</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://thetransparencyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SpecialInterestBigMoney_Data.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://thetransparencyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SpecialInterestBigMoney_Data.pdf</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dems?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top contributing businesses: Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.; Blue Shield Of California; At&T Services Inc. And Its Affiliates; Amazon.Com Services Llc (Jeffrey Bezos); Amr Holdco, Inc.;<b>&nbsp;Edison International</b>&nbsp;& Affiliated Entities Via Southern California Edison Company;&nbsp;<b>Cadiz, Inc.</b>;&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charter Communications&nbsp;</span>Inc.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Cadiz Inc.: B</b>ernhardt did legal work for Cadiz Inc., a Los Angeles-based publicly traded water company, which is proposing a 43-mile water project that would pump water from an aquifer under the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park to Southern California cities</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The company’s CEO and president is Scott Slater, a former colleague of Bernstein’s at Brownstein Hyatt who remains at the firm while also working at Cadiz. According to a 2013 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Brownstein Hyatt has a financial stake in the Cadiz project. The firm was awarded up to 400,000 shares of Cadiz common stock, based on the achievement of several development milestones. Slater and fellow <b>Brownstein Hyatt </b>shareholder Chris Frahm also have long represented the San Diego County Water authority, a public agency that has paid Brownstein Hyatt $25 million over two decades. Before President Trump’s inauguration, the incoming administration put the Cadiz project on a $138 billion list of emergency and national security projects. Slater welcomed the news, issuing a statement that: “We are appreciative of the inclusion on any list of priority infrastructure projects. We are ready to bring reliable water to Southern California and put people to work.”</span></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At Bernhardt’s first confirmation hearing in May 2017, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) called on Bernhardt to permanently recuse himself from matters related to his former corporate clients and highlighted the Cadiz project as particularly egregious. After Trump’s inauguration, Slater said prospects for the water project had improved under Trump and Republican control of Congress. “The dynamics have changed,” Slater told McClatchy.</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In April 2017, the Interior Department ruled that the Cadiz project wouldn’t need a strict environmental review because it fell under the path of a railroad,</b> revoking&nbsp; prior Obama administration legal guidance and eliminating a major hurdle for the water project.&nbsp;<b> An Interior Department spokeswoman said at the time that Deputy Secretary Bernhardt has “absolutely no role in anything related to Cadiz.”</b>&nbsp;</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), an opponent of the project, called the decision “clearly just an effort to circumvent an environmental review that any project of this magnitude on federal land would normally undergo.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Slater told the Guardian that “there is nobody saying anymore in the federal government that we’re not within the scope of the right-of-way.”<b> However, the Trump’s administration’s ruling was overruled in 2019 by a federal judge, who held that the railroad pathway could be used only for railroad purposes</b>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The investment firm Apollo Global Management is a major investor in the Cadiz project. Apollo has also&nbsp; provided a $184 million loan to Kushner Companies, the family real estate firm of President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> An Apollo representative told the Los Angeles Times that there is “no connection whatsoever between Apollo’s business with the Kushner Cos. and any government action regarding the Cadiz Valley project.”</span></font></div></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 50px 0px -14px; line-height: 34px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2015&nbsp;&nbsp;https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/17/back-in-beltway-richard-pombo/33672160007/</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Back in the Beltway: Richard Pombo returns to D.C., in more ways than one</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Former Rep. Richard Pombo smiles as Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks before the unveiling of Pombo's formal portrait in Washington, D.C. COURTESY OF RICHARD POMBO</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>For years, former U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo refused to be memorialized in a portrait, breaking ranks with many colleagues who have chaired the House Committee on Natural Resources.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The suit, the stuffy setting — “It just wasn’t me,” said the 54-year-old conservative rancher from Tracy, who thought he was done with Washington, D.C. after seven terms in Congress.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pombo eventually changed his mind, about the portrait and about Washington.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Before family and friends, his portrait was unveiled in late July, depicting a casually dressed Pombo with cowboy hat in hand and an image of Lake Shasta in the background — a nod to his work on California water issues.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And earlier this year, Pombo returned to Washington as a partner in a consulting firm, lobbying Congress on many of the same topics that dominated his own tenure there.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I actually kind of surprised myself” by going back, he said last week. “I’d done my time and I was good with it. But I started to miss the policy stuff. What was happening in California with the drought kind of pushed me back into it. This was a way I could hopefully have some influence.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Pombo has remained largely behind the scenes since he was ousted from office in 2006, a defeat that was a consequence both of anti-Republican sentiment at the time and scandals which he says were whipped up by political foes.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Looking back, he says he is proud of his work.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I think time has shown that I was a lot more right than I was wrong about the things we were trying to do with water and reforming the endangered species act and energy,” he said, adding that some of his proposed policies, particularly to increase water storage, might have helped to alleviate the pain of this drought had they been approved.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“There’s a lot of things that should have been relatively easy to do that didn’t happen,” Pombo said. “And we’re paying for that now.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Even almost a decade since he left office, the mere mention of Pombo’s name evokes a negative response in the environmental community. He is best known, perhaps, for his<b>&nbsp;unsuccessful efforts to revise the Endangered Species Act — or to gut it, depending on who you ask.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Sierra Club’s Eric Parfrey battled with Pombo when he served on the Tracy City Council, before vaulting into Congress. And it was the Sierra Club that ultimately helped bring Pombo down many years later.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a way, Parfrey said, Pombo was ahead of his time.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“When you look back, a lot of the ideas he was espousing were very, very controversial and dangerous, and very disturbing,” Parfrey said. “Now the whole tenor, especially within the Republican Party, has gone so far to the right that his rhetoric would sound mainstream.</span>”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Pombo responds that environmental groups “needed a nemesis, needed a boogeyman to raise money off of.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“There are some people within the environmental community that really care,” Pombo said. “They are committed, their heart is in the right place. There are others that see this as a means to an end.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After leaving office Pombo worked for an Oregon-based consulting firm, focusing on private property rights. But mostly, he spent time on the ranch, enjoying the company of his wife, Annette, and watching their three children grow up.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>And they did. So it was only recently that Pombo ventured back within the Beltway, where he and former employees and colleagues formed a consulting firm called Gavel Resources.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to public documents, the company represents firms like</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Cadiz Inc., a Southern California-based water </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and energy developer, and Xcel Energy</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, an electricity and natural gas provider that claims annual revenue of more than $11 billion per year.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Closest to home, Pombo represents the N<b>orthern California Power Association on drought issues and federal regulations.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Much of Pombo’s time is spent meeting with lawmakers — the kind of meetings he has experienced many times. It’s just that now he’s on the other side of the fence.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“As a former member, I still have some influence,” Pombo said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Linden rancher Kenny Watkins traveled to Washington for the unveiling of Pombo's portrait. “It was just something, to see the respect the rest of the congressmen have for him, and to recognize the influence this area had on national politics,” Watkins said. “That was a big coup when he took (the committee chairmanship) — he stepped over a lot of people with a lot of seniority.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And Pombo’s proud of his portrait — reluctant though he was to allow it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“For being a farm kid from Tracy,” he said, “I did OK.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Contact reporter Alex Breitler at (209) 546-8295 or abreitler@recordnet.com. Follow him at recordnet.com/breitlerblog and on Twitter @alexbreitler.</font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></p></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 50px 0px -14px; line-height: 34px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 50px 0px -14px; line-height: 34px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A "Useless and Environmentally Damaging Water Project"</font></font></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New to this list on March 5&nbsp;are claims that Interior withdrew legal rulings preventing a former client of Bernhardt's old lobbying firm from developing a water storage facility in the Mojave Desert.&nbsp;The client,<b>&nbsp;Cadiz Inc, paid&nbsp;Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP $2.75 million and granted it 200,000 shares of its stock while Bernhardt worked there.&nbsp;</b>Now with one of his former Brownstein colleagues serving as Cadiz CEO, Interior ruled in the firm's favor shortly after Bernhardt's confirmation as deputy secretary. The project appears to be almost entirely a boondoggle, with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2017/10/18/the-energy-202-interior-greenlights-desert-water-project-prompting-call-for-investigation/59e6731d30fb041a74e75de2/?utm_term=.cb3bf6bae4d0" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(255, 210, 4) 0px -3px 0px -1px inset; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s;">no public benefit but potentially massive environmental repurcussions</a>.&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why you should care:</strong>&nbsp;This appears to be a classic example of public funds being diverted to private profit, and at enormous cost to public resources (in this case, water).</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/04/03/firm-that-once-employed-trumps-pick-run-interior-is-making-millions-lobbying-it/?utm_term=.f4c5b41b5ff2">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/04/03/firm-that-once-employed-trumps-pick-run-interior-is-making-millions-lobbying-it/?utm_term=.f4c5b41b5ff2</a></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wapo</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><div data-elm-loc="0" class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; border-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="4OUJ33BIZMI6TDXPBV2PJPYCSU" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /></font><a name="4OUJ33BIZMI6TDXPBV2PJPYCSU" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span class="pb-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.25em; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A card with clients of Interior acting secretary David Bernhardt are seen listed on this small card, which he carries with him as he performs his job. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)</font></span></a></font></font></div><div class="author-sig-line-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 22px; display: inline-block; flex-direction: column; max-width: inherit !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a name="4OUJ33BIZMI6TDXPBV2PJPYCSU" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a></font></font><div class="author-sig-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">and</span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div><div class="author-wrapper" data-authorname="Juliet Eilperin" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative;"><div class="author-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; float: left;"><a class="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/juliet-eilperin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Juliet Eilperin</a></div></div></div></div><span class="author-timestamp" itemprop="datePublished" content="2019-04-03T07:26-500" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">April 3</span></div><p data-elm-loc="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The law and lobbying firm that previously employed President Trump’s pick to run the Interior Department saw a surge in revenue from clients hoping to influence the agency after he left for its upper ranks in 2017.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past three years, according to federal records, acting interior secretary David Bernhardt’s former firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has quadrupled its business related to Interior.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2018, two dozen clients paid BHFS a total of $4.8 million to lobby Interior, according to data compiled from a&nbsp;<a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=selectfields" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">lobbying database</a>&nbsp;maintained by the Senate. During the previous year, when Bernhardt left the firm to join the Trump administration as deputy secretary, it collected a total of $3.5 million in Interior-related revenue.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By comparison, the firm’s total income to lobby Interior in 2016 was $1.2 million. During all but one year going back to 2009, BHFS‘s Interior-related revenue never broke seven figures.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb="inline_bb" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb="zeus_a_inline_bb" hb_size_appnexus="hb_size_appnexus" x250="x250" hb_pb_appnexus="hb_pb_appnexus" hb_adid_appnexus="hb_adid_appnexus" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="COWDm9_7v-MCFclIAQod9MMKPw" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_13container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The striking uptick in the amount of lobbying revenue could provide fuel to Bernhardt’s critics as he heads toward a confirmation vote before a Senate committee on Thursday. The former lobbyist on energy and water issues is already under scrutiny by Democratic lawmakers, advocates and the agency’s inspector general over his long list of former industry clients.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s also a sign of how the revolving door between industry and government is still spinning two years after Trump won the presidency with a mantra to “drain the swamp” of special interests.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="7" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Any senator thinking of casting their vote for this nomination should take a long pause and closer look at his conflicts of interests before doing so,” Jayson O’Neill, deputy director of the liberal advocacy group Western Values Project, said in an email.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_2" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_2="inline_bb_2" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_2="zeus_a_inline_bb_2" categoryexclusions="categoryExclusions" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="CJm05c37v-MCFVB7AQodDvQPpA" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_5container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These yearly sums do not differentiate between money paid to BHFS to lobby Interior on a particular topic and money paid to lobby another part of the federal government, such as Congress, on the same issues.</font></p><div data-elm-loc="9" class="inline-content inline-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 12px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative;"><div class="fallback-available" data-fallback-image-url="https://chartable-images.edapps.nile.works/chartable/5ca4d4fdedba6517a8c8de31/2300.jpg?v=1554306301.828438" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><img width="100%" src="https://chartable-images.edapps.nile.works/chartable/5ca4d4fdedba6517a8c8de31/latest.svg?v=1554306301.828464" source-edit="https://chartable.edapps.nile.works/chart/edit/5ca4d4fdedba6517a8c8de31" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; max-width: 100%;" /></div></div><p data-elm-loc="10" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For its part, BHFS said the firm’s Interior-related revenue went up just as Trump entered office and kick-started new work on public lands. The firm said it saw a similar boost<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&nbsp;</b>in clients focused on the Energy Department at the beginning of President Barack Obama’s first term, after his administration offered new energy funding opportunities as part of its effort to stimulate the economy.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Given this President said he would do more on projects dealing with federal lands, it is not surprising that our firm has seen an increase in available work there,” the firm said in a statement. “Brownstein has established an industry-leading team with extensive experience managing policy issues related to natural resource development at all levels of government. This combination of experience and policy change are the conditions that have historically grown our business.”</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_3" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_3="inline_bb_3" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_3="zeus_a_inline_bb_3" categoryexclusions="categoryExclusions" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="CPyND7v-MCFUJ1AQodGR0PEw" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_7container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="12" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior spokeswoman Faith Vander Voort said in an email that while the department cannot comment on the revenue of Bernhardt’s former firm, the acting secretary clears all matters involving former clients with Interior ethics experts.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="13" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The acting secretary actively seeks and consults with the Department’s designated ethics officials for advice on particular matters involving former clients,” she said, “and the acting secretary has implemented a robust screening process to ensure that he does not meet with his former firm or former clients to participate in particular matters involving specific parties that the acting secretary has committed to recuse himself from.”</font></p><p data-elm-loc="14" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, Interior’s Office of Inspector General&nbsp;<a href="https://wapo.st/2FJqr86" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">confirmed that it was reviewing allegations</a>&nbsp;that Bernhardt violated the Trump administration’s ethics pledge by working on California water policies that could affect the Westlands Water District — which is still a BHFS client — while in office.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_4" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_4="inline_bb_4" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_4="zeus_a_inline_bb_4" trustx_size="trustx_size" x250="x250" trustx_pb="trustx_pb" hb_bidder="hb_bidder" trustx="trustx" hb_adid_trustx="hb_adid_trustx" hb_size_appnexus="hb_size_appnexus" hb_pb_appnexus="hb_pb_appnexus" hb_adid_appnexus="hb_adid_appnexus" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="COCFzNz7v-MCFVROAQod3okFBA" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_12container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="15" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt denies that he improperly helped the large agricultural water district, and Interior ethics officials have said his work did not constitute a conflict. Bernhardt’s ethics pledge to recuse himself from weighing in on “particular matters” affecting Westlands and three other clients ended on Aug. 1, 2018. He is still recused from taking action on specific matters affecting 22 other clients until August of this year.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="16" class="interstitial-link " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-man-behind-the-curtain-interiors-no-2-helps-drive-trumps-agenda/2018/11/18/6403eb4c-e9ff-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.bf1f5999a730" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">Bernhardt has so many former lobbying clients he needs a card to list them all</a>]</font></i></p><p data-elm-loc="17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a separate development, Interior has released new scheduling documents for Bernhardt, known as&nbsp;<a href="https://wapo.st/2OsFjvq" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">daily cards</a>, that shed new light on Bernhardt’s activities since joining Interior in August 2017. On May 24, 2018, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/david_bernhardt_calendar_may_2018_redacted.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">new records</a>&nbsp;show, Bernhardt participated in a video conference call with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials on the delta smelt. The tiny and imperiled species lies at the heart of federal and state water policy in California’s Central Valley, since water diverted for the delta smelt has meant less irrigation water for Westlands and other agricultural districts.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_5" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_5="inline_bb_5" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_5="zeus_a_inline_bb_5" categoryexclusions="categoryExclusions" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="CJT039H7v-MCFRcYAQod54MKug" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_8container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB_CZF0EJcI&feature=youtu.be" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">floor speech</a>&nbsp;Wednesday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a senior member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, argued that the panel should postpone a vote on Bernhardt’s nomination given the current questions surrounding his past lobbying work.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="19" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I do not believe the Senate should allow the Interior Department to turn into a revolving door of corruption and scandal,” Wyden said.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="20" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), like other Republicans on the panel,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/03/28/bernhardts-past-lobbyist-casts-shadow-acting-interior-secretarys-confirmation-hearing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">defended</a>&nbsp;Bernhardt during last’s week’s confirmation hearing as a victim of a “double standard,” noting that one of Obama’s interior secretaries once worked as a petroleum engineer and outdoor retail executive.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="21" class="interstitial-link " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/03/29/the-energy-202-top-democrat-blasts-ethics-of-trump-interior-secretary-nominee/5c9d05911b326b0f7f38f2a0/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">The Energy 202: Senate Democrat blasts ethics of Trump Interior secretary nominee</a>]</font></i></p><p data-elm-loc="22" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The increase in BHFS’s Interior-related revenue also highlights how the firm has emerged in Trump’s Washington as a well-connected lobbying outfit on the management of federal lands.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_6" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_6="inline_bb_6" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_6="zeus_a_inline_bb_6" categoryexclusions="categoryExclusions" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="CJX039H7v-MCFRcYAQod54MKug" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_9container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="23" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of that Denver-based firm’s work concerns land and tribal issues at the heart of the portfolio of the Interior Department, which altogether oversees 1 in every 5 acres of land in the United States. The department’s decisions can have far-reaching ramifications for many industries, including energy, mining and farming.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="24" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the course of 2017 and 2018, BHFS representatives helped arrange at least eight calls or meetings between clients and Interior officials below Bernhardt, according to calendars published on the department’s website under the Freedom of Information Act.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="25" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though Bernhardt has recused himself from weighing in on policies targeted at specific clients, such as the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District, BHFS&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-man-behind-the-curtain-interiors-no-2-helps-drive-trumps-agenda/2018/11/18/6403eb4c-e9ff-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html?utm_term=.8aad590bb640" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">has continued to tout&nbsp;</a>its ties to top Trump officials. “Many of the decision-makers in the agencies are former co-workers and colleagues,” BHFS wrote in a Dec. 20, 2017, letter to that district explaining why it would double its monthly fees to work on a controversial plan to tap water from the Missouri River.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px auto; padding: 24px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(247, 247, 247); width: 837.875px;"><wp-ad id="slug_inline_bb_7" class="wp-inline-bb pb-centered-bb" aria-hidden="true" data-slot="climate-environment" data-json="{" targeting="targeting" pos="pos" inline_bb_7="inline_bb_7" ctr="ctr" zeus_a_inline_bb_7="zeus_a_inline_bb_7" categoryexclusions="categoryExclusions" data-size="[[2,1],[300,250]," fluid="fluid" data-refresh="on" data-google-query-id="COCL4NH7v-MCFUdqAQodmDsG6g" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/701/wpni.climate-environment_10container__" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><p data-elm-loc="26" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And some of the firm’s clients have seen some favorable policy decisions. Among them is Cadiz, a publicly traded water company that paid BHFS $110,000 per quarter over the course of 2017 and 2018.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="27" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For decades, the company&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-massive-aquifer-lies-beneath-the-mojave-desert-could-it-help-solve-californias-water-problem/2019/03/03/a5d8fe14-354e-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.29be5176e46a" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">has sought to tap a massive aquifer beneath the Mojave Desert</a>&nbsp;for perennially thirsty farmers and city-dwellers in California. In 2017, Interior exempted the project from a federal review imposed on it by the previous administration.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="28" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bernhardt has formally recused himself from issues involving Cadiz.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="29" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But another BHFS client from which Bernhardt is recused, an affiliate of MGM Resorts International, won only a temporary victory under Trump.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="30" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MGM has opposed the effort of two Connecticut tribes, the Mashantucket Pequot and the Mohegan, to run a casino in East Windsor, Conn. MGM Public Policy has paid BHFS a total of $560,000 since 2017 to retain it as a representative on tribal-gaming issues.</font></p><p data-elm-loc="31" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 4px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: calc(1.5em + 0.3333vw);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The previous Interior chief, Ryan Zinke, decided in 2017 not to grant the tribes approval, a decision they charge stemmed from political pressure. The matter has sparked&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/grand-jury-is-examining-whether-former-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-lied-to-federal-investigators/2019/02/22/0fb2427a-36c4-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.9377dbad82bd" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213);">a Justice Department probe</a>into the former interior secretary.</font></p></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></div></wp-ad></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></section><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 21, however, Interior published a notice in the Federal Register approving the tribes’ amended gaming compacts. This will allow them to operate a commercial casino just 12 miles away from MGM’s gambling complex in Springfield, Mass.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiTmJ60-L_jAhXRX80KHbFfCgMQFSgAMAJ6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/&ved=2ahUKEwiTmJ60-L_jAhXRX80KHbFfCgMQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/&ved=2ahUKEwiTmJ60-L_jAhXRX80KHbFfCgMQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://westernvaluesproject.org/report-lobbyist-turned-interior-deputy-david-bernhardts-dirty-record-after-one-year/&ved=2ahUKEwiTmJ60-L_jAhXRX80KHbFfCgMQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">REPORT: Lobbyist-Turned-Interior-Deputy David Bernhardt's Dirty ...</a></font></font></font></font></h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../firm-that-once-employed-trumps-pick-run-interior-i...</cite></font></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Apr 3, 2019 -&nbsp;</span>A card with clients of Interior acting secretary&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">David Bernhardt</span>&nbsp;are seen .... Among them is&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cadiz</span>, a publicly traded water company that paid&nbsp;...</font></span></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; line-height: 1.66; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></p>