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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SEE FOSSIL FUEL FOIA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">retired why? replaced by lawler</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AFPM collaborated with its members over the past year to support</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">changes to its climate policy. While we are encouraged by this</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">progress, BP and AFPM’s views on carbon pricing are at odds and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">currently we have no areas of full alignment. As a result, we have</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">decided to resign our membership.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Western Energy Alliance (WEA)</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We have decided not to renew our membership with WEA due to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">material differences around the federal regulation of methane and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">due to BP’s divestment of assets in the states in which the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">organization is active.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BP has decided to resign its membership in WSPA as a result of...</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">replaced by </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>BP announced that David C. Lawler will succeed Susan Dio as chairman and president of BP America Inc., effective July 1, 2020.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dio, a 36-year veteran of BP who has served as BP America chairman and president since 2018, will retire later this year.</b> A chemical engineer by training, she led the company through a dynamic period, including the rebuilding of BP’s U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas, after Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and the response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. Dio rose through the ranks during a remarkable career, serving previously as head of global shipping and holding senior commercial and operating roles in BP and its heritage companies in refining, petrochemicals and various other oil and gas businesses in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lawler, who is currently CEO of BPX Energy, BP’s U.S. onshore oil and gas business, will become BP’s chief representative in the United States</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He will continue as CEO of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BPX Energy when he assumes his new role in July. With 13,000 employees and USD30 billion invested since 2016, BP has a larger economic footprint in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world. In 2019, these businesses accounted for a third of BP’s global revenue.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Lawler will take the helm as BP embarks on a new ambition to become net zero by 2050 or sooner and to help the world get to net zero.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lawler has served as CEO of BPX Energy since 2014. In 2018, he led the USD10.5 billion acquisition and integration of BHP’s American shale assets, BP’s largest acquisition since buying ARCO in 1999. BPX Energy delivered more than USD240 million in acquisition synergies in the first year, far exceeding initial expectations of USD90 million.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to focusing investment on the highest quality barrels – aimed at delivering returns and cash flow rather than production volumes alone – Lawler’s team also developed oilfield infrastructure to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> lower operational emissions and eventually eliminate routine flaring in the Permian Basin</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Every day the BP America team works to deliver the energy the world needs. I’m honored to help them do that while also driving our transformation to become a<b> net zero energy company,</b>” said Lawler. “And we are committed to performing while transforming, keeping safety our top priority and continuing to provide competitive returns.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Lawler joined BPX Energy in September 2014 from SandRidge Energy, Inc., a U.S.-based oil and gas independent headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Prior to Sandridge, he was chief executive officer and president of PostRock Energy Corporation and its predecessor entities, where he worked for four years.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before joining PostRock, Lawler spent 10 years with Shell Exploration and Production Company in a series of roles with increasing responsibility, including business planning for the Americas and engineering and operations manager for the U.S. Gulf Coast business unit. </font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lawler began his career as a production engineer with Conoco and later joined Burlington Resources, where he served in drilling engineering and well site leadership positions prior to joining Shell.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lawler graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Engineering and earned his Master of Business Administration from Tulane University.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to roles at BP America and BPX Energy, he currently serves as a director of the<b> Permian Strategic Partnership</b>, and as a director of the Mewbourne College of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Previously, he served as a member of the board of directors of the Texas Oil & Gas Association from 2015 through 2018, and as a director and member of the audit committee of PennTex Midstream Partners, LP (NASDAQ:PTXP) from 2015 until its sale to Energy Transfer Partners, LP in 2017. </font></span></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">proven executive with 25+ years’ experience in international refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Opponents of a regional proposal to curb transportation sector emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are using a number of deceptive tactics to attack and criticize the Transportation and Climate Initiative. Groups tied to the oil industry have pointed to misleading studies, deployed questionable public opinion polling and circulated an open letter in opposition.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Virginia, a conservative think tank is now touting a biased analysis, dismissed by critics as misleading "scare tactics," authored by anti-environmental attorney David Schnare, that questions Virginia's legal authority to participate in the regional program.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Transportation and Climate Initiative aims to reduce carbon emissions from on-road vehicles by up to 25 percent over 10 years through a cap-and-invest model, whereby fuel suppliers and distributors would purchase allowances allocated under the cap, and proceeds would be invested into clean transportation initiatives. The program is modeled after the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative for the power sector, which is expected to result in CO2 emission reductions of 45 percent below 2005 levels by this year. But critics of the TCI proposal, many of whom also opposed RGGI, claim that it will do little to cut emissions and is just a scheme to raise gas prices, equivalent to a gas tax.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to a legal analysis on Virginia's participation in the program, published by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, "TCI proposes rationing gasoline and diesel fuel sales and initiating a per gallon gas tax hike." David Schnare, who wrote the analysis, claims that the program would impose not a fee but a tax and therefore requires authorization by the state legislature. Virginia's governor, Schnare says, does not have unilateral authority to join TCI. Schnare also threatens to sue should Virginia attempt to join TCI without authorization by the legislature.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We hope the Governor simply chooses to withdraw," Schnare said. "But any effort to impose TCI unilaterally without the General Assembly will certainly be met with appropriate legal action."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Nothing in the TCI program would ration gasoline and motor fuels. TCI would simply put a limit on climate pollution," said Mark Kresowik, eastern region deputy director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, emphasizing that TCI is not a tax by any legal standard.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Schnare's Long History Attacking Climate Science and Defending Fossil Fuel Interests</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schnare is currently the Director of the Center for Environmental Stewardship at the Thomas Jefferson Institute, and both he and TJI are part of a larger network linked with fossil fuel interests that work against climate and environmental protection policies.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is a member of the State Policy Network, a Koch-backed web of right-wing think tanks promoting climate science denial and other policy positions that benefit corporate donors. The Jefferson Institute has received funding from Donors Capital Fund ($214,450) and Donors Trust ($5,000), anonymous funding vehicles supporting a number of organizations that promote conservative and free enterprise interests. As DeSmog has noted, "the groups and projects given grants from DCF and DT are among the most active in questioning the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change and blocking attempts to legislate against greenhouse gas emissions." The Jefferson Institute is one such group, and was called out by name by Senate Democrats in 2016 in a series of speeches denouncing climate change denial from 32 organizations with links to fossil-fuel interests.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schnare is a former EPA scientist and attorney and initially was a member of President Trump's EPA transition team. He is affiliated with climate denial groups like the Heartland Institute, and was a speaker at the 2017 Heartland Institute "America First Energy Conference," where he discussed how to challenge the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding that serves as the basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schnare has a history of harassing climate scientists by suing universities to get access to the scientists' emails. In 2011, he unsuccessfully sued the University of Virginia to try to obtain Michael Mann's emails. As DeSmog previously reported, Schnare was forced to pay out $630,000 from a dark money group he co-founded with Christopher Horner, the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic. The payout resulted from a heated legal dispute in which Schnare is alleged to have used FMELC as his personal piggy bank.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schnare's Reports Use Disinformation as “Scare Tactics”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Given this background, it is not surprising that Schnare and the Thomas Jefferson Institute are railing against the proposed Transportation and Climate Initiative. TJI and Schnare have published several misleading analyses of the program claiming it is a "carbon car tax" and would be "all pain and no gain," claims that are simply untrue. The latest legal analysis is a continuation of Schnare making these unfounded arguments. For example, Schnare's claim that TCI "proposes rationing gasoline and diesel fuel sales" is blatantly false, as sources familiar with the program told DeSmog.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This is a pollution reduction program," said Bruce Ho, senior advocate in the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The type of policy [Schnare and TJI] are describing in their paper is not the policy that states are actually proposing."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The oil industry and its allies are going heavy on the scare tactics right now," added Morgan Butler, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center. "TCI is not being designed to ration gas, but rather to help move us beyond it by investing revenues from the program in making cleaner and healthier transportation options more available to everyone."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schnare's claim that Virginia's governor cannot unilaterally join TCI is also not accurate. As Kresowik explained, the governor does have authority to sign on to an agreement or memorandum of understanding (MOU), and then the legislature would have to act to implement the program in the state.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The governor can absolutely sign the memorandum of understanding and move forward with the other states," Kresowik said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The hand waving in this paper that Virginia is doing something that's not allowed is just wrong," added Ho. "Neither Virginia nor any other TCI jurisdiction has proposed skirting those legal requirements. They've been very upfront that they are going to go through all of the legally required processes within states."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ho said that Schnare's entire analysis is disingenuous, as it mischaracterizes what the TCI program is actually proposing. "It's a clear case of fear-mongering, setting up a straw man argument that is just not reflective of reality," he said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schnare's case against TCI runs counter to even oil giant BP's recent endorsement of the program</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> BP America Chairman and President Susain Dio</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, in a piece published last week in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, urged Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and the General Assembly to move forward with both TCI and RGGI. "While a national carbon pricing program would be the gold standard, state and regional plans can play a critical role now," Dio writes. "And we can't wait." BP's support of TCI falls inline with the company's recent announcement that it will no longer lobby against policies that regulate or limit carbon pollution. Though the sincerity of BP's statements are not yet clear, the company's surprise public support of TCI indirectly rebuts and counters both pieces of Schnare's flawed analysis.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Reposted with permission from DeSmog.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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