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<div class="cal-item cal-item-57" 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; clear: both;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" center="center" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" initial="initial" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color"><div class="cal-item cal-item-56" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" tiempos="Tiempos" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" center="center" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" initial="initial" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color"><div class="cal-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; float: left; width: calc(20% - 5px); font-weight: 600; text-align: left;">April 18, 2017</div><div class="cal-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 792px; float: left;"><div class="cal-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Calendar</h4></div><div class="cal-date-tbl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><table class="cal-tbl" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left; width: 792px;"><thead style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 396px;">Attendees</th><th style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 396px;">Topic</th></tr></thead><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">(CCE) Project in Idaho</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Meet w/Alex - 11:30 am</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr with Jim Connaughton</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; 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; width: 396px;">Lunch w/Jim Connaughton</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr with Ted A. Boling</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">April's detail</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr with Daniel Jorjani</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Call with Daniel Jorjani, DOI</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: none; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Mary B. Neumayr</td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: none; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; width: 396px;">Invitation: Mary Neumayr call: redacted @ Tue Apr 18, 2017 4:30pm - 5pm (EDT)</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter#CEQ">https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/wh-complex?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter#CEQ</a>=https://www.whitehouse.gov/people/mary-b-neumayr/off bsmary B. Neumayr is the current Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). She was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 2, 2019, and sworn in as Chairman on January 10, 2019. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Neumayr had been serving as CEQ’s Chief of Staff since March 2017.Before joining CEQ, Ms. Neumayr served in a variety of positions with the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the United States House of Representatives, including as Deputy Chief Counsel, Energy and Environment (2017); Senior Energy Counsel (2011-2017); and Counsel (2009-2010). Ms. Neumayr also served as Deputy General Counsel for Environment and Nuclear Programs at the Department of Energy (2006-2009) and as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice (2003-2006).Prior to her Government service, Ms. Neumayr was in private legal practice from 1989 through 2003 in New York and San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Thomas Aquinas College and J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.WASHINGTON, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Mary Neumayr to be Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality.“Mary Neumayr not only has proven her abilities as the chief of staff and effectively the highest-ranking official at CEQ for more than a year, she has proven her qualifications and dedication in public service throughout her several posts in government.  Prior to CEQ, Mary served for eight years as senior counsel and then deputy chief counsel for energy and environment at the Energy and Commerce Committee, where members on both sides of the aisle benefited from her knowledge and counsel on numerous legislative and policy issues.  Mary Neumayr represents the best of public service.  The President and the country will be well-served by her appointment,” said Chairman Walden.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality</a><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is a division of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Executive Office of the President</a> that coordinates federal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment" title="Natural environment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">environmental</a> efforts in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States</a> and works closely with agencies and other White House offices on the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives.The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Council_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality</a> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_E.Train" title="Russell E. Train" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Russell E. Train</a>, under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Nixon</a>. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a> nominated the agency's acting head, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Neumayr" title="Mary Neumayr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mary Neumayr</a> for the position in June 2018.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> Her nomination was confirmed by the full <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate</a> at the beginning of January 2019.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#Mission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Mission</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2History</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#Origins" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Origins</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#Clinton_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Clinton administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#George_W.Bush_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3George W. Bush administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#Obama_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.4Obama administration</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#Trump_administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.5Trump administration</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Mission[</h2>The CEQ produces an annual report for the president on the state of the environment, oversees federal agency implementation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_assessment" title="Environmental impact assessment" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">environmental impact assessments</a>, and acts as a referee when agencies disagree over the adequacy of such assessments. NEPA tasks CEQ with ensuring that federal agencies meet their obligations under the Act, granting the body a significant role in environmental protection. Through inter-agency working groups and coordination with other EOP bodies, CEQ also works to advance the president's agenda on the environment, natural resources, and energy.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">History[</h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Origins[</h3>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Congress</a> established the CEQ within the Executive Office of the President as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Environmental Policy Act</a> of 1969 (NEPA), during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Nixon</a> administration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> The CEQ was assigned additional responsibilities by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Quality_Improvement_Act" title="Environmental Quality Improvement Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Environmental Quality Improvement Act</a> of 1970. In enacting NEPA, Congress recognized that nearly all federal activities affect the environment in some way, and mandated that federal agencies must consider the environmental effects of their actions during their planning and decision-making processes. Under NEPA, CEQ works to balance environmental, economic, and social objectives in pursuit of NEPA's goal of "productive harmony" between humans and their environment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Clinton administration[</h3>President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> appointed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_McGinty" class="mw-redirect" title="Kathleen McGinty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kathleen McGinty</a> and then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T.Frampton_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="George T. Frampton Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George T. Frampton Jr.</a> to chair the agency.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">George W. Bush administration[</h3>President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George W. Bush</a>'s CEQ chairman was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L.Connaughton" title="James L. Connaughton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">James L. Connaughton</a>, serving from 2001 to 2009. He was formerly a partner at the law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidley_Austin_LLP" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidley Austin LLP" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sidley Austin LLP</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a> where he <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbied</a> to reduce government regulation on behalf of clients including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_Company_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Aluminum Company of America" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Aluminum Company of America</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chemical Manufacturers Association of America</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>During the Bush administration, there were concerns over links between CEQ staffers and the industries it oversaw. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">BBC</a> Environment Analyst <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Harrabin" title="Roger Harrabin" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Harrabin</a> described it as "a hard-line group of advisers with close links to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_in_the_United_States" title="Petroleum in the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. oil industry</a>."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> One CEQ chief of staff under President Bush, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Cooney" title="Philip Cooney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Philip Cooney</a>, was previously a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbyist" class="mw-redirect" title="Lobbyist" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbyist</a> employed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute" title="American Petroleum Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> In June 2005, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a> published an internal CEQ memo provided by federal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower" title="Whistleblower" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">whistleblower</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Piltz" class="mw-redirect" title="Rick Piltz" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Rick Piltz</a>. The memo showed Cooney had repeatedly edited government climate reports in order to play down links between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas" title="Exhaust gas" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">emissions</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">global warming</a>. Cooney, who claimed he had been planning to resign for two years, resigned two days after the scandal broke "to spend more time with his family."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> Immediately after resigning, Cooney went to work for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">ExxonMobil</a> in their public affairs department.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a> In 2005 Piltz created a watchdog organization Climate Science Watch, a program of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Project" title="Government Accountability Project" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Government Accountability Project</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Obama administration[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Council_on_Environmental_Quality&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Obama administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sutley" title="Nancy Sutley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nancy Sutley</a> served as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Council_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality</a> from January 2009<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> until February 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> Following Sutley's departure, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Boots" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Boots" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Boots</a> served as acting head of the Council until March 2015.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Goldfuss" title="Christy Goldfuss" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christy Goldfuss</a> was appointed to succeed Boots, and served in the same capacity, as "managing director", until the end of Obama's term, in January 2017.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Trump administration[</h3>In October 2017, President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> nominated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Hartnett_White" title="Kathleen Hartnett White" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kathleen Hartnett White</a>, former chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Commission_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Texas Commission on Environmental Quality" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Texas Commission on Environmental Quality</a>, to be chair of CEQ.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[18]</a> However, her nomination was withdrawn in February 2018 as she did not garner enough support in the Senate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[19]</a> CEQ chief of staff and acting head Mary Neumayr was nominated and considered in summer 2018 as chair, subject to full Senate confirmation vote.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">See also[</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Council_on_Environmental_Quality" title="Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States" title="Executive Office of the President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Executive Office of the President of the United States</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_2000_Report_to_the_President" title="The Global 2000 Report to the President" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Global 2000 Report to the President</a></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; 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counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }Wilson, Jamie "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/usa/story/0,12271,1507554,00.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Cooney move to ExxonMobil</a>," The Guardian, June 16, 2005</li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Environmental_Quality#cite_ref-11" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/06/trump-has-filled-just-15-percent-of-the-governments-top-science-jobs/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">85 percent of the top science jobs in Trump's government don't even have a nominee</a>". The Washington Post. washingtonpost.com. Retrieved February 4, 2018. 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/14/news/la-pn-obama-environmental-advisor-20140213" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" b4b84="b4b84" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">Obama's environmental advisor set to return to Los Angeles</a>". Los Angeles Times. latimes.com. Retrieved February 4, 2018. 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If confirmed to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality, she would be coordinating environmental efforts across the federal agencies.As a fellow of the conservative Austin-based think tank, the <a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a>, White leaves a long paper trail that will surely be fodder for her <a href="https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL30959.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">confirmation</a> hearing. The group has been <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-billionaires-that-fund-the-texas-public-policy-foundation/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">funded by fossil fuel interests</a>, including Exxon and the Koch brothers.She has decried regulation of carbon dioxide, which she calls "the gas of life," and co-authored last year's paean to the fracking boom, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fueling-Freedom-Exposing-Mad-Energy/dp/1621574091" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy</a>." Her co-author, economist Stephen Moore, founded the Club for Growth, the political action group that weaponized the primary process to successfully <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/03/us/conservative-takes-on-moderate-gop-senator-in-pennsylvania.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">move the Republican party to the right</a> over the past two decades."An invisible, harmless trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, CO2 is a plant food," White said last year in a <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-oil-qa-front-burner-2-20161007-story.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Q&A with the Orlando Sentinel</a>.In her 2014 monograph, "<a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/library/doclib/2014-06-RR03-FossilFuelsTheMoralCase-KathleenWhite-ACEE.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Fossil Fuels: The Moral Case</a>," she wrote: "Humanity's use of fossil fuels has released whole populations from abject poverty. ... Until energy sources fully comparable or superior to fossil fuels are securely available, policies to reduce emissions of CO2 should proceed with caution lest they prematurely exhaust the well-springs of mankind's greatest advance."She has also promoted tactics for undermining the <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/254629181/Endangered-Species-Act-a-look-ahead" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Endangered Species Act</a>, claiming its protections for endangered wildlife imperil prosperity.In its announcement Thursday of Trump's intent to nominate White, the White House highlighted her role on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (2001-2007) and as a former director of the Lower Colorado River Authority.  White's appointment to a top position in the administration has long been rumored; she met with the president-elect in Trump Tower while he was mulling his choice for Environmental Protection Agency administrator. But her supporters betrayed no sense of disappointment when Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was named to that post instead.At an energy policy summit that the Texas Public Policy Foundation co-hosted with the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., last December, the group's president Brooke Rollins, said she expected that there would be "something very special" ahead for White in the Trump administration.</div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em;"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;">PUBLISHED UNDER:</label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/politics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">POLITICS</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/denial" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CLIMATE DENIAL</a></div> <div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/regulation" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">REGULATION</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topic/climate-change" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CLIMATE CHANGE</a></div> <div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/donald-trump" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">DONALD TRUMP</a></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ebell works w/ CEQ to kill McCain-Lieberman bill:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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Kert Davies, originally published on <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/covert-attack-john-mccain-climate-change-exxonmobil-koch-brothers/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ClimateInvestigations.org</a> 
 <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a>’  Marianne Lavelle published a long piece this weekend, chronicling Senator John McCain’s rise and fall as a climate leader.  The story highlights a campaign I worked on in 2000, where we asked all the presidential candidates the simple and still pertinent question, “What’s Your Plan?” on global warming.McCain was one of the only candidates that took it on. He went back to Washington in the middle of 2000, having been defeated by George W. Bush in the primaries, and immediately started holding hearings on climate change science.As always, there is more to the story.  When McCain emerged as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040402004205/http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04spr/mccain1.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">“Captain Climate” </a>in the early 2000s, and introduced the first serious bipartisan legislation to cut emissions, he became the target of a multifaceted attack by anti-regulatory free market organizations.  It turns out, many of these organizations and front groups were quietly being funded by ExxonMobil and the Koch brothers.This pressure may partly explain why McCain <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/11/as-the-world-burns" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">later abandoned climate change</a> when he ran for President in 2008 and <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/11/mccain-slams-horrendous-climate-bill-029747" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">attacked his colleagues’ efforts</a> during the 2009 push for climate legislation.  By that point McCain had succumbed to the now standard Republican talking points on climate.  Oh, and lest we forget, he also picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and starting down the “<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/90075-mccain-palin-revive-drill-baby-drill-slogan-from-08-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Drill, Baby, Drill</a>” path (the opposite of sane climate policy) and the rest is history.  No one has really explained how this turn away from climate leadership really happened. Most commentators attribute it to political choices McCain himself made, without really analyzing the outside pressure that closed in on McCain from 2000 to 2008.  <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082018/john-mccain-climate-change-leadership-senate-cap-trade-bipartisan-lieberman-republican-campaign" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">InsideClimate News</a> notes briefly that there was a coordinated effort to oppose McCain’s efforts run by corporate-funded entities.  Climate Investigations Center went back and looked at our records for documentation of the campaign to the kill the <a href="https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2001/8/post-4be0be1b-0295-42bf-a9e8-f0ed44f1a8aa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">McCain-Lieberman climate legislation</a> as it gained momentum. First introduced in 2001 by the two Senators, The Climate Stewardship Act (S.139) was the first national, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas pollution. This bill eventually became the ground-zero target for climate deniers and corporate interests.Unfortunately, a month after the first McCain-Lieberman bill was introduced, the attacks on September 11th changed everything. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/attacked/transcripts/nbctext_102101.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">McCain and Lieberman</a>, a neo-con Democrat at the time, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/on-morning-of-9-11-attacks-mccain-immediately-began-making-the-case-for-iraq-war-4042b28b5f9b/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">were among the first to lead</a> the charge to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, well ahead of the Bush Administration according to many accounts from that time.By 2003, McCain and Lieberman got back to thinking about climate change together and leveraged the first full Senate vote on their bill by <a href="https://theconversation.com/will-john-mccain-be-the-last-republican-leader-in-the-senate-to-address-climate-change-102221" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">forcing Majority Leader Bill Frist’s hand </a>on an energy bill he was trying to pass.The McCain-Lieberman bill garnered surprising support but lost 43-55, well short of the 60 votes needed to avoid an override under Senate rule.  Corporations saw this as a close call and began a concerted effort to kill the momentum in 2004 (see below). In 2005, the bill was renamed The Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act, and in McCain style, stubbornly brought up for another vote where it lost by a bigger margin, 38 Yea to 60 Nay votes.I know for a fact that they got blindsided on this.  They thought they had paved the way for success. In a meeting with a McCain staffer after the second vote, I showed them an ExxonSecrets map (similar to the one below) of the organizations and individuals that worked to kill the bill.  The staffer knew there were various organizations and companies lobbying against the bill, but had no idea the level of coordination, nor the ExxonMobil funding channels.[secrets chart]<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Was the Exxon Denial Machine built to fight Sen. McCain?</h3>It has always been interesting that our database of ExxonMobil climate denial funding shows a dramatic increase in spending after 2000, which coincides with McCain emerging as a climate champion.<img alt="" src="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/exxon%20grants.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 411px; width: 683px;" />The graph above shows the yearly totals of ExxonMobil’s grants to climate denying non-profit organizations and breaks out the total grants specifically earmarked for climate change between the years of 1997-2006.Conventional wisdom would suggest that corporate polluters thought they were off the hook with the Bush-Cheney victory over Gore-Lieberman.  Yet ExxonMobil’s funding of climate denial organizations ballooned to its highest levels between 2000 and 2005 as the McCain-Lieberman legislation gained momentum. Between 2003-2005, Exxon wrote grants totaling more than $3.3 million dollars each year to climate-denying organizations.The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the leader of the <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition </a>(CHC) and recipient of over $2 million dollars total from ExxonMobil between 1997-2005, aggressively fought Sen. McCain’s climate leadership in the early 2000s. A<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4793357-2004-July-CEI-Myron-Ebell-leaked-email-targeting.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"> leaked 2003 email from Myron Ebell</a>, Director of Global Warming Policy at CEI, lays out a target list for lobbying against the “McLieberman” bill. <a href="http://www.climatefiles.com/denial-groups/cei/cei-white-house-congress-energy-policy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">FOIAed documents</a> show communications in 2003 between Myron Ebell and the Bush White HouseCouncil on Environmental Quality, where Ebell details the campaign against McCain.  CEI also put out <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877869-Cei-Email-103003-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">press releases</a> against the legislation, held <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877863-Cei-Email-102303-1-728.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">events </a>to debate it, and used the CHC network of climate deniers to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">wage their campaign</a>.The Exxon-funded groups were also being funded by the Koch brothers and their foundations.  In January 2003, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031207033457/http://www.cse.org:80/informed/issues_template.php/1238.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CEI co-authored a letter with the Koch-funded Citizen’s for Sound Economy</a> to the Bush Whitehouse decrying the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p41/a289372" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">ExxonMobil gave CEI $465,000 that year</a> according to Exxon documents, the largest Exxon haul by CEI in any year.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450857" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">An unredacted CEI IRS 990</a> for 2003 lists a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4797409-Competitive-Enterprise-Institute-CEI-2003-IRS.html#document/p14/a450858" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$100,000 donation from David Koch himself</a> and only $180,000 from ExxonMobil (probably an accounting anomaly).<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">United 4 Jobs, DCI Group and Exxon cash</h3><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">[banner] patriotic hard hat</h3>Following the 2003 vote on McCain Lieberman bill, the corporate forces got their act together.  In 2004, a front group coalition was set up called United4Jobs.org, complete with an American Flag and a hard hat.  Here’s some of what we know:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080826/http://www.united4jobs.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The United for Jobs website in 2004 said it was “a project of”</a> the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), which received $50,000 from ExxonMobil in 2004, and the National Association of Neighborhoods, which also received $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2004 (<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p6/a260594" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">including $25,000 earmarked for “Climate Change Issues.”</a>) along with the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council).<img alt="" src="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Screen-Shot-2018-08-30-at-11.07.22-AM.png" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 565px; width: 600px;" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li>The United4Jobs project was maintained by DCI Group, a public relations company based in Washington, DC.  DCI Group is a long time ExxonMobil contractor and has a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-alford-national-black-chamber-commerce/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">history</a> of setting up front groups for corporate clients, including the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/fossil-fuels-fishy-new-friends" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">fossil fuel industry</a>, even today.  (Bloomberg News’ Zach Mider and Ben Elgin’s recent expose series on DCI Group is worth reading.)
 </li><li>Proof of the DCI Group’s work on the United4Jobs campaign can be found on the Internet archive WayBack Machine. The contact information of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Andrea Saul</a> and other employees at DCI group at the time, can be found on United4Jobs’ <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060502132955/http://www.courierpress.com:80/ecp/ebj_bn_nr_in/article/0,2578,ECP_19931_4591597,00.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">press releases</a>, webpages, and reports.
 </li><li><a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tech Central Station</a> (TCS), was another DCI Group project, built as a corporate op-ed page, funded by a number of companies to get third party voices published on issues they cared about. TCS prominently featured climate change denial content. In 2003, the year Tech Central was launched, ExxonMobil gave a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019876-2003-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p44/a258254" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$95,000 grant to an organization called “Tech Central Science Foundation</a>” which we presume served as the fiscal agent behind Tech Central Station, though no such Foundation ever registered with the IRS, as far as we know.
 </li><li>From 2003 to 2005, these two DCI Group’s creations, Tech Central and United4Jobs, were used together to fight the McCain-Lieberman legislation.  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tech Central Science Foundation</a>, the ExxonMobil funded org, paid Charles River and Associates to produce <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4792633-2003-Charles-River-Associates-Tech-Central.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">a report published in October 2003</a> on the theoretical economic impact of the McCain-Lieberman bill. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">United4Jobs pushed that report </a>throughout <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040617064632/http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org:80/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-5&CID=8040-060704A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">2004 </a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061006080619/http://www.united4jobs.org/studies/report.aspx?id=7" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">2005</a> claiming repeatedly that one million jobs would be lost if the McCain-Lieberman climate bill was passed and implemented.
 </li><li>The Exxon-funded <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/climate-deniers/cooler-heads-coalition/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Cooler Heads Coalition</a> also pushed the TCS report on McCain-Lieberman in its June 2004 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3877746-Cei-Email-6904-1-728-1-Not-Duplicative.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">newsletter</a>. Published by CEI, the newsletter cites United for Jobs and the American Council for Capital Formation (another Exxon funded organization) as co-releasing the report. ACCF received a large ExxonMobil grant ($255,000) that year including <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1019878-2004-exxon-giving-report.html#document/p1/a258280" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$180,000 earmarked for “climate change”</a>.
 </li><li>Tech Central Station served as a hub for climate science and policy misinformation during this period, much of which was aimed at McCain-Lieberman. TCS’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060317152414/http:/www.tcsdaily.com/sections/science_roundtable.aspx" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Daily Science Roundtable</a> included a slew of climate change deniers such as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sallie-baliunas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Tim Ball</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-c-balling-jr" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Robert C. Balling, Jr</a>., <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-legates" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">David Legates</a>,<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"> Patrick Michaels</a>, Roy Spencer, and others, according to an archived version of their website.
 </li><li>As CIC has <a href="http://climateinvestigations.org/dci_group_subpoena_exxon_climate_fraud/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">previously written</a>, Tech Central and DCI Group ran multiple climate change denial campaigns for ExxonMobil during this period, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115457177198425388" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">attacking Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth”</a> and in June 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina, DCI and Tech Central produced and distributed a canned <a href="https://youtu.be/DXBqe7ngp24" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Video News Release (VNR) </a>declaring that there was no scientific evidence <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr40" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">linking dangerous hurricanes with climate change</a>. The VNR listed “TCS Daily Science Roundtable” as the producer.  VNRs are pre-produced segments designed to look like a news story, contracted generally by corporations, sent out to news stations in hopes of getting them aired as if they were news.  This one was aired on at least one TV station along the Gulf Coast.</li></ul><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Kochtopus Tentacles Ensnare McCain</h3>Well before the Koch brothers became a household name, they were hard at work influencing our political system.  It is safe to assume that the Koch campaign against climate progress ramped up in the mid-2000s targeted Senator McCain.<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/nancy-pfotenhauer-mccains-dirty-energy-spokeswoman-972466b6f15b/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">McCain’s presidential campaign was staffed by the long-time Koch operative</a> <a href="https://littlesis.org/person/41341/Nancy_Pfotenhauer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Nancy Pfotenhauer.</a> The Koch network veteran became one of  McCain’s top policy advisors for his 2008 campaign, after she left her position as the leader of the Koch-controlled Americans for Prosperity (AFP). Pfotenhauer began working directly for Koch Industries in the mid-1990s and led its federal lobbying shop during Clinton’s second term. After Bush became president in 2001, Pfotenhauer took on another Koch-funded group (<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/meet-the-feminists-doing-the-koch-brothers-dirty-work/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Independent Women’s Forum)</a> and then became the head of the core Koch-controlled group in Washington, DC, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). CSE was created by Charles Koch’s right-hand man Richard Fink and later became AFP. Pfotenhauer left AFP to work for McCain in 2007. That year, McCain attended the Kochs’ first AFP “Defending the American Dream” summit. After he lost, she went back to Koch Industries as an official spokesperson and started a consulting firm that represented Koch Industries and the Kochs in the media.
 </li><li>CSE was active in attacking efforts to address climate change when Pfotenhauer was working for Koch Industries directly and when she helmed CSE (which she led for a period as a joint operation with the Koch-funded Independent Women’s Forum). For example, in 2003, <a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/content/cse-urges-no-vote-s-139-climate-stewardship-act-0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CSE staunchly backed Exxon in its shareholder controversy and lobbied against McCain’s Climate Stewardship Acts</a>. CSE also advised members of Congress that it would score and publicize to their constituents their votes on McCain’s legislation. After CSE was rebranded as AFP on her watch, the Koch group continued to attack measures to mitigate climate change in numerous ways. (PDFs available.)
 </li><li>In 2008, as Pfotenhauer served as one of McCain’s top advisors <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=91462" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">on energy policy </a>and touted his <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1018" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">“market based approach”</a> to our climate and environment, AFP ran a national state-by-state roadshow to influence elections and policy, called the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080501145049/http://www.hotairtour.org:80/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">“Hot Air Tour”</a>.</li></ul></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">john howard gets ltr from randy randol, ask to dump scu robt watson IPCC</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KgG9kUU_upwC&pg=PT19&lpg=PT19&dq=paula+dobriansky+API+Kyoto&source=bl&ots=93skxVbLyQ&sig=hjbgkGUWhi0H8AUFSRihc4-OOXs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjes4zhqdjaAhXk8YMKHYzSCFkQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=paula%20dobriansky%20API%20Kyoto&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=KgG9kUU_upwC&pg=PT19&lpg=PT19&dq=paula+dobriansky+API+Kyoto&source=bl&ots=93skxVbLyQ&sig=hjbgkGUWhi0H8AUFSRihc4-OOXs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjes4zhqdjaAhXk8YMKHYzSCFkQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=paula%20dobriansky%20API%20Kyoto&f=false</a></div><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/17/architect-fracking-loophole-trump-environmental-council-bill-cooper" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The deconstruction continues</a> –> Steve Horn reports for DeSmogBlog that the Trump administration is considering a fracking lobbyist to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Bill Cooper is best known among industry insiders as the man who successfully pushed the “Halliburton loophole,” a provision that exempted fracking from EPA oversight under the Safe Drinking Water Act, making it more complicated for regulators to crack down on gas drillers who polluted water supplies.=<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/17/architect-fracking-loophole-trump-environmental-council-bill-cooper" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The deconstruction continues</a> –> Steve Horn reports for DeSmogBlog that the Trump administration is considering a fracking lobbyist to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Bill Cooper is best known among industry insiders as the man who successfully pushed the “Halliburton loophole,” a provision that exempted fracking from EPA oversight under the Safe Drinking Water Act, making it more complicated for regulators to crack down on gas drillers who polluted water supplies.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/17/architect-fracking-loophole-trump-environmental-council-bill-cooper">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/17/architect-fracking-loophole-trump-environmental-council-bill-cooper</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">no many link</div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Architect of Federal Fracking Loophole May Head Trump Environmental Council</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Steve Horn • Friday, March 17, 2017 - 03:58</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">Confidential sources have told Politico that Bill Cooper — current congressional staffer and former fossil fuel industry lobbyist and attorney — is under consideration to head President Donald Trump's White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CEQ works to coordinate various federal agencies dealing with environmental and energy public policy issues and oversees the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process for proposed infrastructure projects.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper served as legal counsel for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on what is today known as the “Halliburton Loophole,” a clause which exempts hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act. The Halliburton Loophole was slipped into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and became law under President George W. Bush.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A 2005 newsletter published by the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) credits Cooper specifically for his work in getting the clause inserted into the bill. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Cooper's concerns about potential EPA regulation of fracking — as championed by Democrats several years earlier — piqued the interest of the Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, as well as Joe Barton of Texas, the chairman of the subcommittee on air quality,” industry publication The Oil Daily furhter reported in December 2013. “Their mantra was 'Let's fix it, and let's fix it right.'”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a Truth in Testimony form Cooper submitted before testifying at a 2013 House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing, he also cited the central role he played in negotiating and writing the Energy Policy Acts of 2002 and 2003, both of which had Halliburton Loophole provisions. On that form, Cooper also listed his experience as an oil and gas industry attorney.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Practiced law, serving clients in oil and gas exploration, development, production, including natural gas gathering, transmission, and distribution, provided counsel in the development of litigation, acquisition, and divestment strategies, personnel policies, regulatory compliance, and long-range initiatives,” reads the form. “Conducted due diligence for oil and gas exploration companies for acquisitions, divestitures, and litigation. Supervised survey crews, independent contractor drilling crews, well stimulation, geophysical, and completion crews for oil and gas wells. Prepared budgets and managed expenditures of all funds for the execution of drilling programs.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper presently serves as staff director for the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and formerly was a lobbyist for the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG), American Petroleum Institute (API), and Southern Company.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CLNG, where Cooper worked for nearly a decade before passing through the reverse revolving door and returning to work for Congress, was created by the American Petroleum Institute. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Industry-Sponsored Junkets</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper's amicability toward the oil and gas industry was clear during his first stint working as a congressional staffer, before he became a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For example, he attended the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) 2004 meeting in Oklahoma City — on the IOGCC dime — while working for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to congressional travel disclosure records reviewed by DeSmog. Sponsors of that meeting included BP, Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, Dominion Energy, Kerr-McGee (now Anadarko Petroleum), Williams Energy, and others.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IOGCC, a congressionally authorized, interstate quasi-government agency whose members are oil and gas industry state regulators, lobbyists, and executives, played a central role in advocating for the Halliburton Loophole.  </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Thanks to the Halliburton Loophole, the oil and gas industry is the only industry in America that is allowed by EPA to inject known hazardous materials — unchecked — directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies,” Jennifer Krill, Earthworks executive director, told DeSmog.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a House Energy and Commerce staffer, Cooper traveled on numerous other industry-funded trips beyond IOGCC's 2004 meeting, according to congressional travel disclosure forms reviewed by DeSmog. Among the trips:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-A junket to the Alberta tar sands sponsored by Shell Oil to visit its Muskeg River site.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-A 2003 trip to discuss the Energy Policy Act of 2003 at a meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (which today sponsors the influential fracking front group, Energy in Depth). </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-An El Paso Corporation–funded 2002 paid speaking gig at the annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States (IPAMS, now the Western Energy Alliance, or WEA).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-A BP-sponsored speaking appearance in 2004 in which Cooper discussed energy policy, according to his disclosure form, but was listed by BP as an “industry speaker.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CEQ Climate Denial History Redux</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">George W. Bush's CEQ chief of staff Phillip Cooney also was a former API lobbyist-turned-CEQ staffer. During his tenure at the council, Cooney doctored scientific reports about climate change written by U.S. government agencies and then left to become a lobbyist for ExxonMobil. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">History could repeat itself, in a sense, if Cooper takes the helm at CEQ.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That's because the Trump White House CEQ, according to a recent story by Bloomberg, may ax climate change impacts from consideration in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental reviews, a goal of API and CLNG for the past several years. President Barack Obama's CEQ issued the guidance for government agenies to consider climate change in these reviews.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper has publicly supported cutting climate change out of the NEPA process, and according to his bio for a recent speech at a Natural Gas Roundtable, he presently acts as a NEPA senior policy advisor for his Committee on Natural Resources job.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Without boxing ourselves in [we plan to] look at the CEQ's guide on [greenhouse gases] as a first step” toward streamlining the NEPA process, Cooper told Inside EPA in December 2016. “We think it's an opportunity for us to correct a lot of wrongs, and that in and of itself should streamline the process.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some are concerned about such maneuvers espoused by Cooper, however.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The push for climate change's non-inclusion in NEPA appraisals “puts our country, our communities, and our people at great risk,” Paul Getsos, national coordinator for the April 29 People’s Climate Movement march, told Bloomberg. “It also sends a dangerous message to the world that the United States does not care about climate change or protecting front-line communities.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cooper did not respond to a request for comment for this story.</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>ctrpunch: rev of mccumber bk:
Millions of us are still threatened by asbestos in out homes, where we work. Most of us believe that using asbestos is now illegal. It isn’t. The authors write “Nobody is sure how many homes contain Zonolite. Estimates range from 15 million to 35 million. But according to the EPA and U.S. Justice Department’s tally of W.R. Grace invoices the company shipped billions of pounds of tainted ore to more than 750 processing plants throughout North America. Most of those companies produced attic insulation.”Many automobile brakes are made with asbestos. “About six million mechanics have been exposed to asbestos since 1940 those exposures are now resulting in 580 asbestos-related excess cancer deaths per year. Within 10 years, the expected rate of mesothelioma deaths alone will be 200 a year from exposure to brake dust.”And here’s a a big surprise. The Bush White House, through its Office of Management and Budget, blocked the EPA’s long-awaited declaration of a public health emergency in Libby in April 2002, and an accompanying warning to millions of citizens that their homes and businesses might contain Grace’s deadly asbestos-contaminated insulation. A drastically watered-down memo was finally made public. The authors’ also reveal the Bush White House’s successful campaign to cover up the asbestos problem in lower Manhattan in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The authors write ” Documents from the White House Counsel on Environmental Quality showed a repeated pattern of downplaying the hazard to health even when the sparse information available showed just the opposite to the extent of ordering headlines of government news releases changed completely so no threat or hazard was ever conveyed.” One asbestosis-stricken Libby resident said, “Twenty years from now, when those New Yorkers start falling over dead, some young government bureaucrat will get all choked up apologizing for what the EPA and others didn’t do.”Schneider and McCumber look at the ongoing debate on Capitol Hill over legislation to create a mechanism for resolving asbestos claims outside the judicial system. The authors show how one bill currently under consideration, proposed in 2003 by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, will prevent many current and future victims of asbestos from being eligible for compensation. They point out that jackals that infest the attorney profession are initiating class action litigation that offers victims small compensation while eliminated their rights to sue for future illnesses and wrong doings.

=CEQ shadow epa: On Global Warming<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office was behind a push to censor congressional testimony that global warming poses a danger to the public, according to Jason Burnett, a former associate deputy administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The vice president and the White House Office of Management and Budget heavily edited testimony last year by the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). "I read the testimony, checked with EPA scientists, and came to the conclusion that the draft testimony was fundamentally accurate as written," Burnett stated in a letter to Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. [1]</div>

yikes  9/14

Just over a month before the United Nations convenes on September 23 in New York City to discuss climate change and activists gather for a week of action, the Obama White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) argued it does not have to offer guidance to federal agencies it coordinates with to consider climate change impacts for energy decisions.

It came just a few weeks before a leaked draft copy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment said climate disruption could cause “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.” <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail1.com/t/t-l-jrdyxk-yuirlyty-jl/" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; font-weight: bold;">CLICK TO READ MORE</a>

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LCV endorse

Longtime adviser to President Obama on environmental and climate issues, Nancy Sutley announced plans to resign from her post at the White House on Tuesday.

Sutley will step down in February from her post as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which she has held since 2009.

As chair of environment council, Sutley spearheaded the administration's National Ocean Policy and contributed to Obama's climate agenda

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<div class="field-item odd" style=" text-align: left; width: 529.1875px; margin-bottom: 10px;">...Sutley helped establish "historic new fuel economy standards that will save consumers money, new national monuments that permanently protect sites unique to our country’s rich history and natural heritage, our first comprehensive National Ocean Policy, and our Climate Action Plan that will help leave our children a safer, healthier planet," Obama said in a statement.</div>

"Her efforts have made it clear that a healthy environment and a strong economy aren’t mutually exclusive – they can go hand in hand," he added.

The Natural Resources Defense Council praised Sutley on her leadership, calling her work on the administration's ocean policy "an important legacy for President Obama."

The White House has not named a replacement.

Sutley is the latest in a string of environmental officials to leave the administration. Early last month, Obama's climate and energy aide, Heather Zichal, left her post.

The Interior and Energy Departments have experienced a reshuffle of its upper brass since Obama began his second term....

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Bush was clueless, but Cheney -- to whom virtually all Bush era malevolence ultimately traces -- was not. He took the CEQ under his wing and made it his personal policy/propaganda shop, much like he did with the Office of Special Plans in the run up to the Iraq War. He used it to funnel favorable intelligence (read: bogus skeptic studies) up to the highest levels of gov't and out to the media, to interfere with scientific gov't reports, and to stymie executive rule-making. And of course Connaughton played along willingly.

As it happens, Connaughton's in the news again. On Wed., the Senate EPW Committee held a hearing on the abysmal EPA reaction to 9/11 air quality dangers. The EPA Inspector General issued a report (PDF) in 2003 revealing that the CEQ forced the EPA to tone down warnings about the air and reassure everyone it was safe. Connaughton testified at the hearing. Josh Marshall -- who has some video highlights from the testimony -- says that ...

... the result was such a tour de force of testimonial BS that we wanted to show you some of it. We see a lot of congressional testimony and thus a lot of non-denial-denying, obfuscation and generally bamboozling crap. But this performance stood out.

This guy really personifies the Bush era, with its fetid mix of mendacity, ideology, and incompetence. No doubt he'll be back in a cushy lobbying job before Bush's boxes are even cleared out of the White House.

<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/james-connaughton-the-bush-era-personified/">http://www.grist.org/article/james-connaughton-the-bush-era-personified/</a>

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gang of 8:

FirstEnergy Corp., based in Akron Ohio, spent $5.7 million lobbying, including $1.24 million in the first quarter of this year. Among its lobbyists are Martin Hall, former chief of staff for the Council on Environmental Quality and former staffer and deputy staff director for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. FirstEnergy also has hired five other firms to help in its lobbying efforts and has a PAC that has distributed nearly $1.2 million this election cycle to a range of members, including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio; Whitfield, who has been a vigorous defender of coal interests from his seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee; Democratic Reps. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania and Bob Latta of Ohio, also members of Energy and Commerce; Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, member of the Natural Resources Committee;  and Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

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alum:

CREW compiled a list of CEQ, OSTP and EPA officials appointed under President Bush, using

United States Government Manuals from 2001-2009. CREW then cross referenced that list with

the Senate Office of Public Record’s lobbying disclosures database. Google and Lexis-Nexis

also were utilized to further round out biographical information. While aiming to be exhaustive,

because information is not always readily available, CREW may not have identified every

official, uncovered every position held by former officials, or found complete biographical

information.

Key findings:

• 22 former officials with CEQ, OSTP, and EPA have gone onto lobbying or

government relations

• 14 of these former officials have been registered lobbyists

• 7 of these former officials work for companies or trade associations involved in

the energy production industry

• 3 of these former officials founded their own lobbying or government

relations firms

The Revolving Door

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

James L. Connaughton – James L. Connaughton served as President Bush’s chief

environmental advisor as chair of the CEQ from 2001 to 2009.5 He was an advocate of “new

environmentalism,” which replaced federal regulations with voluntary and incentive based

initiatives to encourage companies to curb pollution.6 Prior to joining the administration he was

partner and environmental counsel at the law firm of Sidley Austin Brown and Wood where he

fought to reduce environmental regulations for clients such as the Chemical Manufacturers

Association of America.7

After the administration ended in 2009, Mr. Connaughton joined Constellation Energy as

executive vice president for corporate affairs and environmental policy.8 In the newly created

position, Mr. Connaughton oversees all environmental and energy policy and government affairs

matters.9 Mr. Connaughton is not currently registered to lobby.

4Id.; Restoring Science to Rightful Place, Chattanooga Times Free Press, January 25, 2009. Additionally, CREW’s

research has supported this conclusion.

5 Constellation Energy Appoints James L. Connaughton as Executive Vice President, M2 Equity Bites, February 24,

2009; The United States Government Manual 2008-2009, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives.

6 Amanda Griscom Little, Earth Shakers: The Counter-Enviro Power List, Outside, May 2005.

7 Id.

8 M2 Equity Bites, Feb. 24, 2009.

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Philip Cooney – Philip Cooney was chief of staff for CEQ from 2001 until his abrupt departure

in 2005.10 Mr. Cooney resigned his position after reports surfaced that he edited several climate

change reports to water-down and cast doubts on the links between human activity and climate

change.11 Mr. Cooney, who has no science background, inserted numerous handwritten edits on

climate change reports, changing the meaning of key phrases and whole paragraphs in

government produced scientific research and reports, altering their conclusions.12 Mr. Cooney’s

tampering prompted the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate.13

The committee found the “Bush Administration [had] engaged in a systematic effort to

manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of

global warming.”14 The allegations prompted CREW’s original FOIA request in 2006.15 Prior

to joining the administration Mr. Cooney was a lobbyist and “climate team leader” for the

American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies on the behalf of the oil industry.16

After leaving the administration in 2005, Mr. Cooney joined Exxon-Mobil in an unknown

capacity. 17 Mr. Cooney is not currently registered to lobby.

Khary Cauthen – Khary Cauthen was chief of staff for CEQ from approximately 2005 to

2006.18

After leaving the administration in 2006, Mr. Cauthen became a registered lobbyist for the

American Petroleum Institute,19 a trade association representing companies in the oil and natural

gas industries.20

Martin Hall – Martin Hall was chief of staff for CEQ from 200621 through the end of the Bush

administration in 2009.22 Prior to joining the administration, Mr. Hall worked as an aide to

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee.23 Prior

to that, Mr. Hall was a registered lobbyist for Gulfstream Aircraft Corporation.24

After leaving the administration in 2009, Mr. Hall joined FirstEnergy, an electric utility company

based in Ohio,25 as vice president of energy policy, where he oversees and directs the company’s

Environmental Department.26 Mr. Hall is not currently registered to lobby.

9 Id.

10 Andrew C. Revkin, Editor of Climate Reports Resigns, New York Times, June 10, 2005.

11 Id.

12 Revkin, New York Times, Jun. 8, 2005.

13 Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Sciences, US Fed News,

December 10, 2007.

14 Id.

15 http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/CEQFOIA.pdf.

16 Revkin, New York Times, Jun. 8, 2005.

17 H. Josef Hebert, White House Official Singled Out For Editing Climate Change Reports to Work for Exxon

Mobil, Associated Press, June 14, 2005.

18 http://www.governmentdocs.org/FOIADocs/106.pdf; Interagency Committee on Ocean Science and Resource

Management Integration, Membership List, April 1, 2006; American Petroleum Institute Lobbying Report 2007,

Client: Self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Record.

19 American Petroleum Institute Lobbying Report 2007, Client: Self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public

Record.

20 http://www.api.org/aboutapi/.

21 Sen. Inhofe Aide to Become CEQ Chief of Staff, Sources Say, E&E News, May 31, 2006.

22 FirstEnergy Names Martin L. Hall Vice President, Energy Policy, PR Newswire, January 1, 2009.

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William Holbrook – William F. Holbrook served as director of communications for the CEQ

from May 2003 to May 2005.27

After leaving the administration in 2005, Mr. Holbrook became communications director for the

Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, then chaired by Senator James M. Inhofe

(R-OK).28 Later, Mr. Holbrook became the director of communications for the National

Petrochemical and Refinery Association (NPRA), a trade group advocating the importance of

petroleum based fuels and lubricants.29 It maintains a membership encompassing nearly every

large U.S. refinery and a political action committee (NPRA PAC) that has distributed at least

$40,000 to various political campaigns so far in the 2010 election cycle.30 Mr. Holbrook is not

currently registered to lobby.

Elizabeth Stolpe – Elizabeth Stolpe was the associate director for toxics and environmental

protection at CEQ from 200131 to 2006.32 Prior to joining the Bush administration, Ms. Stolpe

was an in-house lobbyist for oil conglomerate, Koch Industries.33

After leaving the administration in 2006, Ms. Stolpe joined Shell Oil, where she is a registered

lobbyist for the company.34

Christopher Scheve – Christopher Scheve was the associate director for congressional affairs at

CEQ from 2008 to 2009.35

After leaving the administration in 2009, Mr. Scheve joined the lobbying firm of Kelly,

Anderson and Associates as a senior advisor for environmental services.36 He is also founder

and managing partner of AquaTerra Strategies.37 According to its website, AquaTerra Strategies

is a “boutique government and public affairs firm,” listing lobbying as one of the firm’s

23 E&E News, May 31, 2006.

24 Gulfstream, Inc, Lobbying Report 1999, Client: self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Record.

25 http://www.firstenergycorp.com/corporate/Corporate_Profile/index.html.

26 PR Newswire, Jan. 1, 2009.

27 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-holbrook/10/a08/14a.

28 http://www.legistorm.com/person/William_F_Holbrook/7928.html.

29 http://www.npra.org/about/.

30 Id.; http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00415026&cycle=2010.

31 The United States Government Manual 2001-2002, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives.

32 Shell Oil Company, Lobbying Report 2006, Client: Self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Record.

33 Bob Williams and Kevin Bogardus, Koch’s Low Profile Belies Political Power, Center for Public Integrity, July

15, 2004; Koch Industries, Inc., Lobbying Report 1999, Client: Self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public

Record.

34 Shell Oil Company, Lobbying Report 2006, Client: Self, Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Record.

35 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-scheve/10/106/583.

36 Id.

37 Id.

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specialties.38 Nevertheless, Mr. Scheve is not currently registered to lobby, nor is AquaTerra a

registered lobbying firm.

Dana Perino – Dana Perino was the associate director of communications for CEQ from 200139

to 200540 when she joined the White House press department; in 2007, she became press

secretary.41

After the administration ended in 2009, Ms. Perino joined Burson-Marsteller, a public relations

and communications firm,42 as a chief issues counselor and advises clients in the health care,

energy and defense industries.43 Ms. Perino is not currently registered to lobby.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

Stanley Sokul – Stanley Sokul was the executive director for the president’s committee of

advisors on science and technology at OSTP from 2002 to 2009.44

After the administration ended in 2009, Mr. Sokul joined Exxon-Mobil as a corporate issues

advisor.45 Mr. Sokul is not currently registered to lobby.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Christine Todd Whitman – Christine Todd Whitman was the administrator of the EPA from

2001 through 2003.46

After leaving the administration in 2003, Ms. Todd Whitman founded the Whitman Strategy

Group, which offers environmental expertise and guidance at both the state and federal levels.47

The Whitman Group has represented companies such as FMC Corporation,48 a chemicals and

pesticides manufacturer;49 Chevron Environmental Management Company,50 a subsidiary of the

38 http://aquaterrastrategies.com/.

39 The United States Government Manual 2001-2002, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives.

40 http://www.bursonmarsteller.

com/About_Us/Regional_Leadership/Lists/RegionalsLeadership/DispForm.aspx?ID=44.

41 Arena Profile: Dana Perino, Politico, http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/dana_perino.html.

42 http://www.burson-marsteller.com/About_Us/Pages/About_Us.aspx.

43 http://www.bursonmarsteller.

com/About_Us/Regional_Leadership/Lists/RegionalsLeadership/DispForm.aspx?ID=44;

http://www.bursonmarsteller.

com/Innovation_and_insights/blogs_and_podcasts/BM_Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=75c7a224-05a3-

4f25-9ce5-2a90a7c0c761&ID=106 .

44 The United States Government Manual 2003-2004, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives,

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stan-sokul/7/9b8/3b7.

45 Id.

46 http://www.whitmanstrategygroup.com/ourteamctw2.html.

47 http://www.whitmanstrategygroup.com/.

48 The Whitman Strategy Group, Lobbying Report 2005, Client: FMC Corporation, Secretary of the Senate, Office

of Public Record.

49 http://www.fmc.com/.

50 The Whitman Strategy Group, Lobbying Report 2005, Client: Chevron Environmental Management, Secretary of

the Senate, Office of Public Record.

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oil company;51 and Locus Technologies,52 a computer technology company,53 which offers

environmental software solutions.54 Ms. Todd Whitman ceased lobbying for the firm in 2005.55

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