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</div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/01/25/trump-state-policy-network-summit-dominion-bradley-foundation-climate-denial"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/01/25/trump-state-policy-network-summit-dominion-bradley-foundation-climate-denial</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="print-link" /></font></p><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Last December groups promoting climate change denial sponsored a two-day conference which brought together energy executives and lobbyists with Trump administration officials.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/SPN%20Energy%20Summit%20December%2017.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">conference’s agenda</a>, which DeSmog has obtained exclusively, the participating energy and utility companies included<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Dominion Energy, General Electric, and Georgia Power. Officials from the Departments of Energy and the Interior were among the panelists</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event, billed as a “State Energy Policy Summit,” was organized by the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/thomas-jefferson-institute-public-policy" a="" powerful="" group="" of="" think="" tanks="" pushing="" states="" to="" adopt="" conservative="" policies="" both="" the="the" nbsp="nbsp"><span class="caps">SPN and its ally the </span></a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (<span class="caps">ALEC</span>) are funded by an array of corporations, right-wing groups, and wealthy conservative donors that include brothers Charles and David Koch.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conference, which took place from December 7-8, 2017 in Washington, D.C., was also sponsored by the <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Thomas Jefferson Institute </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and </span><a href="http://www.bradleyfdn.org/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none;">The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> — two groups that promote climate change denial — and the </span><a href="https://consumerenergyalliance.org/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none;">Consumer Energy Alliance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, an advocacy group working on behalf of the oil and gas industry.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">..doc]</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">obbying Opportunities</span></font></p><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conference placed in one room energy interests and the government representatives and agencies which they are currently lobbying.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first panel dealt with offshore energy development. It featured speakers from the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">National Ocean Industries Association,</span> International Association of Geophysical Contractors, and <b>National Ocean Policy Coalition</b> — three trade groups advancing the interests of the offshore and energy exploration industries. A fourth member of the panel was<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Tim Williams, deputy director of the office of external affairs in the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Department of the Interior. Williams, a former Republican operative who worked on the Trump campaign, was appointed to his position by Interior Secretary <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/ryan-zinke" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Zinke</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Keynote addresses by <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Representatives David Rouzer (R-<span class="caps">NC</span>) and<b> Bruce Westerman (R-<span class="caps">AR</span>) f</b>ollowed the panel.</span> Over his brief Congressional career, Westerman has received a total of <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00035527&cycle=CAREER&type=I" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$114,450 in campaign contributions</a> from the oil and gas industry, one of the top industries throwing support behind him. Rouzer, between 2011 and 2018, has netted <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/industries?cid=N00033527&cycle=CAREER" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$91,490 from the industry</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Congressional records indicate that the energy participants on the offshore panel are presently lobbying both the Interior Department and Congress. National Ocean Industries Association is
...on various matters concerning offshore energy, including the Outer Continental Shelf.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similarly, the International Association of Geophysical Contractors is <a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=D759ECBB-1A9A-46E6-80C4-AF7201D2AAA8&filingTypeID=78" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying</a> the Interior Department and the House of Representatives on “[I]ssues impacting offshore seismic activities.” It is also lobbying Congress on <span class="caps">H.R.</span> 3131, or the <span class="caps">SEA</span> Act (Streamlining Environmental Approvals Act), which <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3133?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+3133%22%5D%7D&r=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Representative Rouzer has co-sponsor</a><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3133?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+3133%22%5D%7D&r=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ed</a>. The bill seeks to ease environmental approval processes for offshore exploration in ways that amend current protections for endangered marine mammal habitats.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><span class="caps">HBW</span> Resources, the lobbying firm behind the Consumer Energy Alliance,</b> one of the conference’s sponsors, is currently <a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=4FC3EA17-75D5-4945-8565-4A76DAF2616B&filingTypeID=78" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying</a> the House of Representatives on behalf of the National Ocean Policy Coalition. </font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">nyer 2016</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Many of Trump’s transition-team members are the corporate insiders he vowed to disempower. On Friday, Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, the new transition-team chair, announced that Marc Short, who until recently ran Freedom Partners, the Kochs’ political-donors group, would serve as a “senior adviser.” The influence of the Kochs and their allies is particularly clear in the areas of energy and the environment. The few remarks Trump made on these issues during the campaign reflected the fondest hopes of the oil, gas, and coal producers. He vowed to withdraw from the international climate treaty negotiated last year in Paris, remove regulations that curb carbon emissions, legalize oil drilling and mining on federal lands and in seas, approve the Keystone XL pipeline, and weaken the Environmental Protection Agency.
...For policy and personnel advice regarding the Department of Energy, Trump is relying on<b> Michael McKenna, the president of the lobbying firm MWR Strategies</b>. McKenna’s clients include Koch Companies Public Sector, a division of Koch Industries. According to Politico, McKenna also has ties to the American Energy Alliance and its affiliate, the Institute for Energy Research. These nonprofit groups purport to be grassroots organizations, but they run ads advocating corporate-friendly energy policies, without disclosing their financial backers. In 2012, Freedom Partners gave $1.5 million to the American Energy Alliance.</font><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Michael Catanzaro, a partner at the lobbying firm CGCN Group, is the head of Trump’s energy transition team, and has been mentioned as a possible energy czar. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among his clients are Koch Industries and Devon Energy Corporation, a gas-and-oil company that has made a fortune from vertical drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Another widely discussed candidate is Harold Hamm, the billionaire founder of the shale-oil company Continental Resources, who is a major contributor to the Kochs’ fund-raising network. Wenona Hauter, of Food and Water Watch, says that Hamm has “done all he can to subvert the existing rules and regulations.”</span></font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Myron Ebell, an outspoken climate-change skeptic, heads Trump’s transition team for the E.P.A.</b> Ebell runs the energy-and-environmental program at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an anti-regulatory Washington think tank that hides its sources of financial support but has been funded by fossil-fuel companies, including Exxon-Mobil and Koch Industries. </font></p><p class="paywall" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TNYAdobeCaslonPro, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Schnare, a self-described “free-market environmentalist” who has accused the E.P.A. of having “blood on its hands,” is a member of the E.P.A. working group</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Schnare is the director of the Center for Energy and the Environment at the Thomas Jefferson Institute, part of a nationwide consortium of anti-government, pro-industry think tanks. He is also the general counsel at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, which has received funding from coal companies. In 2011, Schnare started hounding the climate scientist Michael Mann, who had been a professor at the University of Virginia, by filing public-records requests demanding to see his unpublished research and his private e-mails. The legal wrangling tied up Mann’s work until 2014, when the Virginia Supreme Court ordered Schnare to desist. The Union of Concerned Scientists has described these actions against climate scientists as “harassmen
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