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</div><div>After General Pruitt's successful January 2013 Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels in Oklahoma City, the Mason Law Economics</div><div>Center started making plans to launch an initiative for Energy and the Environment.</div><div>
</div><div> Public Policy conference on Energy and the Environment at the</div><div>George Mason Law School in Arlington Virginia on Monday, April 7th, 2014.</div><div>
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</div><div>Meeting request with Attorney General Pruitt</div><div>andrew p miller to: Sheila Harder 04f20i20??2 {39:33 AM</div><div>Go: .-</div><div>
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</div><div>Sheila,</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you for getting back to me. The matter 1 would iike to discuss with the General and</div><div>is not client_driven. instead it involves how the General and his colleagues might have</div><div>an even greater impact on national public policy. The concept I have in mind builds on the</div><div>momentum created by the States? leadership in challenging Obamacare, however the Supreme</div><div>Court may actually decide that case.</div><div>
</div><div>The touchstone of this initiative would be to organize the States to resist federal "overreach?</div><div>whenever it occurs. i am not really focusing on "overreach" with respect to an issue involving a</div><div>single State. instead where the effort i envision would have the greatest impact is on subjects</div><div>of national importance to federalism.</div><div>
</div><div>One of the controversies, which probably is a priority concern of the General, is current</div><div>launch of a regulatory foray with respect to fracking. The rules just proposed represent Lisa</div><div>Jackson?s opening salvo; should Obama be re?elected, there will be all hell to pay. Sound public</div><div>policy dictates that fracking be the subject of state not federal regulation, as it has been in the</div><div>past. The practice has now spread over so many States that the question of whether the States</div><div>are to continue in their oversight role is squarely on the table.</div><div>
</div><div>i could go on, but regard the General as the AG best suited to take the lead on this question</div><div>of federalism, as well as on some others which may arise. My flight arrives in Chicago at 3:25</div><div>PM. on Sunday; 1 depart on 3:40 PM. or: Tuesday. know not the General?s schedule. if</div><div>convenient, i would be pleased to have dinner with him and Sunday evening. Should</div><div>this not work, please suggest an alternative. i look forward to hearing from you.</div><div>
</div><div>Andy</div><div>
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</div><div>General,</div><div>
</div><div>As always, enjoyed being and working with you in Dc the end of last week. i am in the</div><div>process of obtaining a current list of NAAG's Executive Committee and will call you as such as I</div><div>receive it, Subsequent to Tim's fundraiser, Rod and I had an opportunity to further discuss your</div><div>"Legal Summit on Energy." The more we looked at the calendar, the more it seemed to Us that</div><div>
</div><div>the dates of November 15 45'" work best Our reasoning: Thanksgiving week we agreed at our</div><div>Friday breakfast was cut; the last week of November was in conflict with and</div><div>any dates in December would be too late.</div><div>
</div><div>As to the program itself, the following suggestions are respectfully laid on the table:</div><div>
</div><div>1. In the morning session, the agenda should include three nationally recognized</div><div>
</div><div>speakers'</div><div>is) one to talk about the status of existing problem projects, eg,, Keystone XL</div><div>pipeline, Spruce Mine, Pebble Mine and Eagle Mine; lb) another to give a profile cl</div><div>EPA's known and prospective regulatory initiatives; and (ci a third to describe the</div><div>litigation over energy issues in which the States are then, or are soon in be,</div><div>participating These speakers need to be identified and invited soon to ensure their</div><div>availability,</div><div>
</div><div>2. addition a facilitator. with Significant experience in energy and natural resource</div><div>
</div><div>issues, ought to be selected to guide an afternoon roundtable, as a consequence of</div><div>
</div><div>which a comprehensive state legal strategy on such issues would be developed and</div><div>
</div><div>consensus sought.</div><div>
</div><div>Last week we talked of creating a working group to help in the development of the summit</div><div>and relieve folks on the ground, outside of your Office staff, of some of the administrative</div><div>burden A5 With everything else, i fully appreciate that you Will be making the decision as to</div><div>who the group's members are. My View IS that those copied on this er mall would he a good</div><div>start, but I understand you Will certainly Wish to add others To get this initiative all the</div><div>ground, 1 recommend that we have a conference (call later this week at a date and time to be</div><div>set at your convenience,</div><div>
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</div><div>Energy Summit - November 15th</div><div>andrew miller to: Scott Pruitt wipe/2012 06:16 PM</div><div>Cc: Patrick.Wyrick, Moiissahouston, nnbutler, rhaetie</div><div>
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</div><div>General Pruitt,</div><div>
</div><div>As you are aware, i have been trying to reach you about my meeting with General Conway in</div><div>DC last Thursday. talk to Melissa yesterday, who advised that you would return to your office</div><div>tomorrow. Hopefully we can speak then. </div><div>
</div><div>In the meantime, i would like to lay another matter on the table which hope can be</div><div>
</div><div>addressed in the course of our call:</div><div>1. I believe it would constitute a serious mistake to have the Energy Summit sponsored</div><div>by NAAG. As i mentioned to your staff, were NAAG involved, the entire mission of the</div><div>Summit would be thwarted by General Madigan?s, for example, insisting that pro-industry</div><div>speakers be offset by Sierra Club acolytes. Indeed General Gansler would in all likelihood</div><div>try to hijack your Summit. At best you would be left to preside over a debate, rather than</div><div>a call to arms.</div><div>2. There is no need for participation in order to achieve a semblance of</div><div>bi?partisanship. i have reason to believe that, if invited by you, these Democratic </div><div>would participate: Conway, McDaniel and Phillips. Their presence would be sufficient to</div><div>squelch any criticism of the Summit?s being a partisan jihad.</div><div>3. When then General Pryor created RAGA, his aim was to organize a Republican strike</div><div>force which would effectively impact public policy In this role, should it pick up some</div><div>support from the other party so much the better. That said, its mission cannot be diluted</div><div>by entanglement with NAAG. in the energy and natural resources context, this strike force</div><div>ought to take the form of a national state AG litigation team to challenge overreach.</div><div>At the Summit I would hope a consensus could be reached on the team?s agenda so that,</div><div>like the dalmatian at the proverbial firehouse, it could move out smartly when the alarm</div><div>sounded.</div><div>
</div><div>On our last conference cali over a week ago, the issue of what might be the agenda of a</div><div>NAAG Midwest Event/Sinner was discussed by those copied on this e?rnaii. i have since</div><div>given further thought to that question and offer the following. i conclude that a program</div><div>focused on the need for ?infrastructure? improvements would be sued received:</div><div>
</div><div>1. Within the last few days, I met a businessman who owns several large grain farms</div><div>in illinois. He was complaining about the fact that American Gulf Coast and East Coast</div><div>ports had insufficient depth to handle the mega sized container ships which soon</div><div>be able to traverse tire newiy expanded fie-name Canai. This is a problem waists faces </div><div>mid seestern grain farmers; in the export trades due to tneir foreign: competitors;</div><div>earring deeper ports. its resoiution said reunite tire of eats from state</div><div>state-iaoiders.</div><div>
</div><div>2. The reliability at the electric grid is a factor, among others, for EPA to consider in</div><div>issuing regulatiens. The primary fer ensuring reliability, heweyer, rests</div><div>elsewhere with. FERC and ERCC. One at numereus issues is the absence of</div><div>transmission where needed to transport, for instance, turbine? generated wind</div><div>power from remote areas. When the ecanemy rebeunds, this challenge will become</div><div>even more daunting and needs to be better understood by the States.</div><div>3. A not dissimilar issue relates to pipelines for natural gas produced by means of the</div><div>fracking process. This technique has greatly increased the supply of gas but. if it cannet</div><div>be transparted! it will not be used. Questions of federal vs. state contrai'over pipeline</div><div>permitting should be examined with a View tn avoiding unnecessary conflict between</div><div>competing regulatory regimes. Offices of Attorneys General can strive to make this</div><div>process run more efficiently.</div><div>4. An increasing economic problem is the effect of continual draught in the Mid -</div><div>Weston barge traffic which is, of course, a major means cf transport for heavy cargo</div><div>along the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers. There is little one can de about the</div><div>draft of barges and not much about the river bed, except in spot locations. instead the</div><div>issue is about how the Corps of Engineers can best maintain adequate water flows.</div><div>
</div><div>. Again, this is a cantroversy which deserves further airing among both and staff in</div><div>order to facilitate its less contentious resolutien.</div><div>
</div><div>General, 1 am sure you will have additional issues to consider for the Mid? West</div><div>Event/Dinner. Indeed, you may wish to delete one or more of these suggestions. in any event,</div><div>I trust that you will find the foregoing to be a useful starting point in framing the agenda.</div><div>
</div><div>All the best!</div><div>
</div><div>Andy</div><div>
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</div><div>Mefissa,</div><div>
</div><div>In of Rod's e--man, wiH be avaflable tomorrow mormng (Wednesday) for a conierence</div><div>call at anytime convenient to the others. As is custom, Rod wiu bg glad set it up. I look</div><div>forward to discussmg the various ISSUES confronting us and to deciding at least Sqme onhem.</div><div>
</div><div>A</div><div>As 1 mentioned on Seplember 14 ,durmg out first conferente call a'mosl three weeks ago,</div><div>tlme is a|ways the enemy in these matters</div><div>
</div><div>Andy</div><div>
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</div><div>General Pruitt,</div><div>
</div><div>This is to confirm that General Conway’s schedule is clear for December 3% and have</div><div>asked Susan Britten, his Executive Assistant, to out a hold on these dates. As we discussed,</div><div>however, Jack needs to hear from Joe Crase. Susan is not aware at this point of Jack?s getting</div><div>any call from Joe. Please advise as to where matters stand with respect to closing this loop.</div><div>
</div><div>Since December schedules wiil begin to fill up, in order to maximize the attendance of </div><div>(and, if an A6 already has made another commitment which cannot be changed, of his or her</div><div>chief deputy or the equivalent), 5 suggest that a ?save the date letter? signed by you be send by</div><div>the first of next week to the following </div><div>
</div><div>With a few exceptions each of these States has mining operations and all have energy issues.</div><div>Moreover, the of every State listed should be sympathetic to our cause.</div><div>
</div><div>In regard to the agenda for December as Patrick and Melissa know, our tentative plan,</div><div>subject to your approval, is to have the first session devoted to "case studies? in which a</div><div>number of corporations subject to EPA overreach will explain their challenges. have already</div><div>signed up my client, TransCanada, to make a presentation on Keystone and am in the process</div><div>of getting Pebble Partnership to do the same on the Pebble mine and Arch Coal on its Spruce</div><div>mine. Red is arranging for the Southern Company? to present on Alabama Power. Final Iv, i are</div><div>talking with ANGA about having one of its members describe the tracking controversies in</div><div>either Texas or Wyoming.</div><div>
</div><div>Attached please find the latest version of tienry?s budget which i trust that will be</div><div>willing to fund in part. Rod and i are seeking to have others contribute as welt. Our initiative</div><div>has the prospect of being a great success. i took forward to working easily with you and your</div><div>staff in order to see that are aeeonsa-iish the mission in the days ahead.</div><div>
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</div><div>The following is a list of questions which might be addressed in the Summit?s afternoon</div><div>session titled: ?Convocation implementing Mechanics.? i am sure there are questions which</div><div>should be added to this list. Also the order in which the questions are addressed may require</div><div>adjustment. Once the list has been finalized, it should serve as the guide for Jonathan Adler in</div><div>his facilitation of the discussion among the Attorneys General and deputies.</div><div>
</div><div>1. How many States, represented in this room, have taken the lead in the past three</div><div>years, or are now taking the lead or are contemplating taking the lead, in the preparation</div><div>and filing of multi?state Comments attacking overreach on federalism grounds?</div><div>
</div><div>2. How many States during the period cited, have prepared and filed, or are now in the</div><div>process of filing, or are contemplating preparing and filing, similar Comments on their</div><div>own?</div><div>
</div><div>3. How many States in the past three years have been or are currently in litigation, or</div><div>are contemplating litigation, on their own or with others, over issues of overreach</div><div>on federalism grounds?</div><div>
</div><div>4. When your State has sought the assistance of other States, how have you gone</div><div>about seeking help? Directly? Through Both?</div><div>
</div><div>5. How would you rate your success in obtaining the sought for assistance? Do you</div><div>believe the process could be improved as to increase the number of States participating</div><div>so as to advance your State?s interests?</div><div>
</div><div>6. What do ypu think of establishing a process for solicitation of state assistance under</div><div>the umbrella of an informal coalition called "American States United? </div><div>
</div><div>7. Would it be useful for ASU to designate an Executive Director who could receive</div><div>requests for help from ASU member States, by way of Comments, intervention or amicus</div><div>filing, and communicate such requests to all other member States?</div><div>
</div><div>8. How should the Executive Director be chosen? Should this not be</div><div>accomplished through consultation among, and majority irate of, the Attorneys General of</div><div>A50 member States?</div><div>
</div><div>9. Should a job description for the Executive Director be prepared by a volunteer </div><div>office, represented in the ream, and circulated for approval by the of ASU member</div><div>States? is there an A6 willing to undertake this task?</div><div>
</div><div>10, Since a joint effort requires a lead State, how should such leads be selected? Should</div><div>not the Executive {Director at the request of an ASU member State set up a conference call</div><div>at all member States, and have those States on the call, with an interest in the subject</div><div>matter, choose a lead by majority vote?</div><div>
</div><div>119 What other steps designed to strengthen the state ferces ef federalism do you</div><div>suggest?</div><div>
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</div><div>be the ASU's Executive Director, the General might offer his services in ihat role and General</div><div>Conway could then second the idea. This sessiun should last oniy as iong as necessary to</div><div>establish ASU's proxocol for respanse whenever there may arise an issue of EPA's uverreach on</div><div>federa'ism grounds.</div><div>
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</div><div>lam de'ightEd that the SavmheADate notices have gone out. It would be very helpfm if you</div><div>could forward to Henry, Red and me, a copy of the list oflhose receiving the notices, for our</div><div>ease of reference in the days ahead Alsa please zdwse as to whom we should send coples of</div><div>our emails when we communicate with General Pruitt's office. For example, now that Tom</div><div>Bates is on board, I assume (hat he shou'd be added. to promote please</div><div>copy the three of us here on all communicatlon to DC. hanks.</div><div>
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</div><div>Subject: RE: Energy Summit</div><div>
</div><div>Henry Melissa,</div><div>
</div><div>The General and 1 Spoke with Paul Seby this morning about presenting at the summit on the sue and settle issue.</div><div>As you know Paul has been very helpful to us in this area and he said he would be happy to provide a</div><div>sponsorship. Paul's email is paul.seby@moyewhite.com. His number is 303?292?7934. On another note, the</div><div>General asked me to touch base to make sure we are monitoring the level of participation at the AG level. He's</div><div>heard some concerns about the compressed time frame. UNH</div><div>
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</div><div>Henry  Butler RE: Energy Summit </div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler</div><div>'Sarah Lenti', mourada@cleancoalusaora</div><div>
</div><div>Principal Name:</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</div><div>Business Or Interest:</div><div>Provide quality research, info about importance of coal-fired electricity and related economic, environmental and energy issues.</div><div>Lobbying Interests:</div><div>Any state activity that could negatively impact coal-fired generation and/or increase cost of electricity for Wisconsin citizens and businesses. Primary issues: carbon taxes, global climate debate, electric utility restructuring, mercury, and ozone transport, hazardous air pollutants, regional transport, criteria pollutants (air). CEED will seek sound science and economic reality on energy and environmental issues. Regional haze, visibility, PM2.5, water issues relevant to electric utilities.</div><div>CEO Name:</div><div>Stephen L Miller</div><div>Title:</div><div>Vice President - Midwest Region</div><div>Contact Name:</div><div>Mark Ourada</div><div>Address:</div><div>1110 Innsbrook Lane</div><div>City, State, Zip:</div><div>Buffalo, MN 55313</div><div>Phone:</div><div>(703) 302-1213</div><div>E-mail:</div><div>mourada@cleancoalusa.org</div><div>Web Site:</div><div>http://www.cleancoalusa.org</div><div>[[</div><div> </div><div>
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</div><div>Lyndon Taylor, of General Counsel, is available at 3:45pm on Wednesday to meet with Butler.</div><div>Will that work?</div><div>
</div><div>Thank youl</div><div>
</div><div>Sheila</div><div>
</div><div>From: Harder, Sheila</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Monday, November 32; 2012 11:05 AM</div><div>To: 'Melissa.Houston@oag.ok.gov?</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Follow?up</div><div>
</div><div>l?li Melissal</div><div>
</div><div>Are you teferring to Blu Hulsey? If so, his emall is BluHulsey@contres.com.</div><div>
</div><div>have a request in to Lyndon Taylor about meeting on Wednesday with Henry Butler; Executive Director</div><div>of the Law and Economy center at George Mason University. let you know when he responds.</div><div>
</div><div>Allen Wright is out of the office all day on November 1:11:h and will not be available.</div><div>Hope you are doing well!</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>
</div><div>Sheila Harder</div><div>Executive Assistant to William F. Whitsitt, thi).</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>
</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue. Suite 960</div><div>leahoma City, 73302</div><div>
</div><div>495 228-8482 {Direct</div><div>Shelia.barder@dvo.com</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Harder, Shelia to: iti1212012t2214 PM </div><div>
</div><div>224330?0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>From: Harder, Sheila </div><div>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 11:55 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry N. Butler (hnbutler@gmu.edu)</div><div>Cc: Harder, Sheila</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: George Mason University Contribution</div><div>Good morning, Mr. Butler,</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Whitsitt requested that I follow up with you in regards to 3 $10,000.00 contribution to the Law Economics Center</div><div>at the George Mason University School of Law. Will you please send me an invoice, along with your tax ID number?</div><div>Upon receiving your request, I will process the invoice as soon as. possible. </div><div>
</div><div>Have a wonderful holiday season!</div><div>
</div><div>Wa rm rega rds,</div><div>
</div><div>Sheila Harder </div><div>Executive Assistant to William F. Whitsitt, </div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102</div><div>405 228 8482 Direct</div><div>Sheila.harder@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>devon</div><div>
</div><div>I will contact him today</div><div>
</div><div>N. Butler? wrote: </div><div>
</div><div>To: "Sarah Lenti" ?Melissa McLawhorn Houston?</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>From: "Henry N. Butler" </div><div>
</div><div>Date: 01/03/2013 </div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Harry Ng</div><div>
</div><div>Harry has informed me that API will not be participating in the panels. They don?t want it getting back to</div><div>EPA in DC that they are involved. However, he and Ben Norris will be providing assistance to the panels.</div><div>Best,</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Director, Law and Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler?gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
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</div><div>From: Sarah Lenti </div><div>Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:57:59 ?0500</div><div>
</div><div>To: </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: </div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Harry Ng</div><div>
</div><div>Hey, Melissa Harry Ng from API was the gentleman who called me today. He is General Counsel and</div><div>his number was 202?682?8000.</div><div>Hope you have better luck!</div><div>
</div><div>Sarah Lenti</div><div>202-557?5461</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:21 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Melissa McLawhorn Houston</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Sarah Lenti</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Harry Ng</div><div>
</div><div>Melissa,</div><div>
</div><div>Not sure if that is necessary. Marty Durbin and Harry reached decision after weighing risks to the efforts</div><div>to work with EPA and Dems on the Hill. Harry is going to provide a lot of help to the panels.</div><div>
</div><div>We?re in good shape with the panels.</div><div>Need to continue progress on AC attendance.</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Director, Law and Economics Center</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>hnbutlerfc?gmuedu</div><div>
</div><div>703-993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224-330?0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>. .9 . ., </div><div>
</div><div>From: Melissa.Houston@Loag.ok.gov</div><div>Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:08:50 -0600</div><div>
</div><div>To: </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Sarah Lenti - </div><div>Subject: Re: Harry Ng</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: "Henry N. Butler" </div><div>To; Melissa.Houston?oaq.ok.gg,</div><div>
</div><div>Co: 'Sarah Lenti - personal' </div><div>Date: 08:36 AM</div><div>Subject: Inhofe</div><div>
</div><div>Sent by: hnbutler@gmuledu</div><div>
</div><div>-.- umwgw: .. . . 4 </div><div>
</div><div>Hi Melissa,</div><div>
</div><div>I understand that the Senate will not be in session on January 16-17.</div><div>Can we confirm lnofe?</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Best,</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry' N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Director, Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive< o:p></div><div>
</div><div>hnbutlengmuedu</div><div>703-993-8644</div><div>
</div><div>(personal)</div><div>
</div><div>.x . .. 3 an.? .n Law. -</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:23 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Melissa McLawhorn Houston</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Sarah Lenti</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Inhofe</div><div>
</div><div>Melissa,</div><div>
</div><div>Bummer!</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Director, Law and Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>hnbutler?amuedu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224?330?0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>From: </div><div>Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:17:05 -0600</div><div>T0: Henry N. Butler</div><div>Cc: ?Sarah Lenti - </div><div>Subject: Re: Inhofe</div><div>
</div><div>We can not. He emailed me today. I am working on Plan B. Will keep you posted.</div><div>
</div><div>Melissa lVchawhorn Houston</div><div>
</div><div>Chief of Staff</div><div>
</div><div>Assistant Attorney General</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt</div><div>313 NE 2?lst Street</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>
</div><div>Phone (405) 522-4422</div><div>melissa.houstom?dloaookoov</div><div>
</div><div>armhmun my? w??y . 4.- </div><div>
</div><div>From: Mtz3@qmu.edu [mailtozifolt23@qmu.edul</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:35 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Melissa.Houston@oaci.ok.qg</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler; Hastie, Roderick</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Thoughts on Inviting New Mexico to the Summit?</div><div>
</div><div>Melissa,</div><div>
</div><div>We were discussing today the possibility of adding New Mexico to the list of states invited to send an AG representative to the</div><div>Summit. Has New Mexico been involved in any federalism-related energy litigation, or would they be otherwise appropriate to</div><div>inv?e?</div><div>
</div><div>AG Gary King has been a good friend to the Mason AGEP and I would anticipate we could find someone from the NM of?ce,</div><div>even on this short notice. Let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks in advance!</div><div>
</div><div>Best,</div><div>on</div><div>
</div><div>Jonathan R. Foltz</div><div>
</div><div>Manager, Attorneys General Education Program and</div><div>Congressional Civil Justice Caucus Academy</div><div>
</div><div>Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>ifoltz3@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703.993.9964</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler [mailtozhnbutler@gmu.edu]</div><div>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:53 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: 'Paul Seby'</div><div>Subject: RE: Mason AGEP Oklahoma FOSSIL FUEL Summit WORKING AGENDA </div><div>
</div><div>Paul,</div><div>
</div><div>Please send me the contract information for these folks:</div><div>
</div><div>The Coal Industry</div><div>Paul M. Seby, Moye White, Denver, Colorado (Moderator) Karl R. Moor, Senior Vice</div><div>
</div><div>President and Chief Environmental Counsel, Southern Company Jacob A. Williams </div><div>Vice President, Generation Development, Peabody Energy Steve Thompson, Executive</div><div>Director, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Utility OperatOr, TBD</div><div>
</div><div>Do we still need another participant, or is that the spot taken by Karl?</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George University Foundation Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law </div><div>Economics Center George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 2220l</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224?330?0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>From: Harder, Sheila [mailtozSheila.Harder@dvn.com]</div><div>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 2:20 PM</div><div>To: Jonathan Foltz; Whitsitt, Bill</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler</div><div>Subject: RE: Registration Reminder for General Pruitt's Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels</div><div>
</div><div>Hi Jon,</div><div>
</div><div>i registered Bill Whitsitt for General Pruitt's Summit on Federaiism and the Future of Fossil Fuels on December </div><div>Below is the registration confirmation number.</div><div>
</div><div>Please let me know if! can be of further service.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>
</div><div>Sheila Harder</div><div>Executive Assistant to William F. Whitsitt, </div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102</div><div>405 228-8482 Direct</div><div>Sheila.harder@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>. it </div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Jonathan Foltz </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:52 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Whitsitt, Bill</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Registration Confirmation AGEP Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels</div><div>1</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 6:32 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: rhastie@hunton.com; iha@case.edu; Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: meiissa.houston@oao.ok.qov; tom.bates@oaq.ok.qov</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Fw: URGENT: Request for Conference Call to Discuss Goals for the AG Strategy Sessions</div><div>
</div><div>Henry/Rod/Jonathan:</div><div>A Conference Call has been scheduled for Friday, January 11, 2013, at 3:00 PM CST.</div><div>
</div><div>Henry has advised that he may or may not be able to participate, but that it is important that the call still take place in</div><div>order to bring Jonathan up to speed. He believes the other participants will be able to do that even if he is not involved.</div><div>
</div><div>The Dial?in Number and the Access Codes for the Conference Call are as follows:</div><div>
</div><div>Dial-In Number: 605-475-4800</div><div>Host (General Pruitt, Melissa, Tom) Access Code: 103063?</div><div>Participant (Henry, Rod. Jonathan) Access Code: 1030632#</div><div>
</div><div>Once you dial the above-referenced Dial-In number, you will be prompted to enter the appropriate Access Code.</div><div>If you have any questions, please let me know.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks! -Rhonda</div><div>
</div><div>Month L. Gaffer</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Office of Attorney General</div><div>313 NE 21st Street</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>405.522.4391</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>   </div><div>
</div><div>Dear Bill:</div><div>
</div><div>Your registration has been confirmed. Please save this email for future reference.</div><div>
</div><div>Event: AGEP Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels</div><div>Attending: Bill Whitsitt</div><div>
</div><div>Time: 2:00 PM</div><div>
</div><div>Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013</div><div>
</div><div>Confirmation number: </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>i</div><div>
</div><div>Registration Information</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>   </div><div>
</div><div>Bill Whitsitt Event Registration</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>To view or modify your online registration, Click here. You will be asked to enter the confirmation</div><div>numbEr shown above.</div><div>
</div><div>Hairling'tr??ble with the link?</div><div>Cepy and paste the address listed below into your web browser:</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 12:47 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Whitsitt, Bill</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Registration Reminder for General Pruitt's Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels</div><div>
</div><div>r. Wh itsitt,</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you again for your willingness to participate in General Pruitt's Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels, on</div><div>Jan. 16 17 in Oklahoma City. We are excited about your participation in the following panel on Jan. 16:</div><div>
</div><div>5:00 6:30 The Oil and Gas Industry Regulatory Challenges to Federalism</div><div>The Honorable Mark Shurtleff, Troutman Sanders, Washington (Moderator)</div><div>William F. Whitsitt, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>Hydraulic fracturing attorney, TBD</div><div>Richard 0. Faulk, Gardere Wynne Sewell Houston</div><div>Christopher J. Dodson, Deputy General Counsel Americas, ConocoPhillips</div><div>Peter Kruselnicki, Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, TransCanada</div><div>
</div><div>Could you please complete our online registration at your earliest convenience? This will ensure we have your contact and</div><div>lodging information. Please use the following link:</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:01 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: 'Paul Seby?</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler; 'Robert Paduchik'; ?Mark Ourada'; Karl R. Moor; sumitche@southernco.com</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: General Pruitt's Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels INFORMATION REQUEST</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Paul,</div><div>An updated agenda is attached.</div><div>I see that Bob, Mark, Randy Eminger, and you have registered for Summit.</div><div>
</div><div>Please have Jacob Williams and Steve Thompson register for the Summit We need that information for name tags,</div><div>hotel room block, program, etc.</div><div>
</div><div>All Attendees must pre-register online. Please go to: </div><div>
</div><div>I hope you have been in touch with Karl. He needs to register as well. I?m cc?ing him on this message.</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Best,</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N, Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and</div><div>Executive Director, Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>GMU Foundation Professor of Law</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Director, Law Economics Center George Mason University School of Law</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>
</div><div>703.993.8644 (direct)</div><div>
</div><div>224.330.0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>
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</div><div>From: Mitchell, Susan Camille </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:53 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler; 'Paul Seby'</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: 'Robert Paduchik?; 'Mark Ourada'; Karl R. Moor</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: General Pruitt's Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels</div><div>INFORMATION REQUEST</div><div>
</div><div>All,</div><div>FYI I just registered Karl Moor for the Summit.</div><div>Regards,</div><div>
</div><div>Susan Mitchell</div><div>
</div><div>andrewpmiller@verizon. net</div><div>1/11/2013 9:14:39 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: carlos. muniz@myfloridalegal.com</div><div>CC:</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Fossil Fuels Summit --January leth -- 17th; Dinner -- January 15th at 7:30 P.M.</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Assistant General.</div><div>
</div><div>I am now told by George Mason that you are planning to attend the Fossil Fuels</div><div>Summit on January 16th 7 l7th. Thus. you may find it convenient to arrive in</div><div>Oklahoma City late afternoon on Tuesday, January lSth. If so, I wish to invite</div><div>you to a private dinner that evening at 7:30 P.M. at the Skirvin Hotel.</div><div>
</div><div>Joining us will be Peter Kruselnicki, Vice 7 President for Stakeholder</div><div>Relations at TransCanada. His company has a vital interest in gaining approval</div><div>for completion of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Up to this point.</div><div>as you are aware, TransCanada has unfortunately been rebuffed by the</div><div>Administration.</div><div>
</div><div>On Wednesday afternoon Peter is to appear on a panel of the Fossil Fuels</div><div>Summit. At dinner on Tuesday. however, you will have an uninterrupted</div><div>opportunity to hear a status report from Peter on what looms ahead. Most</div><div>importantly you will have a chance to ask questions about the project and</div><div>obtain authoritative answers.</div><div>
</div><div>Should you be able to arrange your travel schedule accordingly, Peter and I</div><div>would very much appreciate your attendance. The purpose of this meeting is</div><div>informational and it is understood, of course, that your presence will not bind</div><div>your State to take any course of action. Please reply, if you would, by phone</div><div>or e--mail, as indicated below by noon on Friday.</div><div>
</div><div>Andy Miller</div><div>Andrew P. Miller</div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC 20007</div><div>
</div><div>MASON AGEP</div><div>
</div><div>SUMMIT ON FEDERALISM</div><div>AND THE FUTURE</div><div>OF FOSSIL FUELS</div><div>CONVENED BY</div><div>THE HONORABLE E. SCOTT PRUITT</div><div>ATTORNEY GENERAL OF OKLAHOMA</div><div>
</div><div>January 16â€“17, 2013</div><div>The Skirvin Hilton</div><div>Oklahoma City</div><div>
</div><div> SUM MIT ON FEDERALISM AND THE FUTURE OF FOSSIL FUELS</div><div>W ednesday, January 16 & Thurs day, January 1 7, 2013</div><div>Oklahoma Cit y, Oklahom a</div><div>
</div><div>!</div><div>
</div><div>!</div><div>
</div><div>!</div><div>
</div><div>Convened by The Honorable E. Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma</div><div>Sponsored by Mason Attorneys General Education Program</div><div>!</div><div>!</div><div>Henry N. Butler, Executive Director, Law & Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>AGENDA</div><div>Wednesday, January 16, 2013</div><div>Sessions held at the Skirvin Hilton, Venetian Room</div><div>1:00 â€“ 2:00 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Registration, The Skirvin Hilton, Venetian Foyer</div><div>
</div><div>2:00 â€“ 2:15 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Welcome and Introductory Remarks</div><div>The Honorable E. Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma</div><div>
</div><div>2:15 â€“ 3:30 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Coal Generation â€“ Regulatory Challenges to Federalism</div><div>Karl R. Moor, Senior Vice President and Chief Environmental Counsel, Southern Co.</div><div>Jacob A. Williams, Vice President, Generation Development, Peabody Energy</div><div>Steve Thompson, Executive Director, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality</div><div>Moderator: Paul M. Seby, Partner, Moye White</div><div>
</div><div>3:45 â€“ 4:45 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Oil and Gas Industry Dynamics</div><div>Christopher B. McGill, Vice President, Policy Analysis, American Gas Association</div><div>Chris Wright, CEO, Liberty Resources LLC</div><div>Moderator: The Honorable Tim C. Fox, Attorney General of Montana</div><div>
</div><div>5:00 â€“ 6:30 pm</div><div>
</div><div>The Oil and Gas Industry â€“ Regulatory Challenges to Federalism</div><div>William F. Whitsitt, PhD, Executive Vice President, Public Affairs, Devon Energy Corp.</div><div>Roger R. Martella, Jr., Partner, Sidley Austin</div><div>Richard O. Faulk, Chair, Litigation Department, Gardere Wynne Sewell</div><div>Christopher J. Dodson, Deputy General Counsel â€“ Americas, ConocoPhillips</div><div>Peter Kruselnicki, Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, TransCanada</div><div>Moderator: The Honorable Mark L. Shurtleff, Troutman Sanders</div><div>
</div><div>6:30 â€“ 7:30 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Reception, Continental Foyer</div><div>
</div><div>7:30 â€“ 9:00 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Dinner, Continental Room</div><div>Dinner Speaker: Harold Hamm, Chairman, Continental Resources</div><div>
</div><div>Thursday, January 17, 2013</div><div>AG Strategy Sessions held at the Skirvin Hilton, Venetian Room</div><div>7:30 â€“ 9:30 am</div><div>
</div><div>Working Breakfast, Continental Room</div><div>Suggested Responses to Assaults on Federalism</div><div>F. William Brownell, Partner, Hunton & Williams</div><div>Kirsten L. Nathanson, Partner, Crowell & Moring</div><div>Peter S. Glaser, Partner, Troutman Sanders</div><div>David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner, Baker Hostetler</div><div>Moderator: The Honorable Wayne K. Stenehjem, Attorney General of North Dakota</div><div>
</div><div>10:00 am â€“ 12:00 pm</div><div>
</div><div>AG Strategy Session â€“ AG Offices Only</div><div>Facilitator: Jonathan H. Adler, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Business Law</div><div>& Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>12:15 â€“ 1:15 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Working Lunch â€“ AG Offices Only</div><div>
</div><div>1:30 â€“ 3:15 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Continuation of AG Strategy Session â€“ AG Offices Only</div><div>
</div><div>3:15 â€“ 3:30 pm</div><div>
</div><div>Summation and Adjournment â€“ AG Offices Only</div><div>The Honorable E. Scott Pruitt</div><div>
</div><div> Participant List</div><div>Attorneys General and Staff</div><div>Tom Bates</div><div>
</div><div>Britt C. Grant</div><div>
</div><div>Bradford Phelps</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Attorney General's Office</div><div>313 NE 21st Street</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.522.1863</div><div>Tom.Bates@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Georgia Attorney General's Office</div><div>40 Capitol Square SW</div><div>Atlanta, GA 30334</div><div>Phone: 404.651.9453</div><div>bgrant@law.ga.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Arkansas Attorney General's Office</div><div>323 Center Street</div><div>Suite 1100</div><div>Little Rock, AR 72201</div><div>Phone: 501.683.6276</div><div>bradford.phelps@arkansasag.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Jessica L. Blome</div><div>
</div><div>Blake E. Johnson</div><div>
</div><div>Missouri Attorney General's Office</div><div>P.O. Box 899</div><div>Jefferson City, MO 65101</div><div>Phone: 573.751.3640</div><div>jessica.blome@ago.mo.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Nebraska Attorney General's Office</div><div>2115 State Capitol</div><div>Lincoln, NE 68509</div><div>Phone: 402.471.1912</div><div>blake.johnson@nebraska.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Jon Bruning</div><div>
</div><div>Kendra Jones</div><div>
</div><div>Nebraska Attorney General's Office</div><div>2115 State Capitol</div><div>Lincoln, NE 68509</div><div>Phone: 402.471.1912</div><div>anita.scheuler@nebraska.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Arkansas Attorney General's Office</div><div>323 Center Street, Ste. 200</div><div>Little Rock, AR 72223</div><div>Phone: 501.682.7383</div><div>kendra.jones@arkansasag.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Jeff Chanay</div><div>
</div><div>Jeremy Knee</div><div>
</div><div>Kansas Attorney General's Office</div><div>120 SW 10th Avenue</div><div>Topeka, KS 66612</div><div>Phone: 785.368.8435</div><div>Jeff.Chanay@ksag.org</div><div>
</div><div>Missouri Attorney General's Office</div><div>PO Box 899</div><div>Jefferson City, MO 65101</div><div>Phone: 573.751.6579</div><div>jeremy.knee@ago.mo.gov</div><div>
</div><div>David Cookson</div><div>
</div><div>Peter Manning</div><div>
</div><div>Nebraska Attorney Generals Office</div><div>2115 State Capital</div><div>Lincoln, NE 68509</div><div>Phone: 402.430.4219</div><div>david.cookson@nebraska.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Michigan Attorney General's Office</div><div>P.O. Box 30755</div><div>Lansing, MI 48909</div><div>Phone: 517.373.7540</div><div>manningp@michigan.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Clayton Eubanks</div><div>
</div><div>Carlos Muniz</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Attorney General's Office</div><div>313 NE 21st St</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.521.3921</div><div>clayton.eubanks@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Florida Attorney General's Office</div><div>PL.01 The Capitol</div><div>Tallahassee, FL 32399</div><div>Phone: 850.245.0222</div><div>cate.crutcher@myfloridalegal.com</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Tim C. Fox</div><div>
</div><div>Frederick D. Nelson</div><div>
</div><div>215 N. Sanders, Third Fl</div><div>P.O. Box 201401</div><div>Helena, MT 59620.1401</div><div>Phone: 406.444.2026</div><div>hurdler.fox@gmail.com</div><div>
</div><div>Ohio Attorney General's Office</div><div>30 East Broad Street, 17th Floor</div><div>Columbus, OH 43215</div><div>Phone: 614.728.4947</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Michael C. Geraghty</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Sam Olens</div><div>
</div><div>Alaska Attorney General's Office</div><div>1031 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 200</div><div>Anchorage, AK 99501</div><div>Phone: 907.269.5100</div><div>nancy.korting@alaska.gov!</div><div>
</div><div>frederick.nelson@ohioattorneygeneral.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Georgia Attorney General's Office</div><div>40 Capitol Square, SW</div><div>Atlanta, GA 30334</div><div>Phone: 404.656.3300</div><div>solens@law.ga.gov</div><div>
</div><div>James Trey Phillips</div><div>Louisiana Attorney General's Office</div><div>1885 North Thrid Street</div><div>Baton Rouge, LA 70802</div><div>Phone: 225.326.6708</div><div>ramirezt@ag.state.la.us</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. E. Scott Pruitt</div><div>Oklahoma Attorney General's Office</div><div>313 NE 21st St</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.522.4396</div><div>scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Matthew A. Sagsveen</div><div>North Dakota Office of Attorney</div><div>General</div><div>500 N. 9th St.</div><div>Bismarck, ND 58503</div><div>Phone: 701.328.2595</div><div>masagsve@nd.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Derek Schmidt</div><div>Kansas Attorney General's Office</div><div>120 SW 10th Avenue</div><div>Topeka, KS 66612</div><div>Phone: 785.296.2218</div><div>delberta.pfeifer@ksag.org</div><div>
</div><div>Daniel Sonneveldt</div><div>Michigan Attorney General's Office</div><div>P.O. Box 30212</div><div>Lansing, MI 48909</div><div>Phone: 517.373.1115</div><div>sonneveldtd@michigan.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Katie J. Spohn</div><div>Nebraska Attorney General's Office</div><div>2115 State Capitol</div><div>Lincoln, NE 68509</div><div>Phone: 402.471.2834</div><div>katie.spohn@nebraska.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Kevin St. John</div><div>Wisconsin Attorney General's Office</div><div>17 West Main Street</div><div>P.O. Box 7857</div><div>Madison, WI 53703</div><div>Phone: 608.266.0425</div><div>stjohnkm@doj.state.wi.us</div><div>
</div><div> Hon. John Suthers</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. John E. Swallow</div><div>
</div><div>Mary Jo Woods</div><div>
</div><div>Colorado Attorney General's Office</div><div>1525 Sherman St.</div><div>Denver, CO 80203</div><div>Phone: 303.866.3557</div><div>Terri.Connell@state.co.us</div><div>
</div><div>Utah Attorney General's Office</div><div>350 No Main Street, #230</div><div>P. O. Box 142320</div><div>Salt Lake City, UT 84114</div><div>Phone: 801.538.1191</div><div>saexeter@utah.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Mississippi Attorney General's Office</div><div>P.O. Box 220</div><div>Jackson, MS 39205</div><div>Phone: 601.359.3020</div><div>mwood@ago.state.ms.us</div><div>
</div><div>Kevin L. Turner</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Attorney Generalâ€™</div><div>313 NE 21st Street</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.522.4448</div><div>patrick.wyrick@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Wayne K. Stenehjem</div><div>North Dakota Attorney General's</div><div>Office</div><div>600 E. Boulevard Ave.</div><div>Capitol Building</div><div>Bismarck, ND 58505</div><div>Phone: 701.328.2213</div><div>wstenehjem@nd.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Patrick R. Wyrick</div><div>Alabama Attorney Generalâ€™s Office</div><div>501 Washington Avenue</div><div>Montgomery, AL 36104</div><div>Phone: (334) 353.2196</div><div>kturner@ago.state.al.us</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Williams</div><div>South Dakota Attorney General's</div><div>Office</div><div>1302 E Hwy 14 Suite 1</div><div>Pierre, SD 57501</div><div>Phone: 605.773.3215</div><div>Rich.Williams@state.sd.us</div><div>
</div><div>Panelists</div><div>Jonathan H. Adler</div><div>
</div><div>Peter S. Glaser</div><div>
</div><div>Case Western Reserve University</div><div>School of Law</div><div>11075 East Boulevard</div><div>Cleveland, OH 44106</div><div>Phone: 216.368.2535</div><div>jha5@case.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Troutman Sanders LLP</div><div>401 9th St NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20004</div><div>Phone: 202.274.2998</div><div>peter.glaser@troutmansanders.com</div><div>
</div><div>F. William Brownell</div><div>Hunton & Williams</div><div>2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington DC, DC 20007</div><div>Phone: 202 955.1555</div><div>bbrownell@hunton.com</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>George Mason University</div><div>School of Law</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8644</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Christopher J. Dodson</div><div>ConocoPhillips</div><div>600 North Dairy Ashford</div><div>McLean Building</div><div>Houston, TX 77079.1175</div><div>Phone: 281.293.1291</div><div>chris.j.dodson@conocophillips.com</div><div>
</div><div>Richard O. Faulk</div><div>Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP</div><div>1000 Louisiana, Suite 3400</div><div>Houston, TX 77002</div><div>Phone: 713.276.5651</div><div>rfaulk@gardere.com</div><div>
</div><div>Harold Hamm</div><div>
</div><div>Karl Moor</div><div>Southern Company</div><div>600 18th Street North, Floor 15N</div><div>Birmingham, AL 35203</div><div>Phone: 205.257.6227</div><div>krmoor@southernco.com</div><div>
</div><div>Kirsten L. Nathanson</div><div>
</div><div>Continental Resources, Inc.</div><div>P O Box 269097</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73126</div><div>Phone: 405.234.9131</div><div>harold.hamm@clr.com!</div><div>
</div><div>Crowell & Moring LLP</div><div>1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20004</div><div>Phone: 202.624.2887</div><div>knathanson@crowell.com</div><div>
</div><div>Peter Kruselnicki</div><div>
</div><div>David B. Rivkin, Jr.</div><div>
</div><div>TransCanada</div><div>450 - 1 Street SW</div><div>Calgary, AB T2P 5H1</div><div>Phone: 403.920.6461</div><div>peter_kruselnicki@transcanada.com</div><div>
</div><div>Roger R. Martella, Jr.</div><div>Partner</div><div>Sidley Austin LLP</div><div>1501 K Street, N.W.</div><div>Washington, DC 20005</div><div>Phone: 202.736.8097</div><div>rmartella@sidley.com</div><div>
</div><div>Christopher B. McGill</div><div>American Gas Association</div><div>400 North Capitol Street, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20165</div><div>Phone: 202.824.7132</div><div>cmcgill@aga.org</div><div>
</div><div>Baker & Hostetler LLP</div><div>1050 Connecticut Avenue NW</div><div>Suite 1100</div><div>Washington, DC 20036</div><div>Phone: 202.861.1731</div><div>drivkin@bakerlaw.com!</div><div>
</div><div>Paul M. Seby</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal</div><div>Electricity</div><div>1400 16th Street, Suite 600</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>Phone: 303.292.2900</div><div>paul.seby@moyewhite.com</div><div>
</div><div>Hon. Mark L. Shurtleff</div><div>Troutman Sanders LLP</div><div>401 9th Street, NW</div><div>Suite 1000</div><div>Washington, DC 20004-2134</div><div>Phone: 202.662.2071</div><div>mark.shurtleff@troutmansanders.com</div><div>
</div><div> Steve A. Thompson</div><div>
</div><div>Jacob A. Williams</div><div>
</div><div>Chris A. Wright</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Department of</div><div>Environmental Quality</div><div>707 N. Robinson</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73101</div><div>Phone: 405.702.7161</div><div>steve.thompson@deq.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Peabody Energy</div><div>701 Market St. Suite 800</div><div>St. Louis, MO 63021</div><div>Phone: 314.413.4931</div><div>jwilliams@peabodyenergy.com</div><div>
</div><div>Liberty Resources</div><div>1200 17th Street</div><div>Suite 2050</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>Phone: 303.749.5720</div><div>chris.wright@libertyresourcesllc.com</div><div>
</div><div>William F. Whitsitt</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.552.3556</div><div>bill.whitsitt@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>Other Guests</div><div>Dan Barron</div><div>Alliance Resource Partners</div><div>1717 S. Boulder, Suite 400</div><div>Tulsa, OK 74114</div><div>Phone: 918.295.7608</div><div>dan.barron@arlp.com</div><div>
</div><div>Wendy Sue Brooks</div><div>WPX Energy, Inc.</div><div>One Williams Center, Suite 3800</div><div>Tulsa, OK 74172</div><div>Phone: 539.573.4850</div><div>wendy.brooks@wpxenergy.com</div><div>
</div><div>Jonathan Bunch</div><div>The Federalist Society</div><div>1015 18th St. N.W.</div><div>Washington, DC 20036</div><div>Phone: 202.822.8138</div><div>jonathan.bunch@fed.soc.org</div><div>
</div><div>Dennis J. Donohue</div><div>Warner Norcross & Judd LLP</div><div>900 Fifth Third Center</div><div>111 Lyon Street, N.W.</div><div>Grand Rapids, MI 49348</div><div>Phone: 616.752.2192</div><div>ddonohue@wnj.com</div><div>
</div><div>Randy Eminger</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal</div><div>Electricity</div><div>240 N. Highland Ave., Unit 1220</div><div>Atlanta, GA 30307</div><div>Phone: 202.459.4844</div><div>reminger@cleancoalusa.org</div><div>
</div><div>Noel J. Francisco</div><div>Jones Day</div><div>51 Louisiana Ave., N.W.</div><div>Washington, DC 20001</div><div>Phone: 202.879.5485</div><div>njfrancisco@jonesday.com</div><div>
</div><div>Rod B. Hastie</div><div>
</div><div>Robert Paduchik</div><div>
</div><div>Hunton & Williams</div><div>2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20037</div><div>Phone: 202.955.1937</div><div>rhastie@hunton.com</div><div>
</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal</div><div>Electricity</div><div>1152 15th Street, NW</div><div>Suite 400</div><div>Washington, DC 20005</div><div>Phone: 202.459.4833</div><div>rpaduchik@cleancoalusa.org</div><div>
</div><div>Mimi C. Larsen</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal</div><div>Electricity</div><div>1400 16th Street</div><div>Suite 600</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>Phone: 303.292.7938</div><div>mimi.larsen@moyewhite.com</div><div>
</div><div>Sarah Lenti</div><div>Scott Pruitt for Attorney General</div><div>1851 Bassett</div><div>Unit 314</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>Phone: 202.557.5461</div><div>sarah.lenti@gmail.com</div><div>
</div><div>Thomas Skinner</div><div>Jones Day</div><div>77 West Wacker Drive</div><div>Suite 3500</div><div>Chicago, IL 60601</div><div>Phone: 312.269.4156</div><div>tskinner@jonesday.com</div><div>
</div><div>Scott Stone</div><div>Hunton & Williams</div><div>2200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20037</div><div>Phone: 202.955.1686</div><div>sstone@hunton.com</div><div>
</div><div>Andrew P. Miller</div><div>
</div><div>Lyndon Taylor</div><div>
</div><div>Andrew P. Miller</div><div>1503 35th Street, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20007</div><div>Phone: 202.337.1726</div><div>andrewpmiller@verizon.net</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Ave.</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102.1015</div><div>Phone: 405.228.2800</div><div>lyndon.taylor@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>Dorysa Moore</div><div>
</div><div>Allen Wright</div><div>
</div><div>Marathon Oil</div><div>5555 San Felipe</div><div>Houston, TX 77056</div><div>Phone: 713.296.2786</div><div>Dorysamoore@marathonoil.com</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102</div><div>Phone: 405.552.5394</div><div>allen.wright@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>Mark Ourada</div><div>American Coalition for Clean Coal</div><div>Electricity</div><div>1110 Innsbrook Lane</div><div>Buffalo, MN 55313</div><div>Phone: 202.459.4866</div><div>mourada@cleancoalusa.org</div><div>
</div><div> Speaker Biographies</div><div>Jonathan H. Adler</div><div>Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law</div><div>Case Western Reserve University School of Law</div><div>11075 East Boulevard</div><div>Cleveland, OH 44106</div><div>Phone: 216.368.2535</div><div>jha5@case.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Jonathan H. Adler is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Center for</div><div>Business Law & Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches</div><div>courses in environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of</div><div>four books on environmental policy and over a dozen book chapters. His articles have appeared in</div><div>publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Supreme Court Economic Review to</div><div>The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Professor Adler is a Senior Fellow at the Property &</div><div>Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, a contributing editor to National Review Online and a</div><div>regular contributor to the popular legal blog, â€œThe Volokh Conspiracyâ€ (http://volokh.com).</div><div>Professor Adler serves on the academic advisory board of the Cato Supreme Court Review, the Board of</div><div>Directors of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, and the Environmental Law</div><div>Instituteâ€™s Environmental Law Reporter and ELI Press Advisory Board.</div><div>Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on</div><div>the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at</div><div>the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where</div><div>he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University</div><div>and a JD summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law.</div><div>
</div><div>F. William Brownell</div><div>Partner</div><div>Hunton & Williams LLP</div><div>2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20037</div><div>Phone: 202.955.1555</div><div>bbrownell@hunton.com</div><div>
</div><div>Bill is Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee. His practice focuses on environmental litigation,</div><div>regulation and counseling, including climate change regulation and litigation, clean air regulation,</div><div>environmental licensing and auditing, and waste management and clean water issues. Bill represents clients</div><div>in both the United States and Europe. In the United States, his practice involves proceedings before federal</div><div>and state agencies, courts and Congress; in Europe, it involves advice on European Community law.</div><div>Bill is a member of the American Bar Association and is AV Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell. He is</div><div>admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the DC, Second,</div><div>Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits.</div><div>
</div><div> Henry N. Butler</div><div>George Mason University Foundation</div><div>Professor of Law</div><div>Executive Director, Law & Economics Center</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8644</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>Dr. Henry N. Butler, a leading public policy analyst and specialist in law and economics, is a George Mason</div><div>Foundation Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason. He</div><div>has devoted much of his career to improving the countryâ€™s civil justice system through judicial education</div><div>programs. Professor Butler most recently served as the first executive director of the Searle Center on Law,</div><div>Regulation and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law. He has held prior</div><div>appointments at The Brookings Institute, Chapman University, the University of Kansas, the University of</div><div>Chicago, and Texas A&M University. From 1986 to 1993, he was a law professor at George Mason and</div><div>during that period also served as an Associate Dean and Director of the Law and Economics Center.</div><div>He received a M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a</div><div>J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. He received a bachelorâ€™s degree in economics from the</div><div>University of Richmond.</div><div>
</div><div>Christopher J. Dodson</div><div>Deputy General Counsel - Americas</div><div>ConocoPhillips</div><div>600 North Dairy Ashford</div><div>McLean Building</div><div>Houston, TX 77079</div><div>Phone: 281.293.1291</div><div>chris.j.dodson@conocophillips.com</div><div>
</div><div>Chris Dodson is deputy general counsel, Americas, for ConocoPhillips.</div><div>Prior to his current position, Dodson was managing counsel â€“ corporate E&P and was involved in upstream</div><div>international transactions and operations, and corporate compliance programs. He previously served as</div><div>Senior Counsel providing legal support to COPâ€™s emerging businesses, various corporate groups, projects</div><div>and initiatives, and the companyâ€™s interests in CP Chem and DCP Midstream.</div><div>Dodson began his career with ConocoPhillips in 1981 as a Production Engineer in the Oklahoma City</div><div>exploration and production office. He served in various engineering, regulatory, and health, safety and</div><div>environmental positions while in Oklahoma City. In 1990, he transferred into the Legal function in Houston</div><div>and provided HSE legal advice to the upstream business and was involved in multi-party Superfund/RCRA</div><div>sites. He was Vice President and General Counsel of Dubai Petroleum Company from 1996 -1999, and</div><div>spent time in Business Development managing projects in the Middle East before returning to the Legal</div><div>function after the ConocoPhillips merger.</div><div>Dodson is a member of the Oklahoma and Texas Bar Associations.</div><div>A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Dodson holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the</div><div>University of Tulsa (1981) and a Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University School of Law (1986 night</div><div>program).</div><div>
</div><div> Richard O. Faulk</div><div>Partner</div><div>Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP</div><div>Wells Fargo Plaza, Suite 3400</div><div>1000 Louisiana</div><div>Houston, Texas 77002</div><div>Phone: 713.276.5651</div><div>rfaulk@gardere.com</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Faulk chairs Gardereâ€™s Litigation Department and the Firmâ€™s Environmental Practice Group. He</div><div>concentrates his practice in complex toxic tort and environmental litigation, including class actions and other</div><div>â€œmass tortâ€ cases involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants. He has significant expertise in cases with</div><div>international implications and comparative mass tort procedures.</div><div>Mr. Faulk also leads Gardere's Climate Change Task Force. He and his partner, John Gray, have authored</div><div>one of the major scholarly papers in the area, Stormy Weather Ahead: The Legal Environment of Global</div><div>Climate Change. This comprehensive article has been presented at conferences of the U.S. Chamber of</div><div>Commerce, in media events at the Washington Legal Foundation, and at various professional development</div><div>seminars for lawyers, engineers, and businessmen. Since climate change is a multi-disciplinary issue that</div><div>affects clients in a variety of ways, Mr. Faulk has assembled a Task Force that includes not only trial and</div><div>appellate lawyers, but also lawyers from the corporate, environmental, tax, and intellectual property areas,</div><div>as well as respected experts in the field.</div><div>In over 35 years of practice, Mr. Faulk has served as lead counsel for toxic tort and environmental litigation</div><div>in Texas and other jurisdictions. He has defended claims for a variety of injuries and illnesses, including</div><div>various forms of cancer and neurotoxic effects, and has assembled a group of highly qualified medical,</div><div>safety, and engineering experts to assist in defending his clients.</div><div>Mr. Faulk is also experienced in environmental litigation, including groundwater contamination cases, cost</div><div>recovery and contribution actions under CERCLA and state environmental laws, and "neighborhood"</div><div>exposure cases alleging residential toxic exposures and property value diminution from alleged pollution</div><div>released by manufacturing facilities.</div><div>Mr. Faulk received the 2003, 2009, and 2012 Distinguished Legal Writing Awards presented by The Burton</div><div>Awards for Legal Achievement. He is regularly recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer by Law & Politics</div><div>Media Inc., and since 2004 has been annually listed in Chambers USA: Americaâ€™s Leading Lawyers for</div><div>Business. In 2005, Mr. Faulk addressed the National Academy of Sciences regarding the reliability of</div><div>admissibility of scientific evidence in the courts.</div><div>
</div><div> Hon. Tim C. Fox</div><div>Attorney General</div><div>Montana Department of Justice</div><div>215 N. Sanders, Third Floor</div><div>P.O. Box 201401</div><div>Helena, MT 59620</div><div>Phone: 406.444.2026</div><div>hurdler.fox@gmail.com</div><div>
</div><div>Tim Fox was born in 1957 as the fifth and last child of a hard-working Hardin, Montana family. Like many</div><div>kids in small agricultural communities, Tim began working at a young age, and soon developed a strong</div><div>work ethic thanks in part to the depression-era work ethic of his parents, Rich and Roberta Fox. He attended</div><div>Hardin public schools, and graduated from Hardin High School, and the University of Montana with degrees</div><div>in geology (1981) and law (1987). A standout athlete in high school and college, and an amateur athlete</div><div>after college, Tim knows how to set and achieve goals, how to lead, and how to be a team player.</div><div>After serving as a law clerk to Associate Justice L.C. Gulbrandson of the Montana Supreme Court, Tim</div><div>began practicing law with the Billings, Montana law firm of Moulton, Bellingham & Longo in 1988. He first</div><div>entered public service in 1990 when recruited to develop a new environmental regulatory program for the</div><div>Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. After three years as a State of Montana employee, he</div><div>established a solo law firm in Billings where he served as a contract public defender for the City of Billings</div><div>practicing criminal law, in addition to maintaining a civil law practice. Tim and his family moved to Helena,</div><div>Montana in 1995 to assist then Governor Marc Racicot in his bid for reelection. Shortly after arriving in</div><div>Helena, he went to work for the Montana Department of Environmental Quality as a Special Assistant</div><div>Attorney General. In 1998, Tim was promoted to a Division Administrator management position with the</div><div>DEQ where he managed people, programs, and budgets for the people of Montana. In 1999, Tim was hired</div><div>as Vice-President and Legal Counsel for a Helena-based national bank, Mountain West Bank. He served in</div><div>that position for over four years before re-entering private practice with the law firm of Gough, Shanahan,</div><div>Johnson & Waterman, PLLP.</div><div>In his 25 years of experience as a Montana attorney, Tim has litigated numerous complex cases for</div><div>individual Montanans and Montana businesses. Like many dedicated Montana attorneys, Tim devotes</div><div>considerable time to providing pro bono legal services to Montanans who cannot afford an attorney, and to</div><div>charitable and faith-based organizations. In one recent case, Tim helped the Alliance Defense Fund defend</div><div>an East Helena Baptist church and its Pastor when the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices</div><div>prosecuted the Church and its Pastor for speaking about Biblical truth from the pulpit.</div><div>Through the years, Tim has served in leadership positions on the board of directors of low income and</div><div>disabled housing projects in Billings, two Montana symphony orchestras (Billings and Helena), a faith-based</div><div>private K-12 school, the Carroll College Saints Athletic Association, and the Florence Crittenton Home,</div><div>among other charitable and faith-based organizations. As a member of the Board of Delegates of the</div><div>University of Montana Alumni Association, Tim strives to improve the quality of Montanaâ€™s secondary</div><div>education institutions. Tim was also appointed by Governor Marc Racicot to serve on the board of directors</div><div>of the Montana Historical Society, and by Governor Judy Martz to serve on the Montana State Banking</div><div>Board. His community leadership, together with over seven years as a State of Montana public servant,</div><div>make Tim uniquely qualified to be Montanaâ€™s next Attorney General.</div><div>Timâ€™s brothers are Dr. Richard A. Fox, Jr. a retired University of South Dakota professor, Mike Fox, a retired</div><div>National Park Service employee, Steve Fox, a retired Montana public high school teacher, and Dennis Fox</div><div>who manages the family business in the Hardin area. Tim is married to the former Karen Wagner of Idaho</div><div>Falls, Idaho, and together they have four children â€“ Anna McMahon, Michael McMahon, Laura McMahon,</div><div>and Caroline Fox â€“ and one grandchild, Grace Olivia Emmert.</div><div>
</div><div> Peter S. Glaser</div><div>Partner</div><div>Troutman Sanders LLP</div><div>401 9th Street, NW</div><div>Suite 1000</div><div>Phone: 202.274.2998</div><div>peter.glaser@troutmansanders.com</div><div>
</div><div>Peter practices in the energy and environmental law fields and is the chair of the firm's Climate Change</div><div>Practice Team. He represents electric utility, mining and other energy industry companies and associations,</div><div>as well as other businesses, on regulatory and commercial matters. He specializes in environmental</div><div>regulation and litigation, particularly in the area of air quality and global climate change. He has participated</div><div>in numerous EPA rulemakings and judicial appeals and in various state, federal, and local siting and</div><div>permitting proceedings. Given his strong background, he has been asked to testify five times before</div><div>Congress on climate change issues. Peter has also represented numerous coal producers and coal</div><div>purchasers on a variety of commercial and contract matters, including litigated disputes, and his experience</div><div>extends to proceedings before the STB and FERC.</div><div>
</div><div>Harold Hamm</div><div>Continental Resources, Inc.</div><div>Founder, Chairman and CEO</div><div>P.O. Box 269097</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73126</div><div>Phone: 405.234.9131</div><div>harold.hamm@clr.com</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Harold G. Hamm, LLM, serves as Executive Chairman of the Board of Continental Resources Inc. and</div><div>has been it Chief Executive Officer since 1967. Mr. Hamm served as the President of Continental Resources</div><div>Inc. from October 2008 to November 2009 and previously from 1967 to October 3, 2005.</div><div>He served as Chief Executive Officer and Interim President of Hiland Holdings GP LLC., a General Partner</div><div>of Hiland Holdings Gp Lp., from April 18, 2007 to June 11, 2007. He served as President and Chief</div><div>Executive Officer of Continental Gas Inc. since December 1994 and then served as Chief Executive Officer</div><div>until 2004. He founded Save Domestic Oil, Inc. He also co-founded the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance</div><div>to preserve the oil and gas markets for oil and gas produced in the United States. Mr. Hamm has been</div><div>Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hiland Partners GP LLC, the General Partner of Hiland Partners, LP</div><div>since October 2004. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of Hiland Partners GP</div><div>Holdings, LLC., since May 2006. He served as the Chairman of Save Domestic Oil, Inc. Mr. Hamm has been</div><div>a Director of Hiland Partners GP, LLC since October 2004. He has been an Executive Director at</div><div>Continental Resources Inc. since 1967. He has been a Director of Complete Production Services, Inc. since</div><div>September 12, 2005. He serves as a Director of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. He served as a</div><div>Director of Continental Gas Inc. since December 1994. Mr. Hamm served as the Chairman of Oklahoma</div><div>Independent Petroleum Association from June 2005 to June 2007 and its Vice President of the Western</div><div>Region. He served as a founding board member of the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. Mr. Hamm</div><div>served as President of the National Stripper Well Association. He serves on the Executive Boards of the</div><div>Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association and served on board of Oklahoma Energy Explorers.</div><div>In 2011, he was inducted into the OIPAâ€™s Wildcatters Hall of Honor, the associationâ€™s highest recognition.</div><div>
</div><div> Peter Kruselnicki</div><div>VP, Stakeholder Relations</div><div>TransCanada</div><div>450 - 1 Street SW</div><div>Calgary T2P 5H1</div><div>Canada</div><div>Phone: 403.920.6461</div><div>peter_kruselnicki@transcanada.com</div><div>Peter Kruselnicki joined TransCanada in March 2007 as Vice-President, Public Sector Relations. In his</div><div>current role, he is responsible for managing TransCanadaâ€™s government relations, community relations and</div><div>community investment. Prior to joining TransCanada Mr. Kruselnicki had worked for the Alberta Government</div><div>for 26 years in a number of senior official capacities including Chief of Staff to the Premier, Deputy Minister</div><div>of Finance and Secretary to Treasury Board and Deputy Minister of Labour. Prior to joining the Labour</div><div>Ministry he spent 16 years in Alberta Public Works Supply and Services in various senior capacities. Mr.</div><div>Kruselnicki spent nine months in New Zealand in a secondment to the New Zealand government State</div><div>Services Commission in 2005 prior to returning to assume the Premierâ€™s Chief of Staff responsibilities.</div><div>Mr. Kruselnicki graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil</div><div>Engineering. He also attended the Banff School of Advanced Management in 1987. Peter is a member o the</div><div>Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.</div><div>Mr. Kruselnicki has had extensive experience, involvement and implementation of strategic policy</div><div>development in the Province of Alberta. He has also had extensive experience in working with all levels of</div><div>government, industry and professional associations. Mr. Kruselnicki has also served on a number of Crown</div><div>Corporation Boards including the Alberta Capital Finance Corporation, Alberta Pension Administration</div><div>Corporation and the Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation. He also served on the Careers, the Next</div><div>Generation board for seven years.</div><div>
</div><div>Roger R. Martella, Jr.</div><div>Partner</div><div>Sidley Austin LLP</div><div>1501 K Street, N.W.</div><div>Washington, DC 20005</div><div>Phone: 202.736.8097</div><div>rmartella@sidley.com</div><div>
</div><div>Roger Martella is a partner in the Environmental Practice Group at Sidley Austin LLP. He recently rejoined</div><div>Sidley Austin LLP after serving as the General Counsel of the United States Environmental Protection</div><div>Agency, concluding 10 years of litigating and handling complex environmental and natural resource matters</div><div>at the Department of Justice and EPA. Mr. Martellaâ€™s practice focuses on three primary areas: advising</div><div>companies on strategic approaches to address climate change, promote sustainability, and utilize clean</div><div>energy; environmental and natural resource litigation and mediation; advising multinational companies on</div><div>compliance with environmental laws in the United States, China, the European Union, and other nations.</div><div>As General Counsel of the EPA, Mr. Martella served as EPAâ€™s chief legal advisor supervising an office of</div><div>350 attorneys and staff in Washington and 10 regional offices. At EPA, Mr. Martella served as Agency</div><div>counsel on six Supreme Court decisions, including Massachusetts v. EPA (climate change); Defenders of</div><div>Wildlife v. EPA (finding no Endangered Species Act duty to consult when approving state water program);</div><div>EPA v. Rapanos and Maine v. S.D. Warren (landmark decisions addressing federal jurisdiction over waters</div><div>of the United States); Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy (addressing Clean Air Act enforcement</div><div>against powerplants); and U.S. v. Atlantic Research Corp. (the Courtâ€™s most recent decision regarding</div><div>CERCLA).</div><div>Mr. Martella graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was Editor in Chief of the Vanderbilt Law</div><div>Review, and Cornell University, where he studied environmental science. Following law school, he clerked</div><div>for the Hon. David M. Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.</div><div>
</div><div> Christopher B. McGill</div><div>Vice President Policy Analysis</div><div>American Gas Association</div><div>400 North Capitol Street, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20165</div><div>Phone: 202.824.7132</div><div>cmcgill@aga.org</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. McGill is the Vice President Policy Analysis at the American Gas Association (AGA), which is headquartered</div><div>in Washington, D.C. AGA is a national trade association providing services and advocacy for more than 200</div><div>local natural gas utility and other members.</div><div>Mr. McGillâ€™s work is in the assessment of future supplies of natural gas, natural gas production, unconventional</div><div>gas operations and completion technologies, underground storage, key pipeline transportation issues, winter</div><div>heating season planning, key developments in natural gas markets and other related topics in the gas industry.</div><div>He guides the analytical support for policy initiatives at the association and is an active spokesperson on many</div><div>natural gas topics, representing local gas utility points of view to industry, regulators, legislators and the public.</div><div>Mr. McGill previously worked as an exploration geologist before joining AGA. He holds a Bachelor of Science</div><div>degree in Geology from Madison College in Harrisonburg, Virginia (1975) and a M.B.A. from Old Dominion</div><div>University in Norfolk, Virginia (1988). Mr. McGill has been a member of the American Association of Petroleum</div><div>Geologists for more than 30 years.</div><div>
</div><div>Karl R. Moor</div><div>Senior Vice President and Chief Environmental</div><div>Counsel</div><div>Southern Company</div><div>600 18th Street North, Floor 15N</div><div>Birmingham, AL 35203</div><div>Phone: 205.257.6227</div><div>krmoor@southernco.com</div><div>
</div><div>Karl Moor, who joined Southern Company in 1998, is senior vice president and chief environmental counsel</div><div>where he is responsible for providing legal advice and policy guidance on environmental matters affecting</div><div>the operation of the Southern Company system's fleet of generating plants. Previously he served as vice</div><div>president and associate general counsel, providing counsel for litigation and public policy as well as legal</div><div>expertise in compliance and other regulatory matters.</div><div>Prior to joining Southern Company, Moor was a partner with the law firm Balch & Bingham LLP in its utility,</div><div>legislative and regulatory section. He also served six years in the U.S. government, holding various positions</div><div>on the Senate Judiciary and Labor and Human Resources committees and in the Reagan administration. He</div><div>earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Moor has a range of experience in federal,</div><div>regulatory and legislative matters that affect energy producers as well as extensive experience with the</div><div>Federal Power Act and the Clean Air Act.</div><div>With 4.4 million customers and more than 43,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern</div><div>Company is the premier energy company serving the Southeast. A leading U.S. producer of electricity,</div><div>Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states and a growing competitive generation company, as</div><div>well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Southern Company brands are known for excellent</div><div>customer service, high reliability and retail electric prices below the national average. Southern Company</div><div>also is continually ranked among the top utilities in Fortune's annual World's Most Admired Electric and Gas</div><div>rankings.</div><div>
</div><div> Kirsten L. Nathanson</div><div>Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP</div><div>1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.</div><div>Washington, DC 20004-2595</div><div>Phone: 202.624.2887</div><div>knathanson@crowell.com</div><div>
</div><div>Kirsten L. Nathanson is a partner in the firm's Environment & Natural Resources Group, focusing on</div><div>environmental litigation, enforcement defense, risk assessment, and regulatory counseling under the major</div><div>federal environmental and public lands statutes. Her litigation experience covers the Clean Water Act, Clean</div><div>Air Act, Endangered Species Act, FIFRA, NEPA, SMCRA, RCRA, and CERCLA, encompassing citizen suit</div><div>defense, regulatory challenges, remediation cost recovery and defense, Administrative Procedure Act</div><div>actions, and EPA enforcement.</div><div>She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal appellate and district</div><div>courts nationwide. Kirsten currently serves as Co-President of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the</div><div>Women's Energy Network. She is a Past President and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Energy &</div><div>Mineral Law Foundation and also leads the Crowell & Moring Women Attorneys' Network.</div><div>
</div><div> Hon. E. Scott Pruitt</div><div>Attorney General</div><div>State of Oklahoma</div><div>313 NE 21 Street</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73105</div><div>Phone: 405.521.3921</div><div>scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt was elected as the 17th Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma on</div><div>November 2, 2010. Attorney General Pruitt has quickly risen as a national leader in the cause of restoring</div><div>limited government and the proper balance of power between the states and the federal government.</div><div>As a first priority in office, Attorney General Pruitt established Oklahomaâ€™s first Federalism Unit in the Office</div><div>of Solicitor General to more effectively combat unwarranted regulation and systematic overreach by federal</div><div>agencies, boards and offices. Pruitt currently serves as chairman of the Republican Attorneys General</div><div>Association (RAGA) and vice-chairman of the Midwest Region of the National Association of Attorneys</div><div>General (NAAG). Under his leadership, attorneys general have come together to advance policies and legal</div><div>strategies that protect the interests of their states from an overly intrusive federal government, with a</div><div>particular focus on domestic energy security and production. Attorney General Pruitt has led the charge with</div><div>repeated notices and subsequent lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their</div><div>leadershipâ€™s activist agenda and refusal to follow the law.</div><div>In response to a personal call to defend the needs of children who are less fortunate, Attorney General Pruitt</div><div>worked to negotiate a state settlement through the Department of Human Services that will dramatically</div><div>improve foster care in Oklahoma. He was awarded the â€œHero Awardâ€ by the Marland Childrenâ€™s Home for his</div><div>efforts to prevent closure of the home and eviction of children who are emotionally disabled. In 2011,</div><div>Attorney General Pruitt received the Humanitarian Award by Oklahoma CARE, a coalition of ministries and</div><div>providers who deliver care for troubled children and their families.</div><div>Before being elected Attorney General, Pruitt served Broken Arrow, Coweta and Tulsa in the Oklahoma</div><div>State Senate where he served for eight years, four of those as Assistant Republican Floor Leader. In the</div><div>Senate, he was the leading spokesman for workersâ€™ compensation reform, lawsuit reform and greater</div><div>accountability for government spending. He championed traditional, faith-based legislation that included</div><div>allowing faith-based organizations to partner with the state in helping prisoners successfully re-integrate into</div><div>society after their sentences were fulfilled.</div><div>Attorney General Pruittâ€™s record of defending religious freedoms began during his time in the state</div><div>Legislature with his efforts to author and successfully pass the Religious Freedoms Act, making Oklahoma</div><div>one of the first states to pass an act that makes it more difficult for a government to burden an individual's</div><div>right to practice their faith, especially in public. His efforts continue as Attorney General, joining six states to</div><div>fight the federal health care mandate that will require religious groups to violate their beliefs. In 2012, Pruitt</div><div>was selected to serve as a trustee for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.</div><div>From 2003 to 2010, Attorney General Pruitt was co-owner and managing general partner of the Oklahoma</div><div>City Redhawks, the Triple-A baseball team in Oklahoma City. The team, under his leadership, regularly</div><div>rated among the leagueâ€™s leaders in attendance and merchandise sales.</div><div>Pruitt grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated high school and earned a scholarship to play</div><div>baseball as a second baseman at the University of Kentucky. He earned a bachelorâ€™s degree in</div><div>communications and political science at Georgetown College before being accepted to the University of</div><div>Tulsa College of Law. After working his way through law school and earning a Juris Doctorate, Pruitt</div><div>ventured into private practice, specializing in constitutional and employment law.</div><div>The Attorney General and his wife of 21 years, Marlyn, are raising two children, McKenna and Cade, in</div><div>Tulsa. The Pruitts are members of the First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, where Pruitt serves as deacon.</div><div>
</div><div> David B. Rivkin, Jr.</div><div>Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP</div><div>Washington Square, Suite 1100</div><div>1050 Connecticut Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20036-5304</div><div>Phone: 202.861.1731</div><div>drivkin@bakerlaw.com</div><div>
</div><div>David B. Rivkin, Jr., is a member of the firmâ€™s litigation, international and environmental groups and he cochairs the firmâ€™s appellate and major motions team. He has extensive experience in constitutional,</div><div>administrative and international law litigation.</div><div>Mr. Rivkin has been involved in numerous high-profile cases. He has represented the 26 States that have</div><div>challenged the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and was the lead outside</div><div>counsel in the District Court and Court of Appeals. He also represented the Republic of Croatia before the</div><div>International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice for a number</div><div>of years on a wide range of issues involving international humanitarian law and the laws of war. Mr. Rivkin</div><div>also has considerable experience with litigation involving national security-related matters, including</div><div>defending Bivens actions brought against former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. From 2004</div><div>through 2007, he served as an expert member of the United Nations Subcommission on the Promotion and</div><div>Protection of Human Rights.</div><div>Mr. Rivkin has represented corporations in alien tort statute and civil RICO litigation, as well as in challenges</div><div>to federal agency actions and constitutional challenges to state statutes. He has provided compliance advice</div><div>to companies, as well as handled enforcement proceedings before government agencies on issues arising</div><div>out of various multilateral and unilateral sanctions (ITAR, EAR and questions relating to dealings with</div><div>proscribed countries), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-boycott issues and environmental and</div><div>energy matters.</div><div>From 1993 to December 1999, Mr. Rivkin was a member of the Hunton & Williams law firm. Prior to</div><div>returning to private practice, Mr. Rivkin served from 1987-1993 in various capacities in the federal</div><div>government. During 1992-1993, he was Associate Executive Director and General Counsel of the</div><div>Presidentâ€™s Council on Competitiveness at the White House. While there, he was responsible for the review</div><div>and analysis of legal issues related to the regulatory review conducted by the Council.</div><div>Mr. Rivkin also served as the Associate General Counsel, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), from 1990-91.</div><div>At DOE he was responsible for international, constitutional, environmental and energy matters, including</div><div>global climate change problems, natural gas, hydro and electricity issues, development and implementation</div><div>of the Natural Energy Strategy, implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, wetlands policy</div><div>and related issues, development of RCRA and Clean Water Act legislative proposals and deregulation of</div><div>energy markets. Mr. Rivkin played a significant role in developing the Reagan and Bush Administrationsâ€™</div><div>regulatory and legislative proposals affecting natural gas and electric utility industries.</div><div>In addition to his positions with the Council on Competitiveness and the Department of Energy, he served in</div><div>the office of then Vice President George H.W. Bush as Legal Advisor to the Counsel to the Vice President,</div><div>in the White House Counselâ€™s Office and as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Development (OPD),</div><div>U.S. Department of Justice. While at OPD, he worked on a wide variety of constitutional, domestic and</div><div>international issues, including judicial selection, legal policy, immigration and asylum matters and</div><div>intelligence oversight.</div><div>Prior to embarking on a legal career, Mr. Rivkin worked as a defense and foreign policy analyst, focusing on</div><div>Soviet affairs, arms control, naval strategy and NATO-related issues, and served as a defense consultant to</div><div>numerous government agencies and Washington think tanks.</div><div>
</div><div> Paul M. Seby</div><div>Partner, Moye White LLP</div><div>16 Market Square 6th Floor</div><div>1400 16th Street</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>Phone: 303.292.7934</div><div>paul.seby@moyewhite.com</div><div>
</div><div>Paul Seby, a partner at Moye White, co-chairs the firm's Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental</div><div>Group. Paul is a leading practitioner of environmental law in the Rocky Mountain region and was recently</div><div>recognized by Law Week Colorado as "Lawyer of the Year" for 2009. Paul's work focuses on achieving</div><div>client goals in the areas of air and water quality, mining, wildlife and endangered species, land use, BLM</div><div>and U.S. Forest Service public lands issues, wetlands, recycling and waste disposal, and underground</div><div>contamination. Paul also possesses extensive experience in EIS/NEPA compliance, permitting, negotiating</div><div>with government agencies and adversary groups, litigation involving environmental issues, and expert</div><div>witness selection and coordination.</div><div>In governmental policy development, Paul has represented clients in federal and state rulemaking and policy</div><div>development concerning air and water quality, waste disposal, and surface and ground water standards. In</div><div>the permitting arena, Paul's experience extends to air permits, water discharge permits, reclamation permits,</div><div>Section 404 permits, and federal rights-of-way. In the judicial arena, Paul has won several notable cases</div><div>before the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals, the Colorado Supreme Court, and</div><div>many other lower courts. Paul has also defended clients in federal and state enforcement proceedings and</div><div>has prosecuted cases against agencies to force (as well as overturn) administrative agency regulations and</div><div>decisions.</div><div>Paul's in-depth understanding of government programs and how agencies work gives him a "leg up" in</div><div>achieving client objectives. Paul has also assisted legislative sponsors in drafting and testifying on, several</div><div>amendments to Colorado and neighboring states' waste management, recycling, and air and water quality</div><div>laws. Paul understands that achieving successful client outcomes often requires more than a traditional</div><div>"legal approach." As such, Paul also works with client teams to create strategies with legislative, political,</div><div>administrative, judicial, and public education components. Paul also works with members of the Firm's</div><div>Business and Real Estate practice groups to address the diverse nature of environmental issues that come</div><div>into play in lending transactions and during mergers and acquisitions. His decades of experience help him</div><div>develop practical and workable solutions to challenges which can arise in the context of corporate</div><div>transactions.</div><div>
</div><div> Hon. Mark L. Shurtleff</div><div>Troutman Sanders LLP</div><div>th</div><div>401 9 Street, NW</div><div>Suite 1000</div><div>Washington, DC 20004-2134</div><div>Phone: 202.662.2071</div><div>mark.shurtleff@troutmansanders.com</div><div>
</div><div>Mark L. Shurtleff was re-elected as the Utah Attorney General in November 2008 with a strong 70% of the</div><div>vote; and is now serving as the first three term attorney general in Utah history. In his first 8 years in office,</div><div>the number of meth labs in Utah was reduced by 98% and he has talked to thousands of students and</div><div>parents about the dangers of drugs and led the effort to obtain millions of dollars in funding for education</div><div>and rehabilitation. His Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has received national recognition and</div><div>since Shurtleff has been in office, over 500 internet predators and child pornographers have been arrested</div><div>and convicted (with a 99% conviction rate.) The number of sex offenders in Utah prisons has increased by</div><div>more than 50%. In addition, Attorney General Shurtleff has toured the state and helped develop technology</div><div>to teach parents and children how to be safe online.</div><div>Shurtleff set up Utah's AMBER Alert, which became a model for the nation and has received national</div><div>awards, and he led the development of the first statewide Child Abduction Response Team. He developed</div><div>the first statewide identity theft database, the Identity Theft Reporting and Information System or IRIS. The</div><div>website is a one stop resource for victims to file online complaints with law enforcement, clear their credit</div><div>and learn how to better protect their identities. His office is now working hard to expand IRIS nationwide.</div><div>Attorney General Shurtleff was born and raised in Utah, graduating from Brighton High School, Brigham</div><div>Young University and the University Of Utah College of Law. He is the author of Am I Not a Man? The Dred</div><div>Scott Story, a historical novel about the man behind the landmark legal case. He served in the U.S. Navy</div><div>Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps as an Officer and Attorney, prosecuting hundreds of cases from 1985</div><div>to 1990. Shurtleff was a private practice trial lawyer in California from 1990 to 1993. He returned to Utah to</div><div>serve as an Assistant Attorney General from 1993 to 1997. During that time, Shurtleff was appointed Section</div><div>Chief for Civil Rights & Corrections and served as the lead attorney for public safety. From 1997 to 1998, he</div><div>was a Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County. He also served as a Small Claims Judge Pro Tem in</div><div>the Third District Court and a law enforcement and corrections instructor.</div><div>Attorney General Shurtleff is a Past Chairman of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG),</div><div>and has served several times on the Executive Committee for the National Association of Attorneys General</div><div>(NAAG). In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the America-Israel Friendship League, Fight</div><div>Crime: Invest in Kids Association and the Washington Legal Foundation. Locally, he serves on the Boards of</div><div>the Utah Prosecution Council, Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice, the Constitutional Defense</div><div>Council, Governorâ€™s Child & Family Cabinet Council and Utah Citizens Against Pornography.</div><div>Mentoring and volunteerism have been a major part of Shurtleffâ€™s life. He has been a Boy Scout leader for</div><div>22 years and in March 2007 he was honored with the Silver Beaver Award. He is an anti-drug lecturer in our</div><div>schools, an At-Risk Youth Mentor, and has coached youth basketball, soccer, volleyball and softball. He is</div><div>currently the Honorary Chair of the Utah Mentor Network and has personally mentored two elementary</div><div>school students. He has received numerous awards for protecting children including the 2004 "Champion of</div><div>Children" Award, the 2005 Utah "Protector of Children" Award, the 2005 "Guardian of the Light" Award, the</div><div>2006 Internet Safety Person of the Year by the Boys and Girls Clubs. He has also been honored as the</div><div>2006 "Humanitarian of the Year" by the Conference for Community and Justice, and the 2007 â€œStatesman of</div><div>the Yearâ€ by George Wythe College. In November 2006 he received the highest award given by Mexico to a</div><div>non-Mexican, The Order of the Aztec Eagle, presented to him by President Vicente Fox.</div><div>Most importantly, he and his wife, Mâ€™Liss, have been married 27 years and are the parents of five incredible</div><div>children and two grandchildren.</div><div>
</div><div> Hon. Wayne K. Stenehjem</div><div>Attorney General</div><div>State of North Dakota</div><div>600 E. Boulevard Ave.</div><div>Capitol Building</div><div>Bismarck, ND 58505</div><div>Phone: 701.328.2213</div><div>wstenehjem@nd.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem was born in Mohall, North Dakota. He graduated from the University of</div><div>North Dakota and received his law degree from the UND School of Law in 1977. He is married to Beth</div><div>Bakke Stenehjem and has a son, Andrew.</div><div>Stenehjem was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1976, serving for two terms until</div><div>his election to the ND Senate in 1980. He served for twenty years in the Senate until his election to the</div><div>Office of Attorney General. Stenehjem served on the Judiciary Committee throughout his tenure in the</div><div>Legislature, and was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-2000. He was elected</div><div>President Pro Tempore of the Senate for the 1999 Legislative Session. In January 2001, Stenehjem was</div><div>sworn in as the Stateâ€™s 29th Attorney General. He was reelected in 2004, 2006 and 2010.</div><div>Since taking office Wayne has:</div><div>â€¢</div><div>â€¢</div><div>â€¢</div><div>
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</div><div>Made drug enforcement a priority, proposing legislation to developing a drug enforcement initiative</div><div>which coordinates law enforcement, health and human service agencies, and as well as addiction</div><div>counseling, youth education, and stronger penalties for offenders.</div><div>Launched the state's sex offender website to provide parents and other concerned citizens with</div><div>access to information about the most dangerous sex offenders in the state.</div><div>Worked to enact and enforce legislation to curb methamphetamine (meth) use and addiction in the</div><div>state by restricting retail sales of certain products used to manufacture meth, to provide mandatory</div><div>treatment for drug offenders, and increase criminal penalties for drug offenders which has resulted</div><div>in a dramatic reduction in the production and use of meth in North Dakota.</div><div>Established the state's Do Not Call list, giving North Dakota consumers welcome relief from</div><div>unwanted telemarketing calls.</div><div>Introduced an online Identity Theft program, designed to provide North Dakota victims with "one</div><div>click" access to all the information and forms necessary to document and identity theft.</div><div>Launched the stateâ€™s â€œCold Case Investigationsâ€ squad to assist local law enforcement agencies</div><div>with unsolved missing person and homicide cases. The squad utilizes advances in forensics and</div><div>DNA technology and new investigative techniques to re-investigate evidence and explore new</div><div>leads.</div><div>Established, in 2010, the RX TAKE BACK Program, to provide a safe and secure way for residents</div><div>to dispose of unwanted medications at no cost. The disposal program accepts all over-the-counter</div><div>and prescription medications â€“ including controlled substances. The Take Back units, which are</div><div>similar to the needle disposal containers in hospital rooms but on a much larger scale, are located</div><div>in the lobby of local law enforcement agencies. The program is operated by the Attorney Generalâ€™s</div><div>office at no cost to the participating communities or the local law enforcement agencies. To date, it</div><div>is the nation's only ongoing, permanent, statewide program.</div><div>
</div><div>Attorney General Stenehjem is a member of numerous boards and commissions, including the Board of</div><div>University and School Lands, Industrial Commission (which oversees all state-owned industries including</div><div>the Bank of North Dakota and the State Mill and Elevator), Drug and Alcohol Commission (chair), Judicial</div><div>Council and Pardon Advisory Board.</div><div>He was named one of Ten Outstanding Legislators in the US by the Association of Government Employees,</div><div>and is the recipient of â€œChampion of the Peopleâ€™s Right to Knowâ€ award; SBAND Legislative Service Award;</div><div>â€œFriend of Psychologyâ€ award; the 2005 North Dakota Peace Officerâ€™s Associationâ€™s Lone Eagle Award, was</div><div>inducted into the Scandinavian American Hall of Fame in 2007, and was named the 2011 Bismarck State</div><div>College Alumnus of the Year.</div><div>
</div><div> Steve A. Thompson</div><div>Executive Director</div><div>Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality</div><div>707 N. Robinson</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73101</div><div>Phone: 405.702.7161</div><div>steve.thompson@deq.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Steve Thompson has a long history of state service, culminating with his current leadership of the Oklahoma</div><div>Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). He was appointed as Executive Director of the DEQ in July</div><div>2002, after having served as Deputy Executive Director since August 1993.</div><div>During his tenure with the DEQ, Mr. Thompson has been an active and consistent advocate for Oklahoma in</div><div>many national efforts. Especially notable is his ongoing leadership role in the Environmental Council of the</div><div>States (ECOS), the national organization of state environmental directors, for which he served as President</div><div>in 2004 and 2005. He currently serves on the National Environmental Finance Advisory Board.</div><div>Prior to his tenure at DEQ, Mr. Thompson held the positions of Director of the Oklahoma Department of</div><div>Pollution Control and Assistant Secretary of the Environment, as well as management positions in the</div><div>private sector.</div><div>In 2009, the Oklahoma Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration awarded Mr. Thompson</div><div>the â€œDistinguished Public Service Awardâ€, recognizing his high standards of excellence in public service and</div><div>his dedication to Oklahoma.</div><div>Mr. Thompson is a 1970 graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Business Administration.</div><div>He resides with his wife Linda, on their family farm, near El Reno, Oklahoma. He is a proud grandpa to</div><div>grandsons Sayer and Sutherlin and granddaughter Sheridan, who live with their parents, daughter Cydni</div><div>and son-in-law Brantley, in Locust Grove, Oklahoma.</div><div>
</div><div> William F. Whitsitt</div><div>Executive Vice President</div><div>Public Affairs</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue Suite 900</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102</div><div>Phone: 405.552.3556</div><div>Bill.Whitsitt@dvn.com</div><div>
</div><div>William F. Whitsitt was elected to the position of executive vice president Public Affairs in August 2008. Prior</div><div>to joining Devon, Whitsitt spent 11 years in Washington D.C. as a public affairs consultant representing a</div><div>broad range of clients including Devon. Whitsitt previously served as director of governmental affairs for one</div><div>of the worldâ€™s largest law firms and held the position of vice president of worldwide marketing and public</div><div>affairs for Oryx Energy Co. He has served as chief of staff to a U.S. Senator and as a legislative assistant in</div><div>the Senate and House of Representatives. Whitsitt holds a doctoral degree in Public Administration from</div><div>George Washington University.</div><div>
</div><div>Jacob A. Williams</div><div>VP Global Energy Analytics</div><div>Peabody Energy</div><div>701 Market St. Suite 800</div><div>St. Louis, MO 63021</div><div>Phone: 314.342.7569</div><div>jwilliams@peabodyenergy.com</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Williams joined Peabody Energy in 1999 and is currently Vice President of Global Energy Analytics</div><div>leading global analysis of energy and coal markets for Peabody. Previously, Jacob was Vice President of</div><div>Generation Development leading Peabodyâ€™s partnering efforts for the largest coal plant to be built in the U.S.</div><div>in 30 years; the 1,600 MW clean-coal Prairie State generation plant, which started up in 2012. He is past</div><div>Chairman of the Western Business Roundtableâ€™s Energy Committee and Electricity Subcommittee. He has</div><div>also been involved in various international, national and state level energy and transmission studies</div><div>including the 2011 and 2012 International Energy Agencyâ€™s World Energy Outlook, Western Governorâ€™s</div><div>transmission study, the Kentucky Energy Task Force and the Illinois Coal Task Force.</div><div>Prior to joining Peabody, Mr. Williams held various positions at Alliant Energy (formerly Wisconsin Power &</div><div>Light) in Power Marketing and Trading and Generation Planning. Mr. Williams has a BS in Electrical</div><div>Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1985 and a MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992.</div><div>
</div><div> Chris A. Wright</div><div>CEO</div><div>Liberty Resources</div><div>1200 17th Street</div><div>Suite 2050</div><div>Denver, CO 80202</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Chris Wright is the CEO Liberty Resources, a Bakken focussed E&P company. Chris is also the CEO of</div><div>Liberty Oilfield Services, a provider of hydraulic fracture stimulation services. He founded Pinnacle</div><div>Technologies in September 1992 and was CEO and Chairman for 14 years. Pinnacle developed monitoring</div><div>technologies to map and monitor the motion of fluid deep underground, primarily employed to map the</div><div>growth of hydraulic fractures. These technologies include microseismic, tiltmeter, fiber-optic, INSAR, and</div><div>ultra-high resolution GPS. Pinnacle's most significant achievement was to lead the innovation in fracturing</div><div>practices that led to the commercialization of shale gas production -- initially the Barnett Shale with Mitchell</div><div>Energy. Chris has consulted and taught courses on all six inhabited continents and authored or co-authored</div><div>over 60 technical papers and articles. He has received numerous industry awards and several U.S. patents.</div><div>Chris was the Chairman of Stroud Energy prior to its sale to Range Resources in 2006. Chris has served on</div><div>the board of directors of several companies, including TAS (industrial energy technology company), Travanti</div><div>Pharma (pharma device company), Kerogen Exploration, and PyraMax Ceramics (oilfield proppants).</div><div>Chris completed an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and then performed</div><div>graduate work in Electrical Engineering at both UC Berkeley and MIT.</div><div>
</div><div> Mason Attorneys General Education Program Advisory Boards</div><div>Attorneys General Advisory Board</div><div>Thurbert Baker</div><div>Ex Officio, Georgia</div><div>
</div><div>Ken Cuccinelli</div><div>Virginia</div><div>
</div><div>Doug Gansler</div><div>Maryland</div><div>
</div><div>Gary King</div><div>New Mexico</div><div>
</div><div>Chris Koster</div><div>Missouri</div><div>
</div><div>E. Scott Pruitt</div><div>Oklahoma</div><div>
</div><div>John Suthers</div><div>Colorado</div><div>
</div><div>Greg Zoeller</div><div>Indiana</div><div>
</div><div>Chief Deputies Advisory Council</div><div>Charles Butler</div><div>Delaware</div><div>
</div><div>Patricia Conners</div><div>Florida</div><div>
</div><div>Gerald Coyne</div><div>Rhode Island</div><div>
</div><div>Lucy Haynes</div><div>Tennessee</div><div>
</div><div>Brian Kane</div><div>Idaho</div><div>
</div><div>Jeffrey Milsteen</div><div>Georgia</div><div>
</div><div>Gary Secrest</div><div>Indiana</div><div>
</div><div> General Contact Information</div><div>Law & Economics Center</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8040</div><div>lec@gmu.edu</div><div>www.MasonLEC.org</div><div>
</div><div>Mason Attorneys General Education Program</div><div>agep@gmu.edu</div><div>www.MasonAGEP.org</div><div>
</div><div>The Skirvin Hilton</div><div>One Park Avenue</div><div>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102</div><div>Phone: 405.272.3040</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law</div><div>Executive Director</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8644</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Paige V. Butler</div><div>Associate Director</div><div>Director, Development</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8132</div><div>pbutler2@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Karen M. Czarnecki</div><div>Director, Education</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8388</div><div>kczarnec@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Jonathan R. Foltz</div><div>Manager, Attorneys General Education Program</div><div>Phone: 703.993.9964</div><div>Cell: 317.258.8742</div><div>jfoltz3@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>Mary C. Jones</div><div>Manager, Events</div><div>Phone: 703.993.8381</div><div>Cell: 202.689.5798</div><div>mjones34@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>www.MasonAGEP.org</div><div>
</div><div> Mason Attorneys General Education Program Schedule</div><div>2013</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Public Policy Conference on Privacy, Regulation, and Antitrust</div><div>Wednesday, January 16 â€“ Friday, January 18, 2013</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Third Annual Public Policy Institute on Financial Services</div><div>Wednesday, May 1 â€“ Friday, May 3, 2013</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Public Policy Institute on Counterfeiting and Piracy</div><div>Tuesday, May 7 â€“ Thursday, May 9, 2013</div><div>Mystic, CT</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Public Policy Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media</div><div>Tuesday, May 14 â€“ Thursday, May 16, 2013</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Public Policy Conference on the Law & Economics of Privacy and Data Security</div><div>Tuesday, June 18 â€“ Thursday, June 20, 2013</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>AGEP Economics Institute</div><div>Sunday, September 29 â€“ Wednesday, October 2, 2013</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>Apply online at www.MasonAGEP.org.</div><div>Questions? Contact Jon Foltz, Manager, AGEP at jfoltz3@gmu.edu or 703.993.9964.</div><div>
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</div><div>Jessica A Clark</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:10 PM</div><div>
</div><div>'To: B?i</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Proposal to Establish an Environmental Federalism Alliance at GMU LEC - CONFIDENTIAL</div><div>
</div><div>Attachments: Funding Prospectus ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERALISM ALLIANCE at GMU LEC 1-23?13</div><div>
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</div><div>Dear Bill and Lyndon,</div><div>
</div><div>It was a real pleasure to see you guys at General Pruitt's Summit. Thanks so</div><div>much for Devon's generous support. I hope that you found the Summit to be</div><div>valuable. Bill, your comments were certainly well received.</div><div>
</div><div>General Pruitt seemed very pleased with the work we accomplished during the</div><div>closed-door strategy session. Among other things, the AGs discussed the need for</div><div>an entity to provide a sustained public policy platform for research, outreach,</div><div>education, and coordination on the role of federalism with regards to energy</div><div>production and natural resource development. There is a strong need for a entity</div><div>to coordinate state AG reviews of perceived overreach of the Federal government</div><div>as well to help restore a balance with the States.</div><div>
</div><div>Please find attached a confidential draft of a proposal to establish such an</div><div>entity at the Law Economics Center. The Environmental Federalism Alliance,</div><div>which would be a bi-partisan effort, would involve an Information Clearinghouse,</div><div>an AG Working Group, AG Education Programs, Peer-Reviewed Research, and other</div><div>activities deemed beneficial to the protection of federalism, private property</div><div>rights, free and open markets, and the rule of law.</div><div>
</div><div>As a first step, I envision hiring an experienced attorney perhaps from an AG</div><div>office -- to direct this project. </div><div>
</div><div>I would appreciate your comments and suggestions. And, of course, I would </div><div>appreciate it if Devon would take a leadership role by a making a substantial</div><div>founding grant to get us up and running.</div><div>
</div><div>This is not an inexpensive endeavor. But, as you know, the stakes are high.</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>Best,</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and Executive Director, Law </div><div>Economics Center George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224?330?0540 (mobile)</div><div>
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</div><div>Swanson, Com</div><div>
</div><div>From: Spohn, Katie </div><div>Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:41 PM</div><div>To: Cookson, David;</div><div>
</div><div>clayton.eubanks@oag.ok.gov; hurdler.fox@gmail.com; nancy.korting@alaska.gov;</div><div>bgrant@law.ga.gov; Johnson, Blake;</div><div>kendrajones@arkansasag.gov; jeremy.knee@ago.mo.gov; manningp@michigan.gov;</div><div>pmcconkie@utah.gov; </div><div>solens@law.ga.gov;</div><div>ramirezt@ag.state.la.us; scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov;</div><div>delberta.pfeifer@ksag.org; sonneveldtd@michigan.gov; Spohn, Katie;</div><div>stjohnkm@doj.state.wi.us; wstenehjem?nd.gov; </div><div>saexeter@utah.gov; kturner@ago.state.al.us; Rich.Williams@state.sd.us;</div><div>mwood@ago.state.ms.us; patrick.wyrick@oag.ok.gov; npeterson@law.ga.gov; Swanson,</div><div>Cory; Jeff.Chanay@ ksag.org</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Federalism in Environmental Policy</div><div>
</div><div>Attachments: FEP Contact List.xlsx</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div>
</div><div>This message is in follow-up to the excellent Environmental Conference put on last week by George Mason University</div><div>and hosted by the Oklahoma Attorney General?s Of?ce. I trust you all made it home safely and hope you found the</div><div>information to be very useful. In order to continue our coordination of efforts regarding Federalism in Environmental</div><div>Policy, I am seeking input from each state who participated at the conference to con?rm have accurate contact</div><div>information for your state and that all appropriate members of your staff are included on communication regarding this</div><div>Issue.</div><div>
</div><div>If each state would con?rm the accuracy of the contact information for the individuals on the attached spreadsheet, I</div><div>would be very grateful. If you have any revisions or additions, please let me know. In addition, I will be reaching out to</div><div>other states that were not in attendance at the conference who have previously expressed an interest in this</div><div>
</div><div>issue. Once I have a completed list, I will proceed with sharing the list with the entire group.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you, everyone. I look forward to continuing to build upon the critical work accomplished at the conference last</div><div>week.</div><div>
</div><div>Katie Spohn</div><div>
</div><div>Deputy Attorney General</div><div>Nebraska Attorney General's Of?ce</div><div>(402) 471-2834</div><div>
</div><div>Email: katie.sgohn@nebraska.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Representations in this communication belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Attorney</div><div>General?s Of?ce. This electronic mail transmission may contain con?dential or privileged information. If you believe that</div><div>you have received the message in error, please notify the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without</div><div>copying or disclosing it.</div><div>
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</div><div>First Name</div><div>Michael</div><div>Kevin</div><div>Kendra</div><div>Bradford</div><div>John</div><div>Carlos</div><div>Britt</div><div>Sam</div><div>Nels</div><div>Jeff</div><div>Derek</div><div>Trey</div><div>Peter</div><div>Daniel</div><div>Jessica</div><div>Jeremy</div><div>Mary Jo</div><div>Tim</div><div>Corey</div><div>Wayne</div><div>Jon</div><div>David</div><div>Blake</div><div>Katie</div><div>Frederick</div><div>Tom</div><div>ClaytOn</div><div>Melissa</div><div>Scott</div><div>Patrick</div><div>Richard</div><div>Paul</div><div>John</div><div>Kevin</div><div>
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</div><div>Chief Deputy Attorney General</div><div>Assistant Attorney General</div><div>Chief Deputy Attorney General</div><div>Attorney General</div><div>
</div><div>Chief Deputy</div><div>
</div><div>Counsel for Legal Policy</div><div>Attorney General</div><div>
</div><div>Deputy Attorney General</div><div>
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</div><div>First Assistant Attorney General</div><div>
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</div><div>From: Cookson, David </div><div>Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:43 PM</div><div>To: kendraJones@arkansasaggov; charlesmoulton@arkansasag.gov; Swanson, Cory;</div><div>
</div><div>clayton.eubanks@oag.ok.gov; rnelissa.houston@oag.ok.gov; patrick.wyrick@oag.ok.gov;</div><div>abrasher@ago; rtambling@ago.state.al.us; Brad Phelps</div><div>
</div><div>Carol Isaacs Mattioli, Mark;</div><div>Turner, Kevin; tom.bates@oag.ok.gov; manningp@michigan.gov; Spohn, Katie; Johnson,</div><div>
</div><div>Blake</div><div>Subject: Federalism in Environmental Policy Proposal</div><div>Attachments: EPA </div><div>Follow Up Flag: Follow up</div><div>Flag Status: Completed</div><div>
</div><div>Communications Coordination Committee Members:</div><div>
</div><div>First of all, thank you to each of you for volunteering to serve on the Federalism in Environmental Policy (FEP)</div><div>Communication Coordination Committee.</div><div>
</div><div>The document attached to this email contains a non-exclusive list of EPA actions Nebraska considers to be of</div><div>particular importance to the State Attorneys General and their respective environmental and natural resources</div><div>agencies. The list is organized in terms of the items? temporal priority. We propose that working groups be</div><div>formed and each tasked with Speci?c action items.</div><div>
</div><div>Please review this list and provide feedback to the Committee including any additional issues you want to see</div><div>monitored and addressed, as well as proposing appropriate actions to be taken on each of the listed items. In an</div><div>effort to begin communicating with the entire State group as soon as practicable, please provide your feedback</div><div>by February 8, 2013. At that time, we would prOpose that an updated version of the attached document be</div><div>circulated to all State contacts on the listserv asking each to note the working groups in which they want to</div><div>participate.</div><div>
</div><div>We plan to contact George Mason University to inquire further about setting up a website on their server to act</div><div>as a clearinghouse as we begin to generate more content in the future. In addition to feedback on the attached</div><div>document, please provide any thoughts you may have regarding a clearinghouse and/or an arrangement with</div><div>George Mason University to provide support for that project.</div><div>
</div><div>David D. Cookson</div><div>
</div><div>Chief Deputy Attorney General</div><div>State of Nebraska</div><div>
</div><div>(402) 471?3812 work</div><div>
</div><div>(402) 430-4219 cell</div><div>
</div><div>Current Actions</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>1. Finding of Failure to Submit SIP for 2008 Ozone Standard</div><div>
</div><div>A. Issued for 28 states on January IS, 2013</div><div>
</div><div>B. Becomes effective on February I4, 2013</div><div>
</div><div>C. This issue may warrant a soft response. The EPA is obligated to update the 2003 Ozone</div><div>standard and has expressed their intention to make a signi?cant downward adjustment. This</div><div>places state agencies in a position where they have to commit resources to develop an</div><div>infrastructure to address the 2008 standard only to have to immediately begin developing a</div><div>revised SIP to address the new Ozone standard when it is issued later this year. Making this</div><div>practical reality more visible to lawmakers and the public may put pressure on the administration</div><div>to address these inef?ciencies.</div><div>
</div><div>2. Implementation of the 1-Hour Standard</div><div>
</div><div>A. Evaluation and designations of air quality control regions currently underway by State</div><div>agencies</div><div>
</div><div>B. EPA will review the process the state?s evaluations and will either approve said evaluations or</div><div>reject such evaluations and will provided the basis for that decision and will designate the</div><div>particular air quality control region as attainment or non-attainment.</div><div>
</div><div>C. There is also a potential dispute looming with environmental NGOs over the state?s use of</div><div>modeling, rather than monitoring, data.</div><div>
</div><div>D. AGs should determine where their States are at with regard to the implementation process</div><div>
</div><div>3. Potential Call? Based on Startup, Shutdown, Malfunction Exception</div><div>
</div><div>A. Environmental groups have petitioned for EPA to issue a SIP Call to 39 States whose </div><div>contain an SSM exception</div><div>
</div><div>B. States should be prepared to respond to the SIP Call when, and if, issued by EPA</div><div>
</div><div>C. States may consider revising their to conform to current EPA policy which allows for</div><div>enforcement discretion and affirmative defenses to be used in ascertaining penalties for excess</div><div>SSM emissions. Environmental want no form of SSM exemption to be allowed.</div><div>
</div><div>Future Actions</div><div>1. Greenhouse Gas Standards for New and Existing and/or Modifed Units</div><div>
</div><div>A. Final standard for new sources potentially issued in the next few months</div><div>
</div><div>B. Pr0posed standard for existing and/or modi?ed units will likely come at about the same time as</div><div>the ?nal standard for new sources</div><div>
</div><div>C. The real impact to states will come when GHGs from existing and modi?ed EGUs are</div><div>regulated. Any increase in emissions from an EGU will require the source to install NSPS-</div><div>compliant control, likely a very costly retro?t.</div><div>
</div><div>D. States should be prepared to respond to a lawsuit by Environmental NGO's when the final rule</div><div>for new sources is issued. If EPA maintains the distinction between ?new? and "modi?ed"</div><div>sources, as was done in the proposed rule, a challenge will undoubtedly be raised.</div><div>
</div><div>E. The GHG issues raised in 09-1322 are not likely to be reviewed by the Supreme Court, so it</div><div>looks like we are going to be seeing these new rules this year.</div><div>
</div><div>2. Revised Ozone NAAQS</div><div>
</div><div>A. EPA on a March 2013 deadline for revised standard</div><div>
</div><div>B. The current 8-hour standard of 75 parts per billion will be revised downward likely between</div><div>60-70 parts per billion. For Nebraska, a standard lower than 67 will cause attainment</div><div>problems in the eastern portion of the state.</div><div>
</div><div>C. The States will certainly want to submit comment on the proposed revision when it is issued.</div><div>Rather than leaving ourselves with 30 or 60 days to draft comments, work could begin now on</div><div>comments in anticipation of the rule.</div><div>
</div><div>3. Hydraulic Fracturing</div><div>
</div><div>A. Efforts at regulating hydraulic fracturing are ongoing at the federal, state, and local levels and</div><div>aim at various aspects of the process, i.e. air emissions, wastewater, groundwater contamination,</div><div>etc.</div><div>
</div><div>B. Each State?s Attorneys General should make themselves aware of the efforts that are occurring</div><div>at the state and local levels while monitoring the efforts being made at the federal level</div><div>
</div><div>4. Final Cooling Water Intake Structure Rule</div><div>
</div><div>A. June 27, 2013 deadline for final rule</div><div>
</div><div>B. The proposed rule?s finding that the best technology available to address impingement is close-</div><div>cycle cooling would require very costly, water intensive technology cooling towers).</div><div>
</div><div>C. The States should be prepared for the reality that the ?nal rule will look like the proposed rule</div><div>(with any modi?cation being that EPA chooses closed-cycle cooling as BTA to address</div><div>entrainment as well). The response will be a challenge to the ?nal rule in the Circuit Court of</div><div>Appeals.</div><div>
</div><div>5. Regulation of Coal Combustion Residuals Under RCRA</div><div>A. EPA is under pressure to treat CCR as hazardous waste but says review effort will take until</div><div>20l4</div><div>B. Treating CCR as hazardous waste would require very costly upgrades of current treatment</div><div>facilities, or the construction of new facilities. The States would have to determine how to deal</div><div>with the current CCR stores during the upgrade period.</div><div>C. Soft response is needed now. CRS is revising their December 5, 20l2 report on the issue.</div><div>Concern should be voiced to lawmakers.</div><div>
</div><div>6. Ef?uent Limitations for Steam-Generated EGUs</div><div>A. No real timeline on EPA's consideration of controls on the discharge from scrubbers</div><div>
</div><div>7. Revision of the Ef?uent Limitation Guideline for Power Plants</div><div>
</div><div>A. EPA will propose revisions to the current ELG by April 19, 2013</div><div>
</div><div>FEP Planning Committee June 27, 2013 Conference Call</div><div>
</div><div>Attendance: Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and West Viriginia</div><div>
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</div><div>Greenhouse Gas Standards for Existing and/or Modified Units</div><div>
</div><div>A. 2010 Settlement Agreement with States and Environmental Groups required GHG NSPS for both</div><div>new gn_d existing sources</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>B. April IS and 17, 20l3 Notices of Intent to Sue</div><div>l. 21-State coalition of A05 drafted response and request to be involved in settlement</div><div>discussions</div><div>C. Presidential Memorandum and Climate Action Plan June 25, 2013</div><div>I. NE, OK, and MI White Paper commenting on lack of authority to be used in</div><div>Washington DC will be circulated for joindcr early next week.</div><div>D. EPA Re-Pmposal of New Source NSPS</div><div>I. September 30, 20 I 3: will be circulating a comment letter for and state</div><div>
</div><div>environmental agencies to consider upon re-proposal.</div><div>
</div><div>CSAPR</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>A. SCOTUS granted cert June 24, 2013</div><div>1. Party States should be receiving an update from NE and TX in the very near future</div><div>
</div><div>II. Amicus effort: Likely to be lead by WV</div><div>
</div><div>Ef?uent Limitation Guideline for Power Plants 1* potential comment opportunity}</div><div>
</div><div>A. EPA released ELG on April l9, 20l3</div><div>
</div><div>I. Comments due August 6, 2013 (EPA-HQ-RCRA-2013-0209): Oklahoma will put</div><div>something together for circulation</div><div>
</div><div>PM 2.5 (potential amicus opportunity)</div><div>
</div><div>A. WildEarth Guardians sued EPA on May 15, 2013 over Utah and Idaho SIPs to force</div><div>implementation of the new 2012 standard under Subpart 4 as well NRDC v. EPA applies to all</div><div>particulate standards, notjust the 1997 version at issue in that case) (D. Nebraska will</div><div>observe and inform the states if an amicus opportunity arises. We do not want unfriendly</div><div>legal precedent established without an Opportunity to share our views on the issue.</div><div>
</div><div>Other Items to Be Addressed</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>A. EPA FOIA Request UpdateOklahoma received another denial of the fee waiver appeal when EPA</div><div>concluded that the waiver was moot because there was no proper FOIA request before the agency.</div><div>0K will be ?ling suit in the W.D. of Oklahoma in the near future. OK will cover the costs of</div><div>
</div><div>litigation and welcomes all states to participate who were parties to the original </div><div>request. Paul Seby will be helping OK with their efforts.</div><div>
</div><div>B. Center for Cooperative Federalism</div><div>
</div><div>Clayton is working on the application for a 50! organization</div><div>C. BLM-Fracking Rule: Clean Water Act Issue</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma is dra?ing a comment letter for circulation</div><div>D. EPA Authority over Non-Tribal Minor Sources on Reservation</div><div>
</div><div>Michigan is having issues with EPA asserting authority over non-tribal (minor) air emission</div><div>sources located on reservation and inquired as to whether other states were experiencing similar</div><div>issues. Oklahoma is litigating the issue right now with EPA.</div><div>
</div><div>Next Call: August 8, 2013 at 11:00 EDT. 10:00 CDT. 9:00 MDT.</div><div>
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</div><div>Frem: Ashley </div><div>
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</div><div>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2&13 9:61 AM</div><div>
</div><div>Te: Harder; Sheila</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Meeting</div><div>
</div><div>Hi Sheila,</div><div>
</div><div>I was hoping to set up a meeting with Mr. Whitsitt and General Pruitt here in</div><div>our effiee. I am looking at Fri?ay, June Elet. Our hopes are t0 have Leonard</div><div>Lee an? Paul Seby come in a3 well. If they are not able to fly in we will try</div><div>and make sure they can at the least be en a eenfereace call, The purpose ef</div><div>the meeting is to discuss the Center for Energy Independence? If yea eeuld</div><div>give me a few times that would werk en the Eiet then I will coordinate with</div><div>the ethere. I appreciate your help and leak forwar? te finally meeting you on</div><div>Fridayl</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ashley</div><div>
</div><div>Ashley Olmstead</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Assistant</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Qifice of attorney General</div><div>(405) 521.3921</div><div>
</div><div>313 NE 2lst Street</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahema City, OK 73105</div><div>
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</div><div>Good meeting -- and Congrats ageinf</div><div>Whitsitt, Bill to: melissa.houston@oag.ok.gov 06:1322013 01:12 9M</div><div>Co: ?Wright, Allen", ?Rockwood, Brent"</div><div>
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</div><div>Melissa </div><div>
</div><div>Pleese thank Scott for including me in the meeting today. think we got to a good place with respect to</div><div>the clearinghouse concept to assist A65 in addressing federalism issues.</div><div>
</div><div>Also, please pass along the attached article as an example of the specialized media treatment of today’s </div><div>excellent decision! </div><div>
</div><div>William F. Whitsitt, </div><div>
</div><div>Executive Vice President</div><div>Public Affairs</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy Corporation</div><div>
</div><div>333 West Sheridan Avenue Suite 900</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK 73102</div><div>
</div><div>405 552 3556 Direct</div><div>
</div><div>405 552 1484 Fax</div><div>
</div><div>405 830 3556 Mobile</div><div>Bill.Whitsitt@dvn.com</div><div>
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</div><div>Re: Meeting</div><div>Herder, She?a to: 07:28 PM</div><div>
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</div><div>Ashley,</div><div>
</div><div>That's great: I will get this on Bill?s calendar?</div><div>Can?t wait to meet you tomorrowE</div><div>
</div><div>Sheila</div><div>
</div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div>
</div><div>On Jun 6, 2013, at 4:44 EM, ?Ashley.01mstead@oag.ok.gov<</div><div>mailto Ashley <</div><div>wrote:</div><div>
</div><div>We can make 10am CST on June 13th work? we will meet here in our office. Paul</div><div>Seby will be joining us and we will conference in Leonard Leo.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks for your help and let me know if you need any other information.</div><div>
</div><div>Ashley</div><div>
</div><div>Ashley Olmstead</div><div>
</div><div>Executive Assistant</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma Office of Attorney General</div><div>(405) 521.3921</div><div>
</div><div>313 NE 2lst Street</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma City, OK ?3105</div><div>
</div><div>From: "Harder, Sheila? <</div><div>
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</div><div>Date: 06/06/2013 03:45 PM</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Meeting</div><div>
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</div><div>Sn June 13th, the only time Bill is not available is 10:3Gem 2pm. If</div><div>
</div><div>the meeting only laete? an hour we oeald Schedule the call at 18:00em, if that</div><div>
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</div><div>oenference cell item Devon at 13:3@em? 8e juet hee guest seeing ereue?</div><div>1:33am and will nee? to be here in time to greet them.</div><div>
</div><div>The June 14th times ?id not work for him.</div><div>
</div><div>Bill is available en Tuesday, June 18th, at ez??pm and he looks wi?e open for</div><div>Monday; June Zethg</div><div>
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</div><div>AG Miller?s Memo .  . </div><div>endrewpmiiler to: Scettpruitt 04f23f2013 03:06 Pivi</div><div>CC: Ashleyelmstead. tombates, </div><div>
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</div><div>General Pruitt:</div><div>in response to Jim McPherson?s e-mail to you of last week allow me to make the follewing</div><div>observations as a longstanding friend of NAAG:</div><div>1. "Andy expressed surprise at many of the underlying facts he was net aware of but</div><div>declined to modify his memo in light of those facts.? ?i have no idea what Jim can</div><div>possibly be talking about. i gave him a copy of my September 21, 2012, memo to you (see</div><div>
</div><div>attached) on Monday, April 15, 2013. We did not discuss it then or since. i had told Jim of</div><div>
</div><div>its existence when we met on March 25th, but he did not view it at that time. All relevant</div><div>facts, whether underlying or not, are known or knowable to any serious observer of</div><div>NAAG. Notwithstanding Jim?s assertion, deny that he or anyone else ever requested me</div><div>to ?modify [my] memo? in any respect. in light of the memo?s date of origin, it was long</div><div>gone by March 2013. </div><div>
</div><div>2. "What Andy fails to explain is how we got t0 the current membership [of the</div><div>Executive Committee). He suggests some political party bias  which couldn?t be further</div><div>from the truth.? i stand by my statement as to the political imbalance on the Executive</div><div>Committee. indeed, having forwarded my memo before Rob McKenna stepped down, the</div><div>ratio of 3?s to R?s is even worse now: 9 0?5 to 3 R?s. For an organization which claims to be</div><div>internaiiy bi?partisan, i find this unfortunate. The ratio could have been improved</div><div>somewhat if leadership had seen fit (1) to arrange for an to be elected Chair of</div><div>the Mission Foundation?s Board and (2) to appoint 1 and 2 R?s to the Executive</div><div>Committee. These moves would have resulted in a current ratio of 7 D?s to 5 R?s. </div><div>respectfully submit that the present imbalance is not predestined.</div><div>3. ?Andy?s suggestion at (sic) some ?departure from principle? is simply net true.? My</div><div>"departure from principle? point is clearly correct regarding the past practice of having</div><div>"each NAAG Committee headed by tva era?chairs, one each party.? This even </div><div>handedness, when implemented by President Steve Carter, represented a</div><div>positive step toward the achievement of institutional balance. i regret: that Steve?s</div><div>principle has been abandened. As to Committee membership there has never been a</div><div>parallel principie, nor de l, as an interested observer, advecate one. 3 d0 believe, however,</div><div>that leadership should encaurage frem both parties. to vpiunteer tn serve on</div><div>each ef its Cemmittees. This wepid avoid having some Committees populated by of</div><div>only one party, as is currentiy the case.</div><div>
</div><div>ii. ?Andy?s reference to Ms. Milliken is very unfair and Since the ?lore? bf</div><div>peiitical partisanship, which Jim refers te, is an accurate depiction of reality at</div><div>that time, it is abserd te characterize my reference as either ?unfair? er "effensiire?. As</div><div>yet: knew the perceived i?disrespect?i fer ii e?is and their views ieci ta the fermetien at</div><div>ReSe; during the sarne peried, seine threatened withdraw their States</div><div>cernpieteie frees in resets. i had beperi teat, weir Chris; depertare, aegis:</div><div>
</div><div>would move beyond the contentiousness nfsuch internal divisions When prepared my</div><div>mama, however, i was struck by how easy it was to confirm my sense cl continuing</div><div>partlsan imbalance. Should it relied an ongoing unhappiness by R's with NAAG, such</div><div>disenchantment is indeed regrettable,</div><div>
</div><div>The facts I reported to you in my memo are mathematical in nature and cannot be dismissed</div><div>by repetitive denials of their existence. i had hoped that NAAG's leadership, rather than</div><div>viewing my memo as "misguided", "divisive" and "unhelpful", to use Jim's words, would act</div><div>affirmatively to address the challenge I it appears imm Jim's reaction that I may be</div><div>disappointed ll'l this regard, For some one who for more than 40 years has sought to help</div><div>NAAG protect its institutional integrity, this IS an untoward turn ofevents, it reminds me of</div><div>the Child who was chided for suggesting correctly that the Emperor had no clothes.</div><div>
</div><div>I would be pleased to discuss this matter with you and Jim further should either of you wish</div><div>to do so.</div><div>
</div><div>Andy</div><div>Andrew P, Miller</div><div>
</div><div>Washington, DC 20007</div><div>
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</div><div>original email to S. 972142 7 4723vl3idoa</div><div>
</div><div>From: Jessica A Clark</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:41 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: 'rhastie@hunton.com'</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Law Economics Center: Initiative for Energy the Environment</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Mr. Hastie,</div><div>
</div><div>As a follow?up to the message Henry left for you this morning, he asked me to send you a copy of the</div><div>letter we sent this summer to Mr. Moor (attached), as well as links to our 2012₂₀₁₃ Annual Report and</div><div>to our new lnitiative for Energy and the Environment. The initiative link includes the Funding Prospectus</div><div>as well as a video of our first Initiative event a preview of the Environmental and Energy Issues coming</div><div>before the Supreme Court in 2013-2014.</div><div>
</div><div>Henry looks forward to catching up with you soon.</div><div>
</div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jessica</div><div>
</div><div>Jessica A. Clark Assistant Director, Development Law Economics Center</div><div>George Mason University School of Law I 3301 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>Direct: 703-993?8051 Main: 703?993-8040 Fax: 703-993?8181</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Faulk</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry Butter</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:09 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Karl R. Moor (kmoor@southernco.com)</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: sumitche@southernco.com; Richard Faulk; Jessica A Clark; Roderick B. Hastie</div><div>(rhastie@hunton.com)</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: ANY CHANCE WE CAN GET TOGETHER IN WASHINGTON NEXT New Initiative</div><div>for Energy and the Environment e? George Mason Law 8L Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>Attachments: Mason LEC FY2013 Annual Report 8L Energy Request to Moor of Southern</div><div>
</div><div>8-20?2013pdf</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Karl,</div><div>
</div><div>I hope you are doing well. Rick Faulk and i would appreciate the opportunity to visit with you about our initiative for</div><div>Energy and the Environment.</div><div>
</div><div>I understand that you plan to be in Washington next week for an Energy Conference. 00 you have any gaps in your</div><div>schedule when Rick and I can meet with you?</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>Best,</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and</div><div>Executive Director, Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224?330-0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:09 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Jessica A Clark</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: New Initiative for Energy and the Environment -- George Mason Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Ka rl,</div><div>
</div><div>I hope you are doing well. i recently send you some information about the LEC's new Initiative for Energy and the</div><div>Environment. I understand you have been traveling a iot, so for your convenience lam attached a copy of my cover</div><div>letter. The supporting documents regarding the Initiative for Energy the Environment, as well as an electronic version</div><div>of our Annual Report may be found he_r_e.</div><div>
</div><div>I look forward to discussing this project at your earliest convenience.</div><div>83</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Hastie, Roderick </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 4:14 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Jessica A Clark</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler; Stone, Scott J.</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Law Economics Center: Initiative for Energy the Environment - Privileged </div><div>Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Privileqed Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Yes, we will see you tomorrow at 10:45 AM. Please proceed to the 9th floor reception</div><div>area of Hunton Williams 2002 PA Ave, NW.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you.</div><div>
</div><div>Rod Hastie</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Jessica A Clark </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 4:44 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Hastie, Roderick</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Law Economics Center: Initiative for Energy the Environment</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Mr. Hastie,</div><div>
</div><div>89</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Faulk</div><div>
</div><div>From: Rick Faulk </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:53 AM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Fwd: RAGA in Charleston Privileged 8L Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Karl's absence is a disappointment but this is a "target rich" environment. i will work hard to open doors for us. There</div><div>are lots of corporate members here.</div><div>
</div><div>I have dinner with the AGs from Georgia and South Dakota tonight. A few other Capital Club members are also invited</div><div>but I don't know who they will be.</div><div>
</div><div>Rick</div><div>
</div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div>
</div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div>From: "Hastie, Roderick" </div><div>Date: November 10, 2013 at 11:34:02 AM EST</div><div>To: </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: RAGA in Charleston - Privileged Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Rick:</div><div>
</div><div>1 have been made aware that due to a pressing business matter Karl Moor will now not be at the RAGA</div><div>meeting.</div><div>
</div><div>lam around and can catch up anytime over the next two days.</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Rod</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Richard Faulk </div><div>Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:13 AM</div><div>To: Karl Moor </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Hastie, Roderick; Henry Butler </div><div>Subject: Re: RAGA in Charleston</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Karl,</div><div>As Henry Butler mentioned in the email below, I am attending the RAGA meeting in Charleston and I</div><div>arrived this morning. I will be here throughout the meeting and will be attending a number of Capital</div><div>
</div><div>Club events, including today's luncheon.</div><div>
</div><div>I'd like to meet you at some point and introduce myself. is there a convenient opportunity when might</div><div>do so? Please let me know.</div><div>
</div><div>74</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 1:26 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: 'scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov'</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Richard Faulk; Jeffrey Smith; 'Melissa McLawhorn Houston'</div><div>Subject: INVITATION TO SPEAK: Public Policy Conference on Energy and the Environment, George Mason Law School,</div><div>Arlington, Virginia, Monday, April 7, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Scott,</div><div>Happy New Year! I hope you are doing well.</div><div>
</div><div>After last year?s successful Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels, the Mason Law 8; Economics Center started</div><div>making plans to launch an Initiative for Energy and the Environment. Richard Faulk, formerly of Gardere in Houston, joined us</div><div>in July to lead this effort. You may recall that Rick participated in your OKC summit. Here?s some more information about the</div><div>Initiative. </div><div>
</div><div>We're putting together Public Policy Conference on ?Energy and the Environment: Old Fuels, New Technologies, and Market</div><div>Dynamics? to be held at George Mason Law School in Arlington, Virginia on Monday, April 7. I am writing to invite you to</div><div>participate in the conference. And, yes, I am aware that NAAG is organizing an energy conference in Arkansas for the next day.</div><div>Needless to say, we’re a different breed.</div><div>
</div><div>The target audience of our conferences is the Washington public policy community plus senior staff from state AG offices. We</div><div>will subsidize attendance of AGs and their senior staff. Press coverage will be substantial. All sessions will be live webcast and</div><div>then posted on our website for future viewing.</div><div>
</div><div>Topics include:</div><div>
</div><div>a. Keynote Opening Address on "The Future of Fossil Fuels in the Frank Wolek, Professor of Economics and</div><div>Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University</div><div>
</div><div>b. Life after the War on Coal: Clean Coal Technology, Carbon Sequestration, and Exportation ofCoal</div><div>
</div><div>c. Hydraulic Fracturing: Oil and Gas Industry Dynamics</div><div>
</div><div>d. Who should regulate hydraulic fracturing?</div><div>
</div><div>e. Roundtable Discussion: Collateral Damage in the War on Carbon.</div><div>
</div><div>I would like for you to participate in the Roundtable Discussion: Collateral Damage in the War on Carbon: Jobs and the</div><div>Economy? Free Trade? Federalism? The Rule ofLaw? Public Health: Wealthier is Healthier? Owners of Natural Resources?</div><div>Native Americans? World Peace? The Environment? The Roundtable will run from 4:00 to 5:30 -</div><div>
</div><div>Rick Faulk will moderate the panel. We would have you be the first speaker where you would have 15 minutes to issue "the</div><div>indictment on carbon war crimes." OK, that?s a little over the top and not for public consumption, but it would be a nice</div><div>
</div><div>platform for you to state your views on the what has been coming out ofWashington.</div><div>
</div><div>I hope you can join us for what promises to be an important public policy event.</div><div>
</div><div>From: Katie.Dark@oaq.ok.qov </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:32 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Oklahoma Attorney General to speak at Public Policy Conference</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Butler,</div><div>
</div><div>I wanted to confirm Attorney General Scott Pruitt for the Public Policy conference on Energy and the Environment at the</div><div>George Mason Law School in Arlington Virginia on Monday, April 7th, 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>The Attorney General looks forward to speaking on the panel concerning Life after the War on Coal.</div><div>
</div><div>Please let me know if you need anything from me or if you have any other information concerning scheduling or travel. We</div><div>look forward to this event.</div><div>
</div><div>Please don't hesitate to contact me.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks!</div><div>
</div><div>Katie Dark</div><div>Constituent Services Coordinator</div><div>Office of the Attorney General</div><div>State of Oklahoma</div><div>(405) 522-4400</div><div>katie.dark@oaq.ok.qov</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry N. Butler 7</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 5:21 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Karl R. Moor (kmoor@southernco.com)</div><div>Cc: Richard Fauik; Jessica A Clark </div><div>
</div><div>Subject: INVITATION TO GIVE KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Mason Conference on Energy and the Environment: Old Fuels, New</div><div>Technologies, and Market Dynamics, April 7. 2014 </div><div>
</div><div>Dear Kari,</div><div>Happy New Year! I hope you are doing weli.</div><div>
</div><div>We come across several of Southern?s energy ads recently. i?m impressed with the message about the need for a</div><div>balanced approach to energy policy. I am writing to invite you (or another Southern spokesperson) to give the Keynote</div><div>Luncheon Address at a conference that is being organized by our new initiative for Energy and the Environment. [For</div><div>more information about the initiative, please see</div><div>
</div><div>On Monday, April 7, we will host a Public Policy Conference on "Energy and the Environment: Old Fuels, New</div><div>Technologies, and Market Dynamics.?</div><div>
</div><div>The target audience is the Washington public policy community plus senior staff from state AG offices. We will subsidize</div><div>attendance of A65 and their senior staff. We anticipate substa ntiai press coverage. All sessions will be live webcast and</div><div>then posted on our website for future viewing.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Panel topics include:</div><div>
</div><div>a. Keynote Opening Address on "The Future of Fossil Fuels in the Frank Wolek, Professor of Economics and</div><div>Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University</div><div>
</div><div>Life after the War on Coal: Clean Coal Technology, Carbon Sequestration, and Exportation of Coal</div><div>
</div><div>Hydraulic Fracturing: 'Oil and Gas Industry Dynamics</div><div>
</div><div>Luncheon Keynote Address, KARL MOOR OR SOUTHERN REPRESENTATIVE</div><div>
</div><div>Who should regulate hydraulic fracturing?</div><div>
</div><div>Roundtable Discussion: Collateral Damage in the War on Carbon.</div><div>
</div><div>Thomps-</div><div>
</div><div>I believe that Southern?s message will resonate with a serious policy audience. But, they need to hear it again and.</div><div>again. As one of my mentors used to say, "It is only through constant and varied reiteration that reluctant minds come</div><div>to accept difficult concepts.?</div><div>
</div><div>hope you can join us for what promises to be an important public policy event.</div><div>There will be a dinner that evening for speakers and A65.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you for your consideration.</div><div>
</div><div>Best, A</div><div>
</div><div>Henry</div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and</div><div>Executive Director, Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703-993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224-330-0540 (mobile)</div><div>
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</div><div>
</div><div>From: Jeffrey Smith</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:17 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: kmoor@southernco.com</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry Butler; sumitche@southernco.com</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Con?rmation of Participation: Energy the Environment: Old Fuels, New Technologies, and Market Dynamics,</div><div>
</div><div>April 7, 2014</div><div>Dear Karl:</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you for agreeing to participate in the upcoming LEC Public Policy Conference on Energy the</div><div>Environment: Old Fuels, New Technologies, and Market Dynamics. This email will summarize your</div><div>participation.</div><div>
</div><div>You have agreed to participate in the following session:</div><div>
</div><div>1. You will give the Luncheon Address at an LEC Public Policy Conference on Monday, April 7, 2014 at</div><div>George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, VA. You will also attend a dinner for speakers and</div><div>invited Attorneys General and their senior staff on the evening of Sunday, April 6, 2014. Your topic for your</div><div>address is "Fueling America's Economy and will be held during the luncheon from 12:30 to 1:40 pm. You</div><div>should be prepared to speak for approximately 15 minutes and to allow for some questions from the audience.</div><div>
</div><div>The LEC will book and pay for your hotel room on the night of Sunday, April 6. Please let us know if you will</div><div>need any additional nights.</div><div>
</div><div>Please reSpond and con?rm that this email accurately re?ects your participation. Please also let me know if you</div><div>have any questions. We are honored by your participation in this Conference and look forward to seeing you</div><div>soon.</div><div>
</div><div>Best,</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and</div><div>Executive Director; Law Economics Center</div><div>
</div><div>George Mason University Schooi of Law</div><div>
</div><div>3301 Fairfax Drive</div><div>
</div><div>Arlington, VA 22201</div><div>
</div><div>hnbutler@gmu.edu</div><div>
</div><div>703?993?8644</div><div>
</div><div>224?330-0540 (mobile)</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Mitchell,?Susan Camille </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 4:31 PM</div><div>To: Henry Butler</div><div>Subject: Invoice</div><div>
</div><div>Hi Henry,</div><div>
</div><div>Good to speak with you earlier today. Yes, $30k is correct for the invoice. Please send to me</div><div>at your earliest convenience so I may process. -</div><div>
</div><div>Regards,</div><div>
</div><div>Susan</div><div>
</div><div>Susan Mitchell, MSEM Southern Company Services</div><div>Executive Secretary to Karl R. Moor, SVP Chief Environmental Counsel</div><div>and D. Wayne Moore, VP Operations Compliance Officer</div><div>
</div><div>Southern Company Operations</div><div>office: 205.257.4676 mobile: 205.440.9153</div><div>
</div><div>fax: 205.257.2027 I sumitcheroutherncocom</div><div>
</div><div>From: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:21 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: jha5@case.edu; jon.bargas@dvn.com; dan.barron@arlp.com; jessica.blome@ago.mo.gov;</div><div>wendy.brooks@prenergy.com; bbrownell@hunton.com; anita.scheuler@nebraska.gov; </div><div>Henry Butler; cason.carter@arlp.com; Jeff.Chanay@ksag.org; david.cookson@nebraska.gov;</div><div>ddonohue@wnj.com; reminger@cleancoalusa.org; Clayton.eubanks@oag.ok.gov;</div><div>Richard Faulk; Jonathan Foltz; njfrancisco@jonesday.com; nancy.korting@alaska.gov;</div><div>bgrant@law.ga.gov; harold.hamm@clr.com; rhastie@hunton.com;</div><div>melissa.houston@oag.ok.gov; blake.johnson@nebraska.gov; Mary Jones; kendra.jones@arkansasag.gov;</div><div>jeremy.knee@ago.mo.gov; mimi.larsen@moyewhite.com; sarah.lenti@gmail.com;</div><div>jamie.maddy@chk.com; manningp@michigan.gov; rmartella?sidley.com; pmcconkie@utah.gov; cmcgill@aga.org;</div><div>andrewpmiller?verizon.net; michael.ming@doe.ok.gov; krmoor@southernco.com; Dorysamoore@marathonoil.com;</div><div>knathanson@crowell.com; </div><div>solens@law.ga.gov; mourada@cleancoalusa.org; rpaduchik@cleancoalusa.org; </div><div>ramirezt@ag.state.la.us; scott.pruitt@oag.ok.gov; drivkin@bakerlaw.com; Brent.Rockwood@dvn.com; krogers@aga.org;</div><div>masagsve?nd.gov; delberta.pfeifer@ksag.org; paul.seby@moyewhite.com; rshelby@aga.org;</div><div>tskinner@jonesday.com; sonneveldtd@michigan.gov; katie.spohn@nebraska.gov;</div><div>stjohnkm@doj.state.wi.us; wstenehjem@nd.gov; sstone@hunton.com; Terri.Connell@state.co.us; saexeter@utah.gov;</div><div>lyndon.taylor@dvn.com; steve.thompson@deq.ok.gov; mturpen@riggsabney.com;</div><div>bill.whitsitt@dvn.com; Rich.Williams@state.sd.us; jwilliams@peabodyenergy.com; mwood@ago.state.rns.us;</div><div>allen.wright@dvn.com; patrick.wyrick@oag.ok.gov</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Colleen Cherico; Karen Czarnecki; Jeffrey Smith</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: INVITATION Public Policy Conference on Energy and the Environment, George Mason Law School, Arlington,</div><div>Virginia, Monday, April 7, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Friends,</div><div>
</div><div>After General Pruitt's successful January 2013 Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels in Oklahoma City, the Mason Law Economics</div><div>Center started making plans to launch an initiative for Energy and the Environment. Richard Faulk, formerly of Gardere in Houston, joined us in July</div><div>to lead this effort. You may recall that Rick participated in the OKC summit. Here's some more information about the Initiative.</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: Hastie, Roderick </div><div>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 7:00 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: John Barnes</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Constitutional White Paper ConFidential</div><div>
</div><div>Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Henry:</div><div>
</div><div>I just got off the phone with General Fox. He has agreed to be your luncheon speaker on April</div><div>
</div><div>7. The topic will cover the issue that executive branch agencies can only exercise the authority</div><div>delegated to them by the Congress. Thus, the President’s Climate Action Plan created no new legal</div><div>rights or obligations. He will speak with John to further refine the speech. They will need to know the</div><div>details of how long he has </div><div>
</div><div>He will not. be delivering a white paper, but only give a speech.</div><div>
</div><div>Hi Rod,</div><div>
</div><div>Yesterday aftemoonl gave Tim the materials you sent me. He has a packed schedule today so I'm not sure if</div><div>he's had a chance to read them yet. I will connect with him as soon as I can today.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>
</div><div>John</div><div>
</div><div>On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Hastie, Roderick  wrote: .</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>John;</div><div>
</div><div>lam here all day and can speak about this effort. The paper can certainly be modified should General Fox so desire.</div><div>Let me know if we can speak today.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Rod Hastie</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: John Barnes </div><div>Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:17 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Hastie, Roderick</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Constitutional White Paper Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you!</div><div>
</div><div>On March 27, 2014 3:10:52 PM MDT, "Hastie, Roderick"  wrote:</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>John:</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you for speaking with me about the President?s Climate Action Plan. As I mentioned, there is a</div><div>need for a respected legal voice from the States to be heard that the ?Plan? in and of itself does not</div><div>
</div><div>carry the weight of law. Put another way, the Climate Action Plan is merely the President?s preferred</div><div>climate policy and carries no independent force of law.</div><div>
</div><div>General Fox last September joined with several other States in issuing a paper that stressed the</div><div>limits to authority, and the role of the States, when seeking to regulate existing power</div><div>
</div><div>plants. This paper had a real impact on the policy debate in Washington and was viewed as a ?shot</div><div>across the bow?. However, we have seen that the Climate Action Plan?s stringent goals </div><div>notwithstanding the legal constraints limiting EPA action noted by the Attorneys General last</div><div>September have been cited in several state regulatory proceedings as if they have, or will have,</div><div>force of law. We can provide several example of where this is happening.</div><div>
</div><div>I am attaching for your consideration a draft white paper along with talking points which could be</div><div>delivered by General Fox in conjunction with his appearance at the George Mason Public Policy</div><div>Conference. This paper could be posted on the Mason web-site and separately delivered to the</div><div>EPA. We envision it being used in many public policy circles as this debate continues.</div><div>
</div><div>I do believe this of the style and tone of General Fox. As I know time is short, I would be glad to</div><div>discuss this effort with him over the phone.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you.</div><div>
</div><div>Rod Hastie</div><div>
</div><div>Roderick B. Hastie</div><div>Senior Director Governmental Relations</div><div>rhastie@hunton.com</div><div>
</div><div>Hunton Williams LLP</div><div>
</div><div>2200 Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, DC 20037</div><div>
</div><div>Direct: 202.955.1937</div><div>
</div><div>Fax: 202.828.3715</div><div>
</div><div>
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</div><div>From: Hastie, Roderick </div><div>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 4:18 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: John Barnes</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Henry N. Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: RE: Constitutional White Paper - Con?dential</div><div>
</div><div>Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>John:</div><div>
</div><div>Great. I will stand by.</div><div>
</div><div>We certainly think it will be a win?win for the April 7 program and for General Fox. it can also be</div><div>edited to reflect his style and thoughts.</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Rod</div><div>
</div><div>From: John Barnes </div><div>Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 3:39 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Hastie, Roderick</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Constitutional White Paper - Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>33</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Faulk</div><div>
</div><div>From: Hastie, Roderick </div><div>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 5:23 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler</div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Richard Faulk; Jeffrey Smith</div><div>
</div><div>Subject: Re: Constitutional White Paper Confidential</div><div>
</div><div>I've got two possible suggestions:</div><div>"Is the Climate Action Plan the Law?"</div><div>and the Separation of Powers?</div><div>
</div><div>Rod</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>From: John Barnes </div><div>
</div><div>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 04:38 PM</div><div>
</div><div>To: Henry Butler </div><div>
</div><div>Cc: Hastie, Roderick; Richard Fauik Jeffrey Smith </div><div>Subject: Re: Constitutional White Paper - Con?dential</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks for the info. I'm working with AG Fox on a speech title and will get back to you ASAP.</div><div>
</div><div>Regards,</div><div>John</div><div>
</div><div>On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Henry Butler  wrote:</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>John,</div><div>
</div><div>Tim should plan for 20?30 minutes.</div><div>
</div><div>How are you doing on coming up with a title?</div><div>
</div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
</div><div>Best,</div><div>
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</div><div>Event Date. Monday. April 7? to Monday. April 1" 201-5.</div><div>
</div><div>Location: George Mason University School of Law. SSDI Fairfax Drive Arlington.</div><div>?v'irginia 22201</div><div>
</div><div>Program Description: The Law Economics Center through LEG Initiative for</div><div>Energy and the Environment hosted a public policy conference on "Dld Fuels. New</div><div>Technologies. and Marl-tat Dynamics." which examined the dynamics between</div><div>environmental issues and the energy marltet. Panels addressed clean coal</div><div>technology. carbon sequestration the future direction of the oil and gas industry.</div><div>and the regulation of hydraulic fracturing. Keynote speal-ters included FranI-t WolaI-t</div><div>of Stanford University who discussed. "The Role of Fossil Fuels in the Global</div><div>Energy Future" and Attomey General Tim Fox of Montana who gave the luncheon</div><div>address where he discussed federal energy regulation and obstacles to natural</div><div>res ourc development.</div><div>
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</div><div>HETNGTE ADDRESS: ROLE IDF FIDSSIL FUELS IN THE GLGBAL</div><div>ENERGY </div><div>
</div><div>Franlt A. Wolalt. ?v'tlorl-zing Professor of Commodity Price Studies</div><div>and Director Program on Energy Et Sustainable Development. Stanford</div><div>University</div><div>
</div><div>LIFE AFTER THE WAR GN CDAL: CLEAN ICGAL CARBGN</div><div>SEGUESTRATIDN. AND EIPGRTATIGN GF CGAL</div><div>
</div><div>Paul Bailey, Senior ?v'ice President for Federal Affairs and Policy American</div><div>Goalition for Clean Goal Electricity</div><div>
</div><div>Jacob A. Williams, ?v'ice President. Global Energy Analytics Peabody</div><div>Energy</div><div>
</div><div>Felice Stadler. Senior Director Glimate 3: Energy Program. National</div><div>Wildlife Federation</div><div>
</div><div>Moderator: Richard G. Faulk, Senior Director. Energy and the</div><div>Environment Law EL Economics Genter</div><div>
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</div><div>John A. Arrell, Jr., Manager. Market Development and New Products. ATH</div><div>Defense Group. Missile Products Division</div><div>
</div><div>Moderator: Henrv N. Butler. George Mason University Foundation</div><div>Professor of Law and Executive Director Law Et Economics Center. George</div><div>Mason University School of Law</div><div>
</div><div>LUNCHEGN ADDRESS: AIR AND THE </div><div>
</div><div>The Honorable Timothy E. Fox, Attomey General of Montana</div><div>
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</div><div>Thomas W. Merrill. Ghades Evans Hughes Professor. Columbia Law</div><div>School</div><div>
</div><div>Michael L. Hrancer, Partner BIank and Rome LLP</div><div>
</div><div>Sharon Buccino. Director. Land and Wildlife Program. Natural Resources</div><div>Defense Council</div><div>
</div><div>Moderator: Richard D. Faullt</div><div>
</div><div>RGUNDTABLE DISEUSSIGN: EGLLATERAL DAMAGE IN THE WAR DN</div><div>CARBGN</div><div>
</div><div>Jobs and the Economy? Free Trade? Federalism? The Rule of Law?</div><div>Public Health: Wealthier i5 Healithier? Dwners of Natural Resources?</div><div>Native Americans? World Peace? The Environment?</div><div>
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</div><div>Frank A. Wolalt. Holbroolt 1v'v'orI-ung Professor of Commodity Price Studies</div><div>and Director Program on Energy EL Sustainable Development. Stanford</div><div>University</div><div>
</div><div>Moderator: Henry N. Butler</div><div>
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</div><div>To: 'Hastie, Roderick'; Richard Faulk</div><div>
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</div><div>The conference yesterday was great. I see the entire length of the event is now on-line. is there any</div><div>way to parse out the clip of General Fox giving the luncheon address?</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you.</div><div>
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</div><div>Marking the anniversary of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2014 proposal of the Clean Power Plan, Americans United for Change released a new report Thursday. The report exposes behind the scenes coordination and details the depths of donations from polluters and energy interests who have funded a lawsuit against the EPA’s plan using Republican Attorneys General from around the country as their high-priced legal team.</div><div>
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</div><div>The report, Polluter Impunity, is part of Americans United for Change’s Polluters Over People campaign and shows how deeply tied Republican Attorneys General are to industries like coal and oil. A December 2014 New York Times exposé revealed an “unprecedented, secretive alliance” and coordination between Big Oil and Republican Attorneys General against environmental safeguards, including one Attorney General literally copying and pasting a letter drafted by energy lobbyists and sending it to the EPA on official letterhead.</div><div>
</div><div>The report shows that Republican Attorneys General pockets have been lined by the dirty energy interests for whom they’ve advocated. Since 2014, the dirty energy sector and big polluters have donated nearly $2 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association as well as $2.8 million dollars to the campaigns of individual Republican Attorneys General leading the charge on the lawsuit and blocking climate action. The report also shows new evidence of behind the scenes coordination between dirty energy interests and the offices of Republican Attorneys General acquired through Freedom of Information Act requests.</div><div>
</div><div>The EPA’s plan would cut heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, save the average American $200 a year on their energy bills, bring down health costs associated with asthma attacks, lung cancer and other air pollution-related illnesses and pave the way for 250,000 new jobs when fully implemented.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet even considering the Clean Power Plan’s long list of benefits, the position of these Republican Attorneys General on the payroll for polluters becomes more indefensible when you consider how strongly at odds it puts them with the will of their own constituents who know that addressing climate change is no longer up for debate. Poll after poll has shown that voters support measures to address climate change, as well as elected officials willing to take action. In fact, in the home states of the Attorneys General bringing the lawsuit against the EPA, 61 percent of the public supports the Clean Power Plan.</div><div>
</div><div>But while they’ve already lost in the court of public opinion, big polluters and their allies in the Republican Attorneys General Association think they can use the courts to stop the Clean Power Plan despite its strong basis in existing law and the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the EPA’s authority to take action to limit carbon pollution three times. Even George W. Bush’s former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman testified that the “EPA does have the authority” to go forward with a policy she called the “most flexible thing” the agency has ever done.</div><div>
</div><div>The key findings of the report include:</div><div>
</div><div>Republican Attorneys General and their national organizing arm, the Republican Attorneys General Association, have received a sum total of more than $4.7 Million from polluters and energy interests.</div><div>The Republican Attorneys General Association has taken $1.9 Million from polluter and energy interests.</div><div>Individual Republican Attorneys General have received a total of $2.8 Million from polluter and energy interests.</div><div>Louisiana Attorney General’s office close ties behind the scenes with Koch lobbyists Hunton & Williams.</div><div>Wisconsin Attorney General’s office coordinating with the Koch-funded Heartland Institute to publish an anti-Clean Power Plan oped.</div><div>North Dakota Attorney General’s office holding “confidential” conference calls with coal the North American Coal Corporation as well as coal industry interests to discuss the Clean Power Plan.</div><div>Colorado Attorney General’s office seeking out anti-Clean Power Plan interests from lobbyists.</div><div>Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine speaking about the Clean Power Plan at an Ohio Coal Association “closed press event” to allow him to “speak freely” as well as receiving anti-Clean Power Plan emails at a personal email address, which he forwarded to senior members of his staff at their government email address.</div><div></div><div>
</div><div>Date Donor Amount</div><div>
</div><div>1/15/2014 American Gas Association $350</div><div>
</div><div>1/30/2014 America's Natural Gas Alliance $700</div><div>
</div><div>2/19/2014 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/5/2014 American Gas Association $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/18/2014 Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services Company $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/27/2014 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/31/2014 Continental Resources, Inc.' $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/31/2014 Devon Energy Production Company $125,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/31/2014 DuPont $35,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/31/2014 Koch Industries, Inc $125,000</div><div>
</div><div>4/15/2014 General Electric PAC $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>4/24/2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $370</div><div>
</div><div>4/29/2014 Alpha Natural Resources Services, LLC $350</div><div>
</div><div>5/8/2014 American Natural Gas Alliance $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>5/13/2014 Peabody Energy $315</div><div>
</div><div>5/14/2014 Exxon Mobil Corporation $60,000</div><div>
</div><div>5/16/2014 Koch Companies Public Sector $4,900</div><div>
</div><div>5/30/2014 Continental Resources $685</div><div>
</div><div>6/12/2014 NextEra Energy $315</div><div>
</div><div>6/12/2014 NextEra Energy $315</div><div>
</div><div>6/23/2014 Marathon Oil Corporation $5,000</div><div>
</div><div>6/25/2014 Consumers Energy Company $10,000</div><div>
</div><div>6/30/2014 Chevron Policy Govt and Publ Affairs $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>6/30/2014 Dominion $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>8/27/2014 Whiting Oil and Gas Corp $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>9/5/2014 Denbury Resources $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>9/5/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>9/11/2014 American Natural Gas Alliance (in kind) $3,395</div><div>
</div><div>9/26/2014 Alpha Natural Resources Services LLC $5,000</div><div>
</div><div>10/2/2014 Consol Energy Inc $10,000</div><div>
</div><div>10/6/2014 America's Natural Gas Alliance $415</div><div>
</div><div>10/7/2014 Clean Energy $20,000</div><div>
</div><div>10/12/2014 Koch Industries Inc. $415</div><div>
</div><div>10/13/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $415</div><div>
</div><div>10/31/2014 Alliant Energy Corp $10,000</div><div>
</div><div>11/6/2014 AmeriGas Propane, Inc. $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>11/12/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $415</div><div>
</div><div>1/8/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $350</div><div>
</div><div>1/14/2015 American Gas Association $16,500</div><div>
</div><div>1/29/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>1/30/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $350</div><div>
</div><div>2/2/2015 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/3/2015 Koch Industries $125,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/11/2015 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/24/2015 Duke Energy $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/4/2015 Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services Company $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>4/28/2015 Whiting Oil and Gas Corp $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>5/4/2015 Exxon Mobil Corporation $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>5/26/2015 Consumers Energy Company $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>5/28/2015 General Electric Company $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>6/2/2015 American Natural Gas Assiance Inc $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>6/26/2015 Koch Companies Public Sector $400</div><div>
</div><div>10/9/2015 American Natural Gas Alliance Inc 350</div><div>
</div><div>9/16/2015 Tri-State Generation And Transmission 350</div><div>
</div><div>10/23/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 610</div><div>
</div><div>7/3/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 400</div><div>
</div><div>12/17/2015 Chevron Policy Government And Public Affairs 25000</div><div>
</div><div>10/20/2015 American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufactuers 200</div><div>
</div><div>10/26/2015</div><div>
</div><div>Tri-State Generation And Transmission</div><div>
</div><div>Association 40000</div><div>
</div><div>11/9/2015 Amerigas Propane, LP 25000</div><div>
</div><div>9/15/2015</div><div>
</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>
</div><div>Company 610</div><div>
</div><div>7/15/2015 American Natural Gas Alliance Inc 400</div><div>
</div><div>9/24/2015 Alliant Energy Corporation Services Inc 350</div><div>
</div><div>12/31/2015 Alliant Energy Corporation Services Inc 15000</div><div>
</div><div>7/15/2015 Wv Oil And Natural Gas Association Inc. 5000</div><div>
</div><div>12/31/2015 Encana Oil And Gas Usa Inc 20000</div><div>
</div><div>9/30/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 50000</div><div>
</div><div>11/19/2015 Koch Industries, Inc. 100000</div><div>
</div><div>2/18/2016 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/17/2016 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/8/2016 General Electric Company $50,000</div><div>
</div><div>3/2/2016</div><div>
</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>
</div><div>Company $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/3/2016 American Gas Association $350</div><div>
</div><div>2/19/2016 Securing Americas Future Energy Foundation $350</div><div>
</div><div>1/12/2016</div><div>
</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>
</div><div>Company $350</div><div>
</div><div>3/16/2016 Koch Industries, Inc. $125,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/9/2016 American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufactuers $60,000</div><div>
</div><div>2/24/2016 American Gas Association $15,000</div><div>
</div><div>1/8/2016 Nv Energy $25,000</div><div>
</div><div>TOTAL: $1,915,275</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>AG INDIVIDUAL SUM: $2,871,208</div><div>
</div><div>An examination of industry donations to the Republican Attorneys General who have joined the lawsuit</div><div>
</div><div>against the Clean Power Plan. Republican Attorneys General who were appointed or do not have</div><div>
</div><div>campaign contribution records are excluded.</div><div>
</div><div>1. Alabama – Luther Strange</div><div>
</div><div>$314,788</div><div>
</div><div>2. Arizona - Mark Brnovich</div><div>
</div><div>$11,000</div><div>
</div><div>3. Arkansas – Leslie Rutledge</div><div>
</div><div>$32,875</div><div>
</div><div>4. Colorado – Cynthia Coffman</div><div>
</div><div>$22,828</div><div>
</div><div>5. Florida – Pam Bondi</div><div>
</div><div>$26,350</div><div>
</div><div>6. Georgia – Sam Olens</div><div>
</div><div>$43,925</div><div>
</div><div>7. Indiana – Greg Zoeller</div><div>
</div><div>$28,200</div><div>
</div><div>8. Kansas – Derek Schmidt</div><div>
</div><div>$129,737</div><div>
</div><div>9. Louisiana – Buddy Caldwell</div><div>
</div><div>$98,642</div><div>
</div><div>10. Michigan – Bill Schuette</div><div>
</div><div>$172,241</div><div>
</div><div>11. Montana – Tim Fox</div><div>
</div><div>$35,241</div><div>
</div><div>12. Nebraska – Doug Peterson</div><div>
</div><div>$4,053</div><div>
</div><div>13. North Dakota - Wayne Stenehjem</div><div>
</div><div>$87,801</div><div>
</div><div>14. Nevada – Adam Paul Laxalt</div><div>
</div><div>$27,300</div><div>
</div><div>15. Ohio – Mike DeWine</div><div>
</div><div>$335,763</div><div>
</div><div>16. Oklahoma - Scott Pruitt</div><div>
</div><div>$305,996</div><div>
</div><div>17. South Carolina – Alan Wilson</div><div>
</div><div>$39,050</div><div>
</div><div>18. South Dakota – Marty Jackley</div><div>
</div><div>$10,826</div><div>
</div><div>19. Texas – Ken Paxton</div><div>
</div><div>$1,067,817</div><div>
</div><div>20. Utah – Sean Reyes</div><div>
</div><div>$2,800</div><div>
</div><div>21. West Virginia – Patrick Morrissey</div><div>
</div><div>$53,500</div><div>
</div><div>22. Wisconsin – Brad Schimel</div><div>
</div><div>
</div><div>$20,475</div><div>
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</div><div>24 = ~CPP</div><div>
</div><div>1 ey General of Alabama</div><div>Luther Strange</div><div>.</div><div>2 Attorney General of Arizona</div><div>Mark Brnovich</div><div>.</div><div>3 Attorney General of Arkansas</div><div>Leslie Rutledge</div><div>.</div><div>4 Attorney General of Colorado</div><div>Cynthia Coffman</div><div>.</div><div>5 Attorney General of Florida</div><div>Pam Bondi</div><div>.</div><div>6 Attorney General of Georgia</div><div>Sam Olens</div><div>.</div><div>7 Attorney General of Idaho</div><div>Lawrence Wasden</div><div>.</div><div>8 Attorney General of Indiana</div><div>Greg Zoeller</div><div>.</div><div>9 Attorney General of Kansas</div><div>Derek Schmidt</div><div>.</div><div>10 Attorney General of Louisiana</div><div>Jeff Landry</div><div>.</div><div>11 Attorney General of Michigan</div><div>Bill Schuette</div><div>
</div><div>MISSOuRI?] KOSTER DEM EX GOP</div><div>
</div><div>.</div><div>12 Attorney General of Montana</div><div>Tim Fox</div><div>.</div><div>13 Attorney General of Nebraska</div><div>Doug Peterson</div><div>.</div><div>14 Attorney General of Nevada</div><div>Adam Laxalt</div><div>.</div><div>15 Attorney General of North Dakota</div><div>Wayne Stenehjem</div><div>.</div><div>16 Attorney General of Ohio</div><div>Mike DeWine</div><div>.</div><div>17 Attorney General of Oklahoma</div><div>Scott Pruitt</div><div>.</div><div>18 Attorney General of South Carolina</div><div>Alan Wilson</div><div>.</div><div>19 Attorney General of South Dakota</div><div>Marty J. Jackley</div><div>.</div><div>20 Attorney General of Texas</div><div>Ken Paxton</div><div>.</div><div>21 Attorney General of Tennessee</div><div>Herbert Slatery</div><div>.</div><div>22 Attorney General of Utah</div><div>Sean Reyes</div><div>.</div><div>23 Attorney General of West Virginia</div><div>Patrick Morrisey</div><div>.</div><div>24 Attorney General of Wisconsin</div><div>Brad Schimel  </div><div>
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</div><div>AHA: rove started takeover of state courts?  kochs go to state level when frozen on fed (and expensive); offshoot of fedsoc? RGA</div><div>
</div><div>redmap? or is that more sec of state</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Cooch;</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>tobacco, coal</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>RAGA? big ~CPP, bondi endorse trump</div><div> </div><div>
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</div><div>The Republican Attorneys General Association is under fire in Colorado and Alabama for earlier donations to political-action committees. In Colorado, the money was used to hammer former Congressman Tom Tancredo in the governor’s primary. </div><div>
</div><div>The $2.6 million investment for Coffman is more than four times the amount spent by any candidate ever running for attorney general in Colorado, Quick said, and is believed to be the first time outside money has played a role in the race. </div><div>
</div><div>“I don’t think Colorado voters are going to like a group from the outside trying to buy the attorney general’s office,” said Quick, the former Adams County district attorney. “There may be a real estate boom right now but the attorney general’s office isn’t up for sale.”[he was wrong]</div><div> </div><div>
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</div><div>Scott Will, the political director for RAGA, has refused to tell The Denver Post why the organization, whose stated mission is to elect Republicans for attorney general, played in Colorado’s four-way GOP June 24 gubernatorial primary. Will did comment on the money for Coffman.</div><div>
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</div><div>“RAGA is investing heavily in this race because Colorado voters are rejecting the Obama agenda and making it clear that they want leaders like Cynthia Coffman who will rein in the federal government,” he said. </div><div>
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</div><div>RAGA in June funneled $155,000 to a super PAC with ties to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. The money paid for automated calls and a radio ad attacking Tancredo, and a TV spot that highlighted another gubernatorial candidate, Bob Beauprez, at Tancredo’s expense. Beauprez beat Tancredo and two other GOP rivals in the June 24 primary. Days later, the Republican Governors Association contributed $175,000 to RAGA. </div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Tancredo has demanded that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chairman of RGA, provide a full explanation and release communications between his group and RAGA. </div><div>
</div><div>In Alabama, the RAGA donation to a PAC intended to benefit Luther Strange, the Republican attorney general seeking re-election, has been called illegal because of state campaign finance laws. Luther returned the $50,000 PAC donation after reporters asked questions, but a complaint has been filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission.</div><div>
</div><div>Luther’s RAGA donation is paltry compared to the $2.6 million for Coffman.</div><div>
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</div><div>pope:</div><div>
</div><div>I know, Republican politicians, other than Donald Trump, offer as an article of faith that they stand up against bailouts. In fact, the Club of Growth in its first attack on Trump, made a core issue of the idea that Trump has supported the Wall Street Bailout.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Except bailout opposition, it seems, falters when it comes to fossil fuels. Republicans took vicious exception to the Obama Administration’s willingness to use federal loan guarantees to help renewable energy companies – most spectacularly Solyndra—even though these loan guarantees, overall, came in under budget, and cumulatively created a powerful clean energy sector, but still, as you have heard thousands of times, taxpayers lost $535 million dollars when Solyndra failed.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>So you would expect an enormous conservative outcry if major multinational corporations exploited loopholes in federal law to stick the taxpayers not with hundreds of millions, but with bills for billions for their business mistakes?  Right?</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Well, maybe not. Because the nation’s coal mining companies have been doing exactly that, with the active cooperation not of liberal Democrats but of judges and regulators in conservative Republican states like Missouri, Wyoming and West Virginia. Coal companies hold in trust the funds that pay their workers’ pensions and health care. But over the past few years companies like Peabody Coal divided themselves into bits and pieces. Certain bits kept the parts of the coal business Peabody thought were money makers. Other bits (with sexy names like Patriot Coal) got assigned mines that were no longer profitable, along with bundled liabilities like retiree pensions and health care. When Patriot Coal, predictably, filed for bankruptcy it stuck the taxpayers and the workers with the obligations.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>In one elegantly vicious move, 208 retired coal miners who had no connection to Patriot Coal, had never worked for it, and whose pensions were fiduciarily sound, saw their retirement siphoned off to pay for legal fees and other bankruptcy costs. In essence, Alcoa, which is not going bankrupt, paid Patriot, which was, to assume pension obligations for these 208 miners. Alcoa gave Patriot reasonable money.  But instead of using the funds to pay for pensions, Patriot is using it to pay lawyers, which, in a bankruptcy, it thought it could get away with. Eventually, it had to back down. But 12,000 other mine workers, with more direct relationships with Peabody, face the loss of their hard earned pension and health care benefits.</div><div>
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</div><div>Coal companies are also required to post bonds to pay for reclaiming strip mined land. But those with creatively puffed up balance sheets were allowed by states to “self bond” and guarantee their own obligations. Arch Coal, for example, was allowed to qualify for “self-bonding” only four months before it went bankrupt. Alpha Resources has obligations of almost a half billion dollars. But over the past three years even “strong” coal companies like Peabody have plummeted towards bankruptcy, making it impossible for them to actually pay their accumulated reclamation costs. Yet state regulator‘s took no effective action to make them put up bonds for the reclamation costs everyone knew were coming. More than 75 percent of Wyoming’s massive clean up bill is “self-bonded” by companies most of which no longer exist or will shortly no longer exist.</div><div>
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</div><div>http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/31/big-coal-bailout-2016/</div><div> </div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Attorneys_General_Association</div><div>
</div><div>srcwtch</div><div>
</div><div>Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is a Washington-based association of Republican Attorneys General. The association was created due to "concerns arising out of the industry-wide lawsuits that seek to promote public policy changes via the courthouse rather than the statehouse," and out of a desire to stop those with "a wish list for future mass state lawsuits-car rental companies, pharmaceutical firms, makers of lead paint and gun manufacturers."[1]</div><div>
</div><div>RAGA receives funding from major corporations, which can be considered a conflict of interest since some these corporations have, or are, suspected of criminal wrong-doing. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include:</div><div>
</div><div>Microsoft Corporation donated $10,000 to RAGA while being sued for antitrust violations by the Justice Department and 19 states. [2][3].</div><div>SBC Communications Inc. (now AT&T) donated $35,000 while its acquisition of Ameritech Corp. was facing review by state officials.</div><div>Aetna U.S. Healthcare gave $10,000 to RAGA while being accused of HMO fraud by Attorney General Dan Morales (D-TX) in 1998 just before he left office. Litigation stalled under Morales' Republican successor, John Cornyn. [4].</div><div>The Texas Observer reports,</div><div>"Since RAGA's creation in 1999, Simmons' two main holding companies, Contran and Valhi, have contributed $350,000 to the Republican PAC that launders RAGA's money, the Republican National State Elections Committee. RNSEC received another $211,000 since RAGA's creation from other companies that are defendants in the Rhode Island [lead paint] suit. This includes $201,000 from ARCO (and ARCO chairman emeritus Lodwrick Cook) and $10,000 from DuPont."</div><div>And,</div><div>"[John] Cornyn's position is even more worth watching because a leading defendant in Rhode Island's lawsuit is NL Industries, which is controlled by Dallas corporate raider Harold Simmons. Simmons is a major donor to Republican PACs and candidates. He gave $90,000 to George W. Bush's two gubernatorial campaigns and has given Cornyn $31,000 since 1998." [5]</div><div>
</div><div>In a two day fundraiser session back in the Spring of 2000 in Austin Texas, Karl Rove, George W. Bush's chief strategist, was featured. [6]</div><div>
</div><div>The primary method of contributing money to RAGA is to become a member. Membership costs from $5,000 to $25,000, with increasing levels of access to attorneys general depending on the donation amount.</div><div>
</div><div>Unfortunately, knowing the full details of the contributions RAGA receives is very difficult since all money received by RAGA is passed to the Republican National Committee without any public links, especially money received from direct solicitation by attorneys general.</div><div>
</div><div>Internal fundraising documents obtained by The Washington Post show that Republican state attorneys general were asked to solicit contributions from corporations and trade groups subject to lawsuits and regulations by their states. The companies solicited include Shell Oil, Brown & Williamson, Pfizer Inc.,MasterCard Inc., Eli Lilly and Co., Anheuser-Busch Cos., Citigroup Inc., Amway Corp., U.S. Steel Corp., Nextel Communications Inc., General Motors, and Microsoft Corp. The documents state that company officials would be allowed to meet, participate in conference calls, and socialize with the attorneys general.</div><div>
</div><div>Attorneys general mentioned in the documents include John Cornyn, who was the State Attorney General of Texas before being elected to the Senate in 2002; Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, founder of RAGA and pending President Bush federal appellate court nominee; former Virginia Attorney GeneralMark Earley; Delaware Attorney General Jane Brady; former South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon; and former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery. [7]</div><div>
</div><div>Contents</div><div>
</div><div>1 Attorneys General</div><div>2 Known Contributers</div><div>3 External links</div><div>4 Other Related SourceWatch Resources</div><div>Attorneys General</div><div>
</div><div>The following attorneys general are known to be part of (past and present) RAGA:</div><div>
</div><div>Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, founder of RAGA and pending President Bush federal appellate court nominee.</div><div>
</div><div>Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), State Attorney General of Texas before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002.</div><div>
</div><div>Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley.</div><div>
</div><div>Delaware Attorney General Jane Brady.</div><div>
</div><div>South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon, RAGA's first chairmen.</div><div>
</div><div>Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery.</div><div>
</div><div>Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg.</div><div>Known Contributers</div><div>
</div><div>Due to a lack of any public disclosure, a complete list of contributers is not available:</div><div>
</div><div>Aetna U.S. Healthcare</div><div>
</div><div>Brown & Williamson</div><div>
</div><div>Microsoft Corporation</div><div>
</div><div>National Rifle Association</div><div>
</div><div>SBC Communications Inc.</div><div>External links</div><div>
</div><div>March 30, 2000, Attorneys General Raise Funds for GOP, by George Lardner Jr. and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post.</div><div>May 11, 2001, Corporate AGs: Attorney, Restrain Thyself!', by Andrew Wheat, The Texas Observer.</div><div>July 17, 2003, GOP Attorneys General Asked For Corporate Contributions, by R. Jeffrey Smith and Tania Branigan, Washington Post.</div><div></div><div>Judicial Crisis Network Is Heavily Tied To GOP Infrastructure</div><div>
</div><div>JCN Spent More Than "More Than A Half-Million Dollars A Month Before Election Day In 2008" Attacking Obama. The Associated Press wrote that JCN "shelled out more than a half-million dollars a month before Election Day in 2008 for TV ads that linked Obama to shady characters and questioned who he would choose for the Supreme Court." [The Associated Press, 6/9/10]</div><div>
</div><div>JCN Gave The Republican Attorneys General Association $1,095,000 In 2015. JCN gave the Republican Attorneys General Association, "whose mission is electing Republicans to the Office of State Attorney General," $1,095,000 in 2015, according to an IRS filing. JCN gave the association $1,000,000 in 2014. [IRS.gov, 2/1/16, 12/4/14; Republican Attorneys General Association, accessed 2/19/16]</div><div>
</div><div>JCN Gave $500,000 To The Republican Governors Association In 2015. JCN gave the Republican Governors Association, which helps "elect Republicans to governorships throughout the nation," $500,000 in 2015, according to an IRS filing. [IRS.gov, 1/30/16; Twitter.com, 1/31/16; Republican Governors Association, accessed 2/19/16]</div><div>
</div><div>Daily Beast: "JCN Has Emerged As A Pipeline For Secret Money To Other, Better-Known Dark Money Groups." Viveca Novak and Peter Stone wrote in The Daily Beast of JCN:                                           </div><div>
</div><div>To expand its influence in state elections, JCN has emerged as a pipeline for secret money to other, better-known dark money groups like the Wisconsin Club for Growth and the American Future Fund which, in turn, have spent big bucks in state Supreme Court and AG races.</div><div>
</div><div>JCN heightened its focus on AG races last year when it pumped $1 million in secret money into the Republican Attorneys General Association, making it the third-biggest contributor to RAGA and helping the GOP pick up three new slots so that it now controls the majority of state AG posts. </div><div>
</div><div>JCN's pivotal part in the surge of spending on court elections has received scant attention. But in 2012, it dished out more than $2 million in court races in Michigan alone--half of that in a single down-ticket state circuit contest, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. And over the last two years, the organization contributed a minimum of about $2 million to groups that were involved in 2014 state judicial elections and efforts to influence how judges are chosen. Recipients of JCN checks included the many-tentacled Republican State Leadership Committee, which for the first time invested in court races around the country, spending more on them than any other outside group. [The Daily Beast, 3/23/15]</div><div>
</div><div>JCN Head Regularly Writes For The Conservative National Review. Carrie Severino serves as chief counsel and policy director for JCN. She clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. She also writes for the National Review's legal section, where she frequently criticizes the Obama administration on legal issues. [Judicial Crisis Network, accessed 2/18/16; NationalReview.com, accessed 2/18/16; Media Matters, accessed 2/18/16]</div><div>
</div><div></div><div>https://theintercept.com/2015/04/22/read-new-york-times-pulitzer-prize-winning-series-corporate-lobbying-state-attorneys-general/</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>You don’t understand the world you live in if you haven’t read Eric Lipton’s three-part series in The New York Times on the staggering “explosion” of relentless, grimy lobbying of state attorneys general. Lipton just won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, and it’s truly deserved: it’s a masterpiece of investigative reporting, built on diligent use of open records laws by Lipton and Times researchers.</div><div>
</div><div>More than anything it makes you understand why those laws are so important and so loathed by politicians. As Tony Blair said in his memoir, he was an “idiot” for supporting a Freedom of Information Act in the U.K. because it’s “used by journalists.”</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>The Times series explains that the current corporate onslaught is a response to successful collaborations by state attorneys general over the past several decades, including settlements in which 46 states extracted $206 billion from the tobacco industry, and 49 states forced the top five mortgage servicers to cough up $25 billion.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Public officials acting in the public interest was clearly a glitch in the matrix, and corporate America set out to eliminate it. In 2000 the GOP created the Republican Attorneys General Association, telling corporate lawyers to “round up your clients and come see what RAGA is all about” and then contribute because policy was being set “via the courthouse rather than the statehouse.” RAGA raked in at least $11.7 million in 2014, including $2.2 million from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and $500,000 from Sheldon Adelson.</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>The Democrats founded DAGA in 2002, and it now siphons up big chunks of money from many of the same donors as RAGA, including Citigroup, Comcast, Coca-Cola and Pfizer.</div><div>
</div><div>RAGA and DAGA provide one-stop shops for influencing state attorneys general. Corporations donate; RAGA and DAGA distribute much of their cash to the campaigns of individual attorneys general; and some of the rest of the money pays for “conferences” that include fundraisers at which corporate executives and their lawyers can donate more to officials in attendance. Then after the attorneys general leave office, they can use the contacts they’ve developed to go work directly for the corporations.</div><div>
</div><div>The end result has been a kind of outsourcing of what citizens would expect their legal representatives to do themselves. For instance, The Times found:</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>• Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency accusing them of “very significantly overestimating” the pollution caused by fracking; the letter was actually written by lawyers for an Oklahoma oil and gas company (which was a big supporter of RAGA).</div><div>
</div><div>• Missouri’s Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster instituted restrictive new rules for investigations by his consumer affairs division, rules that had been suggested by a senior executive at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.</div><div>
</div><div>• Plaintiffs’ lawyers have encouraged many attorneys general, mostly Democrats, to file hundreds of lawsuits against businesses; the attorneys general then hire the outside lawyers to do most of the work in return for contingency fees, usually 20 percent of any settlement.</div><div>
</div><div>The end results, former Maine Attorney General James Tierney told The Times, are “shocking, terrible.”</div><div>
</div><div>But here’s the funny part: all the attorneys general questioned by The Times maintain that the money and lobbying have no influence on their decisions whatsoever. This means that the corporations doing the lobbying are engaged in a massive waste of shareholder resources. In other words, if the attorneys general truly believe what they say, they should consider filing a huge, multi-state lawsuit against their donors.</div><div>
</div><div>So please be sure to read it all.</div><div>
</div><div></div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>pruitt and miller energy summit:</div><div>
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</div><div> </div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma energy companies were there, according to an agenda, joined by executives from Peabody Energy of Missouri, the world’s largest private-sector coal producer, as well as the Southern Company, which has aggressively challenged federal air pollution mandates.</div><div>
</div><div>The nation’s top corporate energy regulatory lawyers were there, too, including F. William Brownell, a senior partner at the law firm Hunton & Williams, which has spent more than 25 years fighting the enforcement of theClean Air Act.</div><div>
</div><div>The event was organized by an energy-industry-funded law and economics center at George Mason University of Virginia. The center is part of the brain trust of conservative, pro-industry groups that have worked from the sidelines to help Mr. Pruitt and other attorneys general.</div><div>
</div><div>And there was nothing ambiguous about the agenda.</div><div>
</div><div>“Suggested Responses to Assaults on Federalism” was the topic of one breakfast meeting, moderated by Attorney General Wayne K. Stenehjem of North Dakota, that showcased Mr. Brownell and three other top corporate regulatory lawyers. Mr. Hamm was the featured dinner speaker.</div><div>
</div><div>“We need to ensure the robust role of the states,” said Paul M. Seby, another coal industry lawyer who attended. “And as the chief law enforcement officers, it is not surprising this is becoming a cornerstone of attorney generals’ attention.”</div><div>
</div><div></div><div>
</div><div>The Republican Attorneys General Association held its annual meeting in Miami in mid-November 2014. Many of the same companies seeking to enlist the Republican attorneys general to help combat the Obama regulatory agenda were there, to help celebrate the recent election victories and plan for future fights.</div><div>
</div><div>KEY DOCUMENTS</div><div>
</div><div>Conference includes a large number of energy industry sponsors.</div><div>Sponsors of the association's event in Miami included Devon Energy of Oklahoma, which has particularly close ties with Mr. Pruitt; Alliance Resource Partners, a coal mining company; and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, an industry trade association. Companies must donate at least $25,000 to the association to become a "host committee" member. Some, like Devon, donated much more this year.</div><div>Fund-raising group allows corporate contributions to be obscured.</div><div>The association has also started a new fund-raising vehicle called the Rule of Law Defense Fund, which will allow corporations to make contributions that will be hidden from public disclosure.</div><div></div><div>
</div><div>Southern and Hunton & Williams Letters</div><div>
</div><div>The Southern Company of Georgia, an electric utility with a number of coal-burning power plants, and Hunton & Williams, a law and lobbying firm that has joined with Southern to try to block the Obama administration's Clear Air Act rules, have also played key behind-the-scenes roles in pushing Mr. Pruitt and other mostly Republican attorneys general to take actions that help protect their interests.</div><div>
</div><div>KEY DOCUMENTS</div><div>
</div><div>Attorney general’s office signs and circulates a lobbyist-drafted letter.</div><div>Days after being approached by a lobbyist from Hunton & Williams asking Mr. Pruitt’s office to intervene with the federal government on an environmental issue, a lawyer in Mr. Pruitt’s office took the lobbyist-drafted letter, put it on state government stationery and circulated it to 15 other state attorneys general, almost all Republicans, urging them to sign on as well after telling them this was “a comment letter we have prepared.” Soon after, the nearly identical final letter was sent to the E.P.A. administrator signed by seven Republican attorneys general.</div><div>Lobbyists ask attorneys general to intervene on matters that stand to benefit clients.</div><div>Hunton & Williams, on behalf of the Southern Company, held private meetings with attorneys general and offered them legal pointers on how to challenge various proposed E.P.A. rules. Hunton also formally asked one attorney general to join with other states and to intervene in federal court on behalf of his client.</div><div>ANNOTATE</div><div>
</div><div>KEY DOCUMENTS</div><div>
</div><div>Letters Mr. Pruitt sent to the administration were almost identical to those suggested by lobbyists.</div><div>An examination of the letters shows in some cases that Mr. Pruitt took them, signed them and simply sent them along, making almost no changes. In one letter, only 37 words of more than 1,000 were modified.</div><div>Emails show the Republican Attorneys General Association sells access to a large number of attorneys general.</div><div>Devon Energy is a major financial supporter of the association — which Mr. Pruitt took over in 2012 — donating $125,000 this year. In one email exchange, Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff wrote to the head of lobbying at Devon to ask for help in getting the American Petroleum Institute to join the association.</div><div>Emails between Devon and Mr. Pruitt highlight an effort to block a fracking regulation.</div><div>Email exchanges between Devon and Mr. Pruitt, as well as representatives from the Republican Governors Association, show how the company turned to Republican attorneys general and governors for help in trying to block a proposed Bureau of Land Management fracking regulation. The pitch has been successful so far, as the implementation of the rule has been repeatedly delayed.</div><div>
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</div><div>Several of the largest donors to the Republican and Democratic Attorneys General Associations are companies or groups that have been targets of investigations or are seeking help from attorneys general in challenging federal regulations. OCT. 28, 2014 RELATED ARTICLE</div><div>
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</div><div>KEY</div><div>$0</div><div>$100,000</div><div>$500,000</div><div>$2.3 million</div><div>DONOR</div><div>AMOUNT GIVEN TO:</div><div>RELEVANT ISSUES</div><div>Reps.</div><div>Dems.</div><div>’14</div><div>’13-’14</div><div>U.S. Chamber of</div><div>Commerce</div><div>R</div><div>Pushing attorneys general to curb what it considers excessive litigation against</div><div>pharmaceutical, financial services and other industries.</div><div>Conservative nonprofit groups pushing for limits on federal environmental</div><div>regulation and continued challenges to the Obama health care program.</div><div>Judicial Crisis Network</div><div>R</div><div>American Future Fund</div><div>R</div><div>R</div><div>C.E.O. of Las Vegas Sands, seeking attorneys general support to ban online poker.</div><div>Sheldon G. Adelson</div><div>Pushing Democrats to support a narrower definition of “independent contractor."</div><div>Teamsters union</div><div>D</div><div>Pinnacle West Capital</div><div>Owner of an Arizona electric utility that could benefit from action taken by the</div><div>attorney general there in challenging federal rules on coal-burning power plants.</div><div>R</div><div>Involved in recent disputes over continuing payouts from the 1998 tobacco</div><div>settlement and seeking to play a role in decisions over regulation of e-cigarettes.</div><div>Altria</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Reynolds America</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Members of the network were targeted, but cleared, in an inquiry alleging anti-</div><div>competitive practices. Plaintiff's lawyers have urged that new actions be filed.</div><div>Blue Cross & Blue Shield</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Devon Energy</div><div>Seeking help in blocking Obama administration rules governing fracking.</div><div>R</div><div>Trinity Industries</div><div>Targeted in investigations related to alleged defects in its highway guardrails.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Seeking antitrust approval for a proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.</div><div>Comcast</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Previously targeted by attorneys general for alleged deceptive marketing practices.</div><div>Rent-A-Center</div><div>Recently settled a case related to its marketing and issuance of residential</div><div>mortgage-backed securities before 2009.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Citigroup</div><div>Google</div><div>Targeted in an inquiry into allegations that it allows illegal products to be</div><div>sold via its search engine.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Coca-Cola</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>A possible target if attorneys general pursue litigation, as one law firm has</div><div>advocated, against the food industry concerning obesity-related health costs.</div><div>DirecTV</div><div>Antitrust review underway related to a proposed merger with AT&T. Previously</div><div>targeted for alleged deceptive marketing.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Herbalife International</div><div>Targeted in an inquiry over allegations of fraudulent business practices.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Plaintiff's law firm seeking to act as contingency lawyer to attorneys general.</div><div>Labaton Sucharow</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>5-Hour Energy affiliates</div><div>Targeted in a consumer fraud investigation over product labeling and claims.</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Targeted in multiple investigations related to alleged fradulent drug marketing.</div><div>Pfizer</div><div>R</div><div>D</div><div>Contributions for 2013 are not available for the Republican Attorneys General Association, because until J</div><div>
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</div><div>...Private lawyers also have written drafts of legal filings that attorneys general have used almost verbatim. In some cases, they have become an adjunct to the office by providing much of the legal work, including bearing the cost of litigation, in exchange for up to 20 percent of any settlement.</div><div>
</div><div>Money gathered through events like the one in February 2013 at the Loews hotel is flooding the political campaigns of attorneys general and flowing to party organizations that can take unlimited corporate contributions and then funnel money to individual candidates. The Republican Attorneys General Association alone has pulled in $11.7 million since January.</div><div>
</div><div>It is a self-perpetuating network that includes a group of former attorneys general called SAGE, or the Society of Attorneys General Emeritus, most of whom are now on retainer to corporate clients.</div><div>
</div><div>Giant energy producers and service companies like Devon Energy of Oklahoma, the Southern Company of Georgia and TransCanada have retained their own teams of attorney general specialists, including Andrew P. Miller, a former attorney general of Virginia.</div><div>
</div><div>For some companies, the reward seems apparent, according to the documents obtained by The Times. In Georgia, the attorney general, after receiving a request from a former attorney general who had become a lobbyist, disregarded written advice from the state’s environmental regulators, the emails show. In Utah, the attorney general dismissed a case pending against Bank of America over the objections of his staff after secretly meeting with a former attorney general working as a Bank of America lobbyist.</div><div>
</div><div>That Bank of America case was cited in July when the two most recent former attorneys general in Utah were charged with granting official favors to donors in exchange for golf getaways, rides on private planes and a luxury houseboat.</div><div>
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</div><div>The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state. But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying. “Outstanding!” William F. Whitsitt, who at the time directed government relations at the company, said in a note to Mr. Pruitt’s office. The attorney general’s staff had taken Devon’s draft, copied it onto state government stationery with only a few word changes, and sent it to Washington with the attorney general’s signature. “The timing of the letter is great, given our meeting this Friday with both E.P.A. and the White House.” Mr. Whitsitt then added, “Please pass along Devon’s thanks to Attorney General Pruitt.” The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an openrecords request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr.</div><div>
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</div><div>Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found. Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year. They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices. The Times reported previously how individual attorneys general have shut down investigations, changed policies or agreed to more corporate-friendly settlement terms after intervention by lobbyists and lawyers, many of whom are also campaign benefactors. But the attorneys general are also working collectively. Democrats for more than a decade have teamed up with environmental groups such as the Sierra Club to use the court system to impose stricter regulation. But never before have attorneys general joined on this scale with corporate interests to challenge Washington and file lawsuits in federal court. Out of public view, corporate representatives and attorneys general are coordinating legal strategy and other efforts to fight federal regulations, according to a review of thousands of emails and court documents and dozens of interviews. “When you use a public office, pretty shamelessly, to vouch for a private party with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice,” said David B. Frohnmayer, a </div><div>
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</div><div> Republican who served a decade as attorney general in Oregon. “The puppeteer behind the stage is pulling strings, and you can’t see. I don’t like that. And when it is exposed, it makes you feel used.” For Mr. Pruitt, the benefits have been clear. Lobbyists and company officials have been notably solicitous, helping him raise his profile as president for two years of the Republican Attorneys General Association, a post he used to help start what he and allies called the Rule of Law campaign, which was intended to push back against Washington. That campaign, in which attorneys general band together to operate like a large national law firm, has been used to back lawsuits and other challenges against the Obama administration on environmental issues, the Affordable Care Act and securities regulation. The most recent target is the president’s executive action on immigration. “We are living in the midst of a constitutional crisis,” Mr. Pruitt told energy industry lobbyists and conservative state legislators at a conference in Dallas in July, after being welcomed with a standing ovation. “The trajectory of our nation is at risk and at stake as we respond to what is going on.” Mr. Pruitt has responded aggressively, and with a lot of helping hands. Energy industry lobbyists drafted letters for him to send to the E.P.A., the Interior Department, the Office of Management and Budget and even President Obama, The Times found. Industries that he regulates have also joined him as plaintiffs in court challenges, a departure from the usual role of the state attorney general, who traditionally sues companies to force compliance with state law. Energy industry lobbyists have also distributed draft legislation to attorneys general and asked them to help push it through state legislatures to give the attorneys general clearer authority to challenge the Obama regulatory agenda, the documents show. </div><div>
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</div><div> “It is quite new,” said Paul Nolette, a politicalscience professor at Marquette University and the author of the forthcoming book “Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policy Making in Contemporary America.” “The scope, size and tenor of these collaborations is, without question, unprecedented.” And it is an emerging practice that several former attorneys general say threatens the integrity of the office. “It is a magnificent and noble institution, the office of attorney general, as it is truly the lawyer for the people,” said Terry Goddard, a Democrat who served two terms as Arizona’s attorney general and who, like Mr. Frohnmayer, reviewed copies of the documents collected by The Times. “That independence is clearly at risk here. What is happening diminishes the reputation of individual attorneys general and the community as a group.” Mr. Pruitt, who has emerged as a hero to conservative activists, dismissed this criticism as misinformed. “Those kinds of questions arise from the environment we are in — a very dysfunctional, distrustful political environment,” Mr. Pruitt said in an interview. “I can say to you that is not who we are or have ever been, and despite those criticisms we sit around and make decisions about what is right, and what represents adherence to the rule of law, and we seek to advance that and try to do the best we can to educate people about our viewpoint.” In a state dominated by the energy industry, Mr. Pruitt’s stands have been widely popular. “Attorney General Pruitt has been a champion for our state,” said State Senator Mike Schulz, a Republican who is the majority floor leader. “The State of Oklahoma is in a better position than the E.P.A. to regulate drilling.” But Mr. Pruitt’s ties with industry are clear. One of his closest partners has been Harold G. Hamm, the billionaire chief executive of Continental 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 5/16 Resources, which is among the biggest oil and gas drilling companies in both Oklahoma and North Dakota. This year, Mr. Pruitt joined with a group aligned with Mr. Hamm to sue the Interior Department over its plan to consider adding animals such as the lesser prairie chicken to the endangered species list, a move that Mr. Hamm has said could knock out “some of the most promising land for oil and gas leases in the country.” The suit was filed after Mr. Hamm announced that he would serve as the chairman of Mr. Pruitt’s reelection campaign. “Time and time again, General Pruitt has stood up and bravely fought for the rights of Oklahomans in those instances when the federal government has overextended its hand,” Mr. Hamm said as his role in Mr. Pruitt’s reelection effort was announced. A Potent Ally Energy industry executives and lobbyists from across the United States saw great potential in Mr. Pruitt, a gifted politician who had been a state legislator and a minorleague baseball team coowner and executive before running for attorney general. Among them was Andrew P. Miller, a patrician 81yearold former Virginia attorney general. Mr. Miller is a regular at gatherings of state attorneys general at resort destinations, and his client list includes TransCanada, the backer of the Keystone XL pipeline; the Southern Company, the Georgiabased electric utility, which has a large number of coalburning power plants; and the investor group behind the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska. For the energy industry, Mr. Pruitt was an easy choice. “There’s a mentality emanating from Washington today that says, ‘We know best,’ ” Mr. Pruitt said during his 2010 campaign. “It’s a onesizefitsall 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 6/16 strategy, a commandandcontrol kind of approach, and we’ve got to make sure we know how to respond to that.” Among Mr. Pruitt’s first acts was to create a “federalism office,” which challenged the Obama administration’s plan to reduce haze in southwestern Oklahoma by requiring coalburning electricity plants in the state to install new pollution control equipment. His interaction with the industry, Mr. Pruitt said during an interview at his Oklahoma City office, has been motivated by a desire to gather information from experts, while defending his state’s longstanding tradition of selfdetermination. That ethos, he said, is depicted in a large oil painting in his office that shows local authorities with rifles at the ready confronting outsiders during the land rush era. “The founders recognized that power concentrated in a few is a bad thing,” Mr. Pruitt said. Mr. Miller made it his job to promote Mr. Pruitt nationally, both as a spokesman for the Rule of Law campaign and as the president of the Republican Attorneys General Association. “I regard the general as the A.G. best suited to take this lead on this question of federalism,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff in April 2012. “The touchstone of this initiative would be to organize the states to resist federal ‘overreach’ whenever it occurs.” To Mr. Miller, having Mr. Pruitt as an advocate fit a broader strategy. He wanted state attorneys general to band together the way they did when they challenged the health care law in 2010. In that effort, they hired a major national corporate law firm, Baker Hostetler, to argue the case, with much of the bill being paid through donations from executives at corporations that oppose the law. 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 7/16 In his initial appeal to Mr. Pruitt, Mr. Miller insisted that his approach was not “client driven.” But he soon began to name individual clients — TransCanada and Pebble Mine in Alaska — that he wanted to include in the effort. The E.P.A. has held up the Pebble Mine project, which could potentially yield 80 billion pounds of copper, after concluding it would “threaten one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries.” “This strike force ought to take the form of a national state litigation team to challenge the E.P.A.’s overreach,” Mr. Miller said in an email to Mr. Pruitt’s office. “Like the Dalmatian at the proverbial firehouse, it could move out smartly when the alarm sounded.” A Call to Arms Mr. Miller’s pitch to Mr. Pruitt became a reality early last year at the historic Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City, where he brought together an extraordinary assembly of energy industry power brokers and attorneys general from nine states for what he called the Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels. The meeting took place in the shadow of office towers that dominate Oklahoma City’s skyline and are home to Continental Resources, a leader in the nation’s fastestgrowing oil field, the Bakken formation of North Dakota, as well as Devon Energy, which drilled 1,275 new wells last year. More liberal attorneys general, such as Douglas F. Gansler, Democrat of Maryland, did not participate. “Indeed, General Gansler would in all likelihood try to hijack your summit,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt in an email. “At best you would be left to preside over a debate, rather than a call to arms.” Oklahoma energy companies were there, according to an agenda, joined by executives from Peabody Energy of Missouri, the world’s largest private 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 8/16 sector coal producer, as well as the Southern Company, which has aggressively challenged federal air pollution mandates. The nation’s top corporate energy regulatory lawyers were there, too, including F. William Brownell, a senior partner at the law firm Hunton & Williams, which has spent more than 25 years fighting the enforcement of the Clean Air Act. The event was organized by an energyindustryfunded law and economics center at George Mason University of Virginia. The center is part of the brain trust of conservative, proindustry groups that have worked from the sidelines to help Mr. Pruitt and other attorneys general. And there was nothing ambiguous about the agenda. “Suggested Responses to Assaults on Federalism” was the topic of one breakfast meeting, moderated by Attorney General Wayne K. Stenehjem of North Dakota, that showcased Mr. Brownell and three other top corporate regulatory lawyers. Mr. Hamm was the featured dinner speaker. “We need to ensure the robust role of the states,” said Paul M. Seby, another coal industry lawyer who attended. “And as the chief law enforcement officers, it is not surprising this is becoming a cornerstone of attorney generals’ attention.” Attorneys general said they had no choice but to team up with corporate America. “When the federal government oversteps its legal authority and takes actions that hurt our businesses and residents, it’s entirely appropriate for us to partner with the adversely affected private entities in fighting back,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida, whose top deputy attended the meeting. A ‘Strike Force’ The impact of the gathering was immediate. A week later, a new 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 9/16 Federalism in Environmental Policy task force was established by lawyers in the offices of 19 state attorneys general, according to email records obtained from the office of Attorney General Timothy C. Fox of Montana, who had participated in the Oklahoma meeting. “This message is in followup to the excellent environmental conference put on last week by George Mason University and hosted by the Oklahoma attorney general’s office,” said one email sent by Katie Spohn, the deputy attorney general in Nebraska. “In order to continue our coordination of efforts regarding Federalism in Environmental Policy, I am seeking input from each state who participated in the conference.” Mr. Miller was pleased. “Just the kind of strike force I was talking about,” he said in an interview. And the input poured forth. The states worked to detail major federal environmental action, like efforts to curb fish kills, reduce ozone pollution, slow climate change and tighten regulation of coal ash. Then they identified which attorney general’s office was best positioned to try to monitor it and, if necessary, attempt to block it. Followup by Mr. Pruitt’s federalism office often came after coordination with industry representatives, especially from Devon Energy. The company, one of the most important financial supporters for the Republican Attorneys General Association, is guarded about its public profile. But it readily turned to Mr. Pruitt and his staff for help, setting up meetings for the attorney general with its chief executive, its chief lobbyist and other important players. “We have a clear obligation to our shareholders and others to be involved in these discussions,” John Porretto, a Devon spokesman, said in a statement. While some of the exchanges were general in character, others were quite explicit, especially the communication about the E.P.A.’s methane regulations that had prompted Mr. Whitsitt, the Devon official, to propose that Mr. Pruitt 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 10/16 send a letter to the agency. “Just a note to pass along the electronic version of the draft letter to Lisa Jackson at E.P.A.,” said one September 2011 letter to Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff from Mr. Whitsitt. “We have no pride of authorship, so whatever you do on this is fine.” Mr. Pruitt took the letter and, after changing just 37 words in the 1,016 word draft, copied it onto his state government letterhead and sent it to Ms. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator. That was just one of his challenges to Washington. Devon officials also turned to Mr. Pruitt to enlist other Republican attorneys general and Republican governors to oppose a rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management that would regulate hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal land. “As promised, we are sending you the attached draft of the R.G.A./RAGA followup letter to President Obama opposing B.L.M.’s proposed rule,” Brent Rockwood, Devon’s director of government affairs, wrote to Mr. Pruitt’s staff in late 2012, in an email marked “confidential.” Weeks later, that letter was sent to Mr. Obama without only a few word changes, signed by Mr. Pruitt and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, who was the head of the Republican Governors Association at the time. Company officials again expressed their pleasure to Mr. Pruitt. “I’ve learned that we’re having an effect — and may be able to have more, perhaps even to having the rule withdrawn or shifted to almost a reportingonly one,” Mr. Whitsitt wrote, in another email marked “confidential.” The rule — which the industry claims would cost $346 million a year to comply with — has still not been issued. 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 11/16 Coordination between the corporations and teams of attorneys general involved in the Rule of Law effort also involves actual litigation to try to clear roadblocks to energy projects, documents show. Energy producers, for instance, wanted to sue the Interior Department as it considered adding animals such as the sage grouse — which nests near sites of oil and gas drilling — to a list of endangered species, a move that could put tens of thousands of acres off limits to new drilling. The energy companies could have sued on their own, but their executives believed that the case would be more potent by bringing in Mr. Pruitt and the weight of the State of Oklahoma. “We just came to the conclusion he would be the best person to be the lead attorney on this,” said Mike McDonald, an owner of Triad Energy, a small oil and gas exploration company, and the president of a group that calls itself the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance. “He has exceeded our expectations.” For the industry, the state is an extremely valued partner because states are granted “special solicitude” from the federal courts, a critical advantage to private companies that helps confer legal standing and means that a matter is less likely to be dismissed. Mr. Pruitt’s office, in a statement to The Times, rejected any suggestion that the attorney general has been wrong to send to Washington comment letters written by industry lobbyists, or to take up their side in litigation. “The A.G.’s office seeks input from the energy industry to determine reallife harm stemming from proposed federal regulations or actions,” the statement said. “It is the content of the request not the source of the request that is relevant.” Persuading lawmakers to offer legislation has been another effective lobbying tool. In West Virginia, Mr. Miller handed Attorney General Patrick 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 12/16 Morrisey a draft of legislation that he argued would put West Virginia in a better position to sue the Obama administration over proposed regulations to tighten pollution controls on power plants, emails show. “I trust you will find the legislation acceptable in its present form,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Morrisey in February, referring to a private meeting the two had had in the law library of Mr. Morrisey’s office in Charleston. “If so, I would appreciate your having it introduced by your friends in both the Senate and the House.” A version of the bill was introduced and passed by the West Virginia Legislature in March. Delegate Rupert Phillips Jr., the chief sponsor of a second bill that also contained language identical to what Mr. Miller had requested, said in an interview that he had acted with Mr. Morrisey’s support, an account supported by William B. Raney, the president of the West Virginia Coal Association. “It is nice to have everybody singing from the same sheet of music,” Mr. Raney said. A spokesman for Mr. Morrisey disputed this account, saying that while he supported the effort to challenge the rule, he did not play a role in promoting the legislation. Blurred Lines The work in Mr. Pruitt’s office has sometimes seemed to blur the distinction between his official duties and the advancement of his political career. Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff, Crystal Drwenski, served as gatekeeper to his office, arranging meetings and helping companies get Mr. Pruitt and his staff to intervene with the federal authorities. But Ms. Drwenski also played an important supplemental role for the attorney general: fundraising aide. 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 13/16 “A.G. Pruitt is working with the Republican Attorneys General Association on their national meeting in Washington,” Ms. Drwenski wrote to Mr. Whitsitt. “The benefit of membership and participation is having 25 Republican A.G.s in a room to discuss policy issues.” Ms. Drwenski wanted Devon Energy’s help in enlisting the American Petroleum Institute, and Mr. Whitsitt agreed. “I’ve put in a plug to A.P.I.,” Mr. Whitsitt wrote back to Ms. Drwenski, a few hours after her request, having reached out to the organization’s senior lobbyist, Marty Durbin. “He is expecting a call.” In addition to the American Petroleum Institute, major energy companies — ConocoPhillips, the oil and gas company; Alpha Natural Resources, a coal mining giant; and American Electric Power, the nation’s biggest coal consumer — have recently joined the Republican Attorneys General Association, bringing in hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to the group, internal documents show. By last year, the association was starting to pull in so much money under Mr. Pruitt’s leadership that it decided to break free from its partnership with the Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that represents state elected officials. Within months, the association also set up the Rule of Law Defense Fund, yet another legal entity that allows companies benefiting from the actions of Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general to make anonymous donations, in unlimited amounts. Fundraising skyrocketed. The $16 million that the association has collected this year is nearly four times the amount it collected in 2010, money it used mostly to buy millions of dollars’ worth of television advertisements in states like Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado and Nevada, all places where Republican candidates for attorney general won election. The fundraising has taken place on the state level as well. Oklahoma Gas 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 14/16 & Electric — a forprofit utility that Mr. Pruitt joined with in federal court to fight the E.P.A. — invited its employees to the Petroleum Club in downtown Oklahoma City late last year for a fundraising event for Mr. Pruitt, drawing donations from about 45 company employees, including the chief executive. Four days later, Mr. Pruitt filed a new appeal in the case — timing that the utility said was a coincidence. While Mr. Pruitt’s efforts to raise money for the Republican Attorneys General Association have been an unqualified success, the lawsuits and regulatory appeals he has filed have yielded mixed results. In May, the Supreme Court declined to take up the appeal on the Oklahoma Gas & Electric matter, meaning the company is now moving ahead on retrofitting its coalburning plants. But other lawsuits are pending, including Mr. Pruitt’s challenge of the DoddFrank law, which rewrote the nation’s financial regulations, and, perhaps most important, his challenge of the tax subsidies that are a critical part of the Obama administration’s health care law. Mr. Pruitt’s staff has juggled various duties — helping major corporations push their challenges against Washington, and then turning to these same executives, at times, to ask them for financial support. For example, Ms. Drwenski, who is no longer Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff, asked Devon Energy in 2012, on a workday afternoon, for help in signing up the American Petroleum Institute as a member of the Republican Attorneys General Association. She used her personal email account to send out the initial request. But the subsequent exchange took place on her work email account, even though Oklahoma state law prohibits state officials from using state property or time to solicit political contributions. A spokesman for Mr. Pruitt said, “It is entirely possible she could have been taking a late lunch.” 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?r=0 15/16 Mr. Pruitt, who ran unopposed to win a second term, has not needed much of the money himself, but his fundraising efforts have greatly benefited other Republicans running for the job. That explains the partylike atmosphere late last month in South Florida, where members of the Republican Attorneys General Association held their fall meeting at the chic Fontainebleau Miami Beach, along with hundreds of lobbyists, lawyers and corporate executives, whose companies had paid as much as $125,000 for the privilege to celebrate with them. During the opening reception, on a giant terrace overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, with red, white and blue lights beaming onto the walls and rock music blasting, the Republican attorneys general strode to the stage to trumpet their new majority in the states. Mr. Pruitt was there for the weekend’s festivities, an event at which Devon Energy served as a corporate host, with banners hung in the hotel hallways featuring the corporate logo. The Oklahoma attorney general’s stay was brief. The Rule of Law campaign had a new and urgent target. “Our president sees himself as above the law,” Mr. Pruitt said from Oklahoma City as he announced several days later yet another front in the campaign, a lawsuit he planned to file to challenge the Obama administration’s new immigration policies. “We will take action to hold him accountable. Correction: December 14, 2014 A picture credit last Sunday with the continuation of an article about Republican attorneys general in several states who have formed a secretive alliance with some of the nation’s top energy producers to oppose President Obama’s regulatory agenda misidentified the photographer in some editions. The picture, of Scott Pruitt, the 12/5/2015 Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energyfirmsinsecretivealliancewithattorneysgeneral.html?_r=0 16/16 Oklahoma attorney general, was taken by Dylan Hollingsworth, not by Nick Oxford. Nick Madigan contributed reporting. A version of this article appears in print on December 7, 2014, on page A1 of the New</div><div>
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</div><div>Michael Bloomberg has not been shy about using his vast personal wealth (estimated at $40.9 billion) on political spending [3]. Last year the former New York City mayor announced plans to spend $50 million building a national grassroots movement to curb gun violence. It's a significant amount, especially considering the fact that the National Rifle Association spends only $20 million [4] on political activities each year.</div><div>
</div><div>Now the perennial putative presidential candidate has set his sights on a new target: carbon emissions. Last month, he announced his plans [5] to run a series of political television ads attacking the attorneys general of four states — Florida, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin — who are suing the Obama administration over new regulations aimed at reducing emissions [6] from power plants. The attorneys general claim the rules will drive up energy costs and destroy coal industry jobs. Notably, the four states have been presidential battlegrounds.</div><div>
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</div><div>Two of the Bloomberg ads describe the attorneys general as bending to special interests and taking donations from “polluters.” The ad airing in Michigan accuses Attorney General Bill Schuette of “putting polluters and his campaign contributors ahead [5] of protecting Michigan families.” The Florida ad describes Pam Bondi, a Republican, as “an attorney general for polluters, not for us [5].”</div><div>
</div><div>“These four attorneys general are trying to stop the president from doing something that I think is terribly important,” Bloomberg told [5] the New York Times. “I want the public to know what they’re doing.”</div><div>
</div><div>The regulations, part of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan [7] (CPP), which was introduced in August, are a central element of Obama’s Climate Action Plan [8], which aims to fulfill the president’s 2009 pledge to reduce the nation’s overall greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent [8] below 2005 levels by 2020. To meet that goal, the CPP sets state-by-state targets to cut carbon emissions from the energy sector 32 percent [9] from 2005 levels by 2030.</div><div>
</div><div>The White House asserts that by setting the goals of CPP and allowing states to create tailored plans to meet them, there will be huge benefits for public health, the national economy and savings for average Americans. Specifically, the White House says it will create tens of thousands of jobs, lower the costs of renewable energy and save consumers $155 billion between 2020 and 2030. The CPP will also:</div><div>
</div><div>Prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths</div><div>Prevent 1,700 non-fatal heart attacks</div><div>Prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children</div><div>Prevent 300,000 missed workdays and school days</div><div>Save Americans nearly $85 a year on energy bills</div><div>Save enough energy to power 30 million homes</div><div>Lead to 30 percent more renewable energy generation</div><div>Still, the CPP has met with fierce, primarily Republican opposition, with conservative critics saying it represents an unconstitutional federal overreach, will drive up energy bills and reduce the electric grid’s reliability. The EPA has firmly dismissed these claims. Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator of the agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, said the plan is “based on a sound legal and technical foundation," adding that it "really puts states in the driver's seat [10]."</div><div>
</div><div>The four attorneys general who are the targets of Bloomberg's ads are fighting back. According to the New York Times, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel said in an email statement that Bloomberg is an “out-of-touch billionaire.” And in a statement, Florida attorney general Pam Bondi described Bloomberg as a “billionaire bully [11]”:</div><div>
</div><div>Florida has a great and conscientious track record of improving its air quality and protecting its environment … Now a billionaire bully is attacking Florida, and 26 other states, for having the audacity of defending their citizens against the EPA’s heavy-handed and unlawful regulations. This bully wants to defend the federal government; we want to protect the people we serve.</div><div>
</div><div>In her announcement [12] about the lawsuit, Bondi claimed the EPA rule sets an "unrealistic" timeframe to cut carbon emissions by 2030 and would "require the use of costly and unproven technologies."</div><div>
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</div><div>Twenty states are challenging the EPA rule in addition to the four targeted by Bloomberg: West Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, the Arizona Corporation Commission, and the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.</div><div>
</div><div>Environmental concerns are not new for Bloomberg. During his tenure as mayor of New York, 2002 to 2013, he became known as one of the most environmentally minded big city mayors in the country, introducing in 2007 PLaNYC [13], an aggressive program to overhaul the city’s environmental sustainability by 2030 that tackled 10 specific areas: housing and neighborhoods, parks and public spaces, brownfields, waterways, water supply, transportation, energy, air quality, solid waste, and climate change. According to NYC.gov [14], “Over 97% of the 127 initiatives in PlaNYC were launched within one year of its release and almost two-thirds of its 2009 milestones were achieved or mostly achieved.”</div><div>
</div><div>A main benefactor of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal [15] campaign, Bloomberg has been a longtime opponent of coal, characterizing it as a naturally dying industry. In an August op-ed, he wrote [16]:</div><div>
</div><div>The overblown political rhetoric about the plan tends to obscure the market reality that the coal industry has been in steady decline for a decade, partly as a result of the natural gas boom, but mostly because consumers are demanding cleaner air and action on climate change … King Coal is dying of natural causes: Market forces, technological advances, and public demands for clean air and climate action have combined to make alternative sources of energy more financially attractive. The price of new wind power, for example, is lower than that of coal in most parts of the country.</div><div>
</div><div>Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said that Bloomberg’s new ads “amount to a defense [5] of the White House over its Clean Power Plan.”</div><div>
</div><div>Whether this defense will work remains to be seen. But one thing is for certain: Coal is on the decline and fewer Americans are dying because of it. “A decade ago, coal pollution was killing 13,000 people a year,” Bloomberg wrote in his op-ed. “Today, the number is down to 7,500, which means that more than 5,000 Americans are living longer, healthier lives each year thanks to cleaner power [16].”</div><div>
</div><div>Reynard Loki is AlterNet's environment and food editor. Follow him on Twitter @reynardloki [17]. Email him at reynard@alternet.org [18].</div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/11/wellspring-gives-big-boost-to-judicial-crisis-network-with-6-6-million-grant/</div><div>
</div><div>secretive nonprofit that has given millions of dollars to conservative 501(c)(4) groups over the years sank more than $6.6 million into the Judicial Crisis Network in 2014, giving a significant boost to a group that has become increasingly involved in not only state judicial but also attorneys general races.</div><div>The donor, the Wellspring Committee, gave out nearly $8.3 million in grants last year, according to a new filing with the IRS, more than triple what it donated the year before. The sum was more than Wellspring has given away in any year except 2010, when it sent $8.4 million to like-minded organizations. That year, though, JCN and an offshoot group received just $400,000 from Wellspring, a sliver of what it got last year.</div><div>The bond between the two groups is strong — familial, even. Wellspring was founded and is still headed by Ann Corkery, a lawyer who for years has been involved in conservative fundraising and also helped launch JCN. Her husband, Neil, is JCN’s treasurer. Their daughter, Kathleen, is on Wellspring’s board, and the secretary-treasurer of the group, Michael Casey, is the son of one of JCN’s board members.</div><div>Wellspring received all of its 2014 revenue of $7.8 million from just three contributions — one of which was a transfer of $6.95 million, according to the annual form 990 it filed this month. Like other (c)(4) organizations, Wellspring is not required to disclose the identities of its donors. The group’s 990 says its “mission is to advance limited government and free markets.” But it functions as little more than a conduit, with no program activities of its own and virtually all of its money going out to other groups....</div><div>secretive nonprofit that has given millions of dollars to conservative 501(c)(4) groups over the years sank more than $6.6 million into the Judicial Crisis Network in 2014, giving a significant boost to a group that has become increasingly involved in not only state judicial but also attorneys general races.</div><div>The donor, the Wellspring Committee, gave out nearly $8.3 million in grants last year, according to a new filing with the IRS, more than triple what it donated the year before. The sum was more than Wellspring has given away in any year except 2010, when it sent $8.4 million to like-minded organizations. That year, though, JCN and an offshoot group received just $400,000 from Wellspring, a sliver of what it got last year.</div><div>The bond between the two groups is strong — familial, even. Wellspring was founded and is still headed by Ann Corkery, a lawyer who for years has been involved in conservative fundraising and also helped launch JCN. Her husband, Neil, is JCN’s treasurer. Their daughter, Kathleen, is on Wellspring’s board, and the secretary-treasurer of the group, Michael Casey, is the son of one of JCN’s board members.</div><div>Wellspring received all of its 2014 revenue of $7.8 million from just three contributions — one of which was a transfer of $6.95 million, according to the annual form 990 it filed this month. Like other (c)(4) organizations, Wellspring is not required to disclose the identities of its donors. The group’s 990 says its “mission is to advance limited government and free markets.” But it functions as little more than a conduit, with no program activities of its own and virtually all of its money going out to other groups.</div><div>JCN was formed in 2005 as the Judicial Confirmation Network to help get President George W. Bush’s Supreme Court appointees approved by the Senate. After President Barack Obama was elected, though, “Confirmation” became “Crisis,” and the group began fighting to block his nominees to the high court. It also started spending large sums in some states to influence judicial and attorneys general races.</div><div>JCN also sent funds to other groups that worked to sway state judgeship elections, such as the Republican State Leadership Committee, which spent more money putting conservatives on the bench in more states than any other outside group in 2014, according to the nonpartisan organization Justice at Stake.</div><div>But attorneys general have been a growing focus of conservative donor groups. Carrie Severino, JCN’s chief counsel, said in 2012 that conservative AGs, many of whom have challenged Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank financial services overhaul and EPA regulations, are “emerging as key leaders in the battle for limited constitutional government.”</div><div>In 2014 JCN gave $1 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association, making it the third largest donor to the GOP organization that year. Between mid-2013 and mid-2014 JCN also donated $1.35 million — the largest grant it handed out in that period — to another dark money group, the American Future Fund, which has its own project to elect GOP attorneys general and is also a donor toRAGA. According to RAGA’s disclosure filings, JCN gave it another $200,000 in the first half of 2015.</div><div>Similarly, Wellspring gave $350,000 to something called the American Dream Initiative last year — a group run by Dan Backer that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking the Democratic candidate in Texas’ 2014 attorney general race.</div><div>This fall, JCN has spent at least $200,000 on TV and digital ads criticizing Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts, comparing them to former Justice David Souter — a Republican appointee who often sided with the more liberal wing of the court. While Roberts and Kennedy can hardly be called liberals (particularly Roberts), two of the court’s decisions last term, one upholding the Affordable Care Act and one legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, triggered widespread disgust on the right. JCN’s statement announcing the ads called Kennedy and Roberts “examples of bad GOP appointments.” The group has a website describing the judicial appointment philosophies of the Republican presidential candidates.</div><div>Our efforts to reach Wellspring and JCN for comment by phone and on foot were unsuccessful. We visited the address JCN lists on its 990 — 722 12th St. NW, fourth floor — and found only Americans for Tax Reform, the group headed by Grover Norquist that asks candidates to sign a pledge saying they won’t raise taxes. An ATR receptionist was noncommittal about whether JCN had offices in the suite but said she would get a message to someone connected with the group.</div><div>Other Wellspring grants went to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization whose executive vice president, Leonard Leo, was instrumental in getting both Wellspring and JCN off the ground, and the Catholic Association.</div><div>
</div><div>Categories: 501(c) groups Outside Money</div><div>
</div><div>Tags: american dream initiative, American Future Fund, ann corkery, carrie severino, Dan Backer, Federalist Society, Judicial Crisis Network, leonard leo, Neil Corkery, republican attorneys general association,Republican State Leadership Committee, Viveca Novak, Wellspring Committee</div><div></div><div>
</div><div>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html</div><div>
</div><div>abbot pruitt epa clean air plan</div><div>
</div><div>1st time majority gop, backroom deals</div><div>
</div><div>12/14 lipton:</div><div>
</div><div>Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General</div><div>
</div><div>The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.</div><div>
</div><div>But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three-page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying.</div><div>
</div><div>“Outstanding!” William F. Whitsitt, who at the time directed government relations at the company, said in a note to Mr. Pruitt’s office. The attorney general’s staff had taken Devon’s draft, copied it onto state government stationery with only a few word changes, and sent it to Washington with the attorney general’s signature. “The timing of the letter is great, given our meeting this Friday with both E.P.A. and the White House.”</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Whitsitt then added, “Please pass along Devon’s thanks to Attorney General Pruitt.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Courting Favor</div><div>
</div><div>Articles in this series examine the explosion in lobbying of state attorneys general by corporate interests and the millions in campaign donations they now provide.</div><div>
</div><div>The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an open-records request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found.</div><div>
</div><div>Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year.</div><div>
</div><div>They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices.</div><div>
</div><div>The Times reported previously how individual attorneys general have shut down investigations, changed policies or agreed to more corporate-friendly settlement terms after intervention by lobbyists and lawyers, many of whom are also campaign benefactors.</div><div>
</div><div>But the attorneys general are also working collectively. Democrats for more than a decade have teamed up with environmental groups such as the Sierra Club to use the court system to impose stricter regulation. But never before have attorneys general joined on this scale with corporate interests to challenge Washington and file lawsuits in federal court.</div><div>
</div><div>Out of public view, corporate representatives and attorneys general are coordinating legal strategy and other efforts to fight federal regulations, according to a review of thousands of emails and court documents and dozens of interviews.</div><div>
</div><div>“When you use a public office, pretty shamelessly, to vouch for a private party with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice,” said David B. Frohnmayer, a Republican who served a decade as attorney general in Oregon. “The puppeteer behind the stage is pulling strings, and you can’t see. I don’t like that. And when it is exposed, it makes you feel used.”</div><div>
</div><div>For Mr. Pruitt, the benefits have been clear. Lobbyists and company officials have been notably solicitous, helping him raise his profile as president for two years of the Republican Attorneys General Association, a post he used to help start what he and allies called the Rule of Law campaign, which was intended to push back against Washington.</div><div>
</div><div>That campaign, in which attorneys general band together to operate like a large national law firm, has been used to back lawsuits and other challenges against the Obama administration on environmental issues, the Affordable Care Act and securities regulation. The most recent target is the president’s executive action on immigration.</div><div>
</div><div>“We are living in the midst of a constitutional crisis,” Mr. Pruitt told energy industry lobbyists and conservative state legislators at a conference in Dallas in July, after being welcomed with a standing ovation. “The trajectory of our nation is at risk and at stake as we respond to what is going on.”</div><div>
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</div><div>DOCUMENT</div><div>
</div><div>A Window Into a Secret Alliance: Attorneys General and the Energy Industry</div><div>
</div><div>The New York Times submitted open-records requests for correspondence between certain energy industry executives and attorneys general who are helping lead an effort they call the Rule of Law campaign to combat Obama administration regulations. Thousands of pages of correspondence emerged. Here is a sampling of the documents, showing how the regulated industries and their lobbyists have secretly worked with the attorneys general to combat Washington.</div><div>
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</div><div> OPEN DOCUMENT</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt has responded aggressively, and with a lot of helping hands. Energy industry lobbyists drafted letters for him to send to the E.P.A., the Interior Department, the Office of Management and Budget and even President Obama, The Times found.</div><div>
</div><div>Industries that he regulates have also joined him as plaintiffs in court challenges, a departure from the usual role of the state attorney general, who traditionally sues companies to force compliance with state law.</div><div>
</div><div>Energy industry lobbyists have also distributed draft legislation to attorneys general and asked them to help push it through state legislatures to give the attorneys general clearer authority to challenge the Obama regulatory agenda, the documents show.</div><div>
</div><div>“It is quite new,” said Paul Nolette, a political-science professor at Marquette University and the author of the forthcoming book “Federalism on Trial: State Attorneys General and National Policy Making in Contemporary America.” “The scope, size and tenor of these collaborations is, without question, unprecedented.”</div><div>
</div><div>And it is an emerging practice that several former attorneys general say threatens the integrity of the office.</div><div>
</div><div>“It is a magnificent and noble institution, the office of attorney general, as it is truly the lawyer for the people,” said Terry Goddard, a Democrat who served two terms as Arizona’s attorney general and who, like Mr. Frohnmayer, reviewed copies of the documents collected by The Times. “That independence is clearly at risk here. What is happening diminishes the reputation of individual attorneys general and the community as a group.”</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt, who has emerged as a hero to conservative activists, dismissed this criticism as misinformed.</div><div>
</div><div>“Those kinds of questions arise from the environment we are in — a very dysfunctional, distrustful political environment,” Mr. Pruitt said in an interview. “I can say to you that is not who we are or have ever been, and despite those criticisms we sit around and make decisions about what is right, and what represents adherence to the rule of law, and we seek to advance that and try to do the best we can to educate people about our viewpoint.”</div><div>
</div><div>In a state dominated by the energy industry, Mr. Pruitt’s stands have been widely popular. “Attorney General Pruitt has been a champion for our state,” said State Senator Mike Schulz, a Republican who is the majority floor leader. “The State of Oklahoma is in a better position than the E.P.A. to regulate drilling.”</div><div>
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</div><div>But Mr. Pruitt’s ties with industry are clear. One of his closest partners has been Harold G. Hamm, the billionaire chief executive of Continental Resources, which is among the biggest oil and gas drilling companies in both Oklahoma and North Dakota.</div><div>
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</div><div>GRAPHIC</div><div>
</div><div>A Letter From Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Written Almost Entirely by Energy Company Officials</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy’s lawyers and lobbyists drafted letters and provided them to Attorney General Scott Pruitt to send to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department and even President Obama directly. Most of those letters were signed by Mr. Pruitt and sent with few changes. Here is one example, obtained through open-records requests.</div><div>
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</div><div> OPEN GRAPHIC</div><div>
</div><div>This year, Mr. Pruitt joined with a group aligned with Mr. Hamm to sue the Interior Department over its plan to consider adding animals such as the lesser prairie chicken to the endangered species list, a move that Mr. Hamm has said could knock out “some of the most promising land for oil and gas leases in the country.” The suit was filed after Mr. Hamm announced that he would serve as the chairman of Mr. Pruitt’s re-election campaign.</div><div>
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</div><div>“Time and time again, General Pruitt has stood up and bravely fought for the rights of Oklahomans in those instances when the federal government has overextended its hand,” Mr. Hamm said as his role in Mr. Pruitt’s re-election effort was announced.</div><div>
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</div><div>A Potent Ally</div><div>
</div><div>Energy industry executives and lobbyists from across the United States saw great potential in Mr. Pruitt, a gifted politician who had been a state legislator and a minor-league baseball team co-owner and executive before running for attorney general.</div><div>
</div><div>Among them was Andrew P. Miller, a patrician 81-year-old former Virginia attorney general. Mr. Miller is a regular at gatherings of state attorneys general at resort destinations, and his client list includes TransCanada, the backer of the Keystone XL pipeline; the Southern Company, the Georgia-based electric utility, which has a large number of coal-burning power plants; and the investor group behind the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska.</div><div>
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</div><div>For the energy industry, Mr. Pruitt was an easy choice.</div><div>
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</div><div>“There’s a mentality emanating from Washington today that says, ‘We know best,’ ” Mr. Pruitt said during his 2010 campaign. “It’s a one-size-fits-all strategy, a command-and-control kind of approach, and we’ve got to make sure we know how to respond to that.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Among Mr. Pruitt’s first acts was to create a “federalism office,” which challenged the Obama administration’s plan to reduce haze in southwestern Oklahoma by requiring coal-burning electricity plants in the state to install new pollution control equipment.</div><div>
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</div><div>His interaction with the industry, Mr. Pruitt said during an interview at his Oklahoma City office, has been motivated by a desire to gather information from experts, while defending his state’s longstanding tradition of self-determination.</div><div>
</div><div>That ethos, he said, is depicted in a large oil painting in his office that shows local authorities with rifles at the ready confronting outsiders during the land rush era. “The founders recognized that power concentrated in a few is a bad thing,” Mr. Pruitt said.</div><div>
</div><div>More of Nation’s Attorneys General Are Republican</div><div>
</div><div>Aided by record fund-raising by the Republican Attorneys General Association, Republicans, for the first time in modern history, will control a majority of state attorney general posts in 2015.</div><div>
</div><div>Party of incoming attorneys general by state, 2015</div><div>
</div><div>Money raised by attorney general associations</div><div>
</div><div>Number of attorneys general by party</div><div>
</div><div>CHART</div><div>
</div><div>Sources: Republican and Democratic Attorneys General Associations (fund-raising numbers); Paul Nolette, department of political science, Marquette University (attorneys general by party and state)</div><div>
</div><div>By Alicia Parlapiano</div><div>
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</div><div>Mr. Miller made it his job to promote Mr. Pruitt nationally, both as a spokesman for the Rule of Law campaign and as the president of the Republican Attorneys General Association.</div><div>
</div><div>“I regard the general as the A.G. best suited to take this lead on this question of federalism,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff in April 2012. “The touchstone of this initiative would be to organize the states to resist federal ‘overreach’ whenever it occurs.”</div><div>
</div><div>To Mr. Miller, having Mr. Pruitt as an advocate fit a broader strategy. He wanted state attorneys general to band together the way they did when they challenged the health care law in 2010. In that effort, they hired a major national corporate law firm, Baker Hostetler, to argue the case, with much of the bill being paid through donations from executives at corporations that oppose the law.</div><div>
</div><div>In his initial appeal to Mr. Pruitt, Mr. Miller insisted that his approach was not “client driven.” But he soon began to name individual clients — TransCanada and Pebble Mine in Alaska — that he wanted to include in the effort. The E.P.A. has held up the Pebble Mine project, which could potentially yield 80 billion pounds of copper, after concluding it would “threaten one of the world’s most productive salmon fisheries.”</div><div>
</div><div>“This strike force ought to take the form of a national state litigation team to challenge the E.P.A.’s overreach,” Mr. Miller said in an email to Mr. Pruitt’s office. “Like the Dalmatian at the proverbial firehouse, it could move out smartly when the alarm sounded.”</div><div>
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</div><div>A Call to Arms</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Miller’s pitch to Mr. Pruitt became a reality early last year at the historic Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City, where he brought together an extraordinary assembly of energy industry power brokers and attorneys general from nine states for what he called the Summit on Federalism and the Future of Fossil Fuels.</div><div>
</div><div>The meeting took place in the shadow of office towers that dominate Oklahoma City’s skyline and are home to Continental Resources, a leader in the nation’s fastest-growing oil field, the Bakken formation of North Dakota, as well as Devon Energy, which drilled 1,275 new wells last year.</div><div>
</div><div>More liberal attorneys general, such as Douglas F. Gansler, Democrat of Maryland, did not participate.</div><div>
</div><div>“Indeed, General Gansler would in all likelihood try to hijack your summit,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Pruitt in an email. “At best you would be left to preside over a debate, rather than a call to arms.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Top Individual Recipients of Energy Industry Money Since 2004</div><div>
</div><div>Many attorneys general collect contributions directly from energy industry donors, in addition to money passed on from party associations. Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma, for example, has received at least $215,574 from companies and industry employees since 2010, even though he ran unopposed in his most recent election.</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney generals highlighted in gray</div><div>
</div><div>will be in office in 2015</div><div>
</div><div>ATTORNEY</div><div>
</div><div>GENERAL</div><div>
</div><div>ELECTION</div><div>
</div><div>YEARS</div><div>
</div><div>PARTY</div><div>
</div><div>STATE</div><div>
</div><div>CONTRIBUTIONS</div><div>
</div><div>Greg Abbott</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Tex.</div><div>
</div><div>$2,459,204</div><div>
</div><div>2006, 2010</div><div>
</div><div>Tom Corbett</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Pa.</div><div>
</div><div>577,192</div><div>
</div><div>2004, 2008</div><div>
</div><div>Ken Paxton</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Tex.</div><div>
</div><div>488,411</div><div>
</div><div>2014</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Mike DeWine</div><div>
</div><div>Ohio</div><div>
</div><div>321,033</div><div>
</div><div>2010, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Luther Strange</div><div>
</div><div>Ala.</div><div>
</div><div>279,200</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>2010, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Gary K. King</div><div>
</div><div>D</div><div>
</div><div>N.M.</div><div>
</div><div>228,018</div><div>
</div><div>2006, 2010</div><div>
</div><div>Scott Pruitt</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Okla.</div><div>
</div><div>215,574</div><div>
</div><div>2010, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>Chris Koster</div><div>
</div><div>D</div><div>
</div><div>Mo.</div><div>
</div><div>202,419</div><div>
</div><div>2008, 2012</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Schuette</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Mich.</div><div>
</div><div>190,516</div><div>
</div><div>2010, 2014</div><div>
</div><div>R</div><div>
</div><div>Kenneth T.</div><div>
</div><div>Cuccinelli II</div><div>
</div><div>Va.</div><div>
</div><div>174,638</div><div>
</div><div>2009</div><div>
</div><div>Notes: 2014 data is incomplete. Scott Pruitt was unopposed in 2014.</div><div>
</div><div>Source: National Institute on Money in State Politics (energy industry contributions)</div><div>
</div><div>By Alicia Parlapiano</div><div>
</div><div>Oklahoma energy companies were there, according to an agenda, joined by executives from Peabody Energy of Missouri, the world’s largest private-sector coal producer, as well as the SouthernCompany, which has aggressively challenged federal air pollution mandates.</div><div>
</div><div>The nation’s top corporate energy regulatory lawyers were there, too, including F. William Brownell, a senior partner at the law firm Hunton & Williams, which has spent more than 25 years fighting the enforcement of the Clean Air Act.</div><div>
</div><div>The event was organized by an energy-industry-funded law and economics center at George Mason University of Virginia. The center is part of the brain trust of conservative, pro-industry groups that have worked from the sidelines to help Mr. Pruitt and other attorneys general.</div><div>
</div><div>And there was nothing ambiguous about the agenda.</div><div>
</div><div>“Suggested Responses to Assaults on Federalism” was the topic of one breakfast meeting, moderated by Attorney General Wayne K. Stenehjem of North Dakota, that showcased Mr. Brownell and three other top corporate regulatory lawyers. Mr. Hamm was the featured dinner speaker.</div><div>
</div><div>“We need to ensure the robust role of the states,” said Paul M. Seby, another coal industry lawyer who attended. “And as the chief law enforcement officers, it is not surprising this is becoming a cornerstone of attorney generals’ attention.”</div><div>
</div><div>Attorneys general said they had no choice but to team up with corporate America. “When the federal government oversteps its legal authority and takes actions that hurt our businesses and residents, it’s entirely appropriate for us to partner with the adversely affected private entities in fighting back,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi of Florida, whose top deputy attended the meeting.</div><div>
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</div><div>The impact of the gathering was immediate. A week later, a new Federalism in Environmental Policy task force was established by lawyers in the offices of 19 state attorneys general, according to email records obtained from the office of Attorney General Timothy C. Fox of Montana, who had participated in the Oklahoma meeting.</div><div>
</div><div>“This message is in follow-up to the excellent environmental conference put on last week by George Mason University and hosted by the Oklahoma attorney general’s office,” said one email sent byKatie Spohn, the deputy attorney general in Nebraska. “In order to continue our coordination of efforts regarding Federalism in Environmental Policy, I am seeking input from each state who participated in the conference.”</div><div>
</div><div>PATRICK MORRISEY The West Virginia attorney general got a draft bill from a coal industry lawyer. </div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Miller was pleased. “Just the kind of strike force I was talking about,” he said in an interview.</div><div>
</div><div>And the input poured forth. The states worked to detail major federal environmental action, like efforts to curb fish kills, reduce ozone pollution, slow climate change and tighten regulation of coal ash. Then they identified which attorney general’s office was best positioned to try to monitor it and, if necessary, attempt to block it.</div><div>
</div><div>Follow-up by Mr. Pruitt’s federalism office often came after coordination with industry representatives, especially from Devon Energy. The company, one of the most important financial supporters for the Republican Attorneys General Association, is guarded about its public profile. But it readily turned to Mr. Pruitt and his staff for help, setting up meetings for the attorney general with its chief executive, its chief lobbyist and other important players.</div><div>
</div><div>“We have a clear obligation to our shareholders and others to be involved in these discussions,” John Porretto, a Devon spokesman, said in a statement.</div><div>
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</div><div>While some of the exchanges were general in character, others were quite explicit, especially the communication about the E.P.A.’s methane regulations that had prompted Mr. Whitsitt, the Devon official, to propose that Mr. Pruitt send a letter to the agency.</div><div>
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</div><div>“Just a note to pass along the electronic version of the draft letter to Lisa Jackson at E.P.A.,” said one September 2011 letter to Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff from Mr. Whitsitt. “We have no pride of authorship, so whatever you do on this is fine.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Mr. Pruitt took the letter and, after changing just 37 words in the 1,016-word draft, copied it onto his state government letterhead and sent it to Ms. Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator.</div><div>
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</div><div>That was just one of his challenges to Washington. Devon officials also turned to Mr. Pruitt to enlist other Republican attorneys general and Republican governors to oppose a rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management that would regulate hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on federal land.</div><div>
</div><div>“As promised, we are sending you the attached draft of the R.G.A./RAGA follow-up letter to President Obama opposing B.L.M.’s proposed rule,” Brent Rockwood, Devon’s director of government affairs, wrote to Mr. Pruitt’s staff in late 2012, in an email marked “confidential.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Weeks later, that letter was sent to Mr. Obama without only a few word changes, signed by Mr. Pruitt and Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, who was the head of the Republican Governors Association at the time.</div><div>
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</div><div>ANDREW P. MILLER A version of the lobbyist’s bill was approved by the West Virginia Legislature. </div><div>
</div><div>Company officials again expressed their pleasure to Mr. Pruitt.</div><div>
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</div><div>“I’ve learned that we’re having an effect — and may be able to have more, perhaps even to having the rule withdrawn or shifted to almost a reporting-only one,” Mr. Whitsitt wrote, in another email marked “confidential.”</div><div>
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</div><div>The rule — which the industry claims would cost $346 million a year to comply with — has still not been issued.</div><div>
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</div><div>Coordination between the corporations and teams of attorneys general involved in the Rule of Law effort also involves actual litigation to try to clear roadblocks to energy projects, documents show.</div><div>
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</div><div>Energy producers, for instance, wanted to sue the Interior Department as it considered adding animals such as the sage grouse — which nests near sites of oil and gas drilling — to a list of endangered species, a move that could put tens of thousands of acres off limits to new drilling.</div><div>
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</div><div>The energy companies could have sued on their own, but their executives believed that the case would be more potent by bringing in Mr. Pruitt and the weight of the State of Oklahoma.</div><div>
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</div><div>“We just came to the conclusion he would be the best person to be the lead attorney on this,” said Mike McDonald, an owner of Triad Energy, a small oil and gas exploration company, and the president of a group that calls itself the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance. “He has exceeded our expectations.”</div><div>
</div><div>For the industry, the state is an extremely valued partner because states are granted “special solicitude” from the federal courts, a critical advantage to private companies that helps confer legal standing and means that a matter is less likely to be dismissed.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt’s office, in a statement to The Times, rejected any suggestion that the attorney general has been wrong to send to Washington comment letters written by industry lobbyists, or to take up their side in litigation.</div><div>
</div><div>“The A.G.’s office seeks input from the energy industry to determine real-life harm stemming from proposed federal regulations or actions,” the statement said. “It is the content of the request not the source of the request that is relevant.”</div><div>
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</div><div>HAROLD G. HAMM The oil drilling executive was the chairman of Mr. Pruitt’s re-election campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>Persuading lawmakers to offer legislation has been another effective lobbying tool. In West Virginia, Mr. Miller handed Attorney General Patrick Morrisey a draft of legislation that he argued would put West Virginia in a better position to sue the Obama administration over proposed regulations to tighten pollution controls on power plants, emails show.</div><div>
</div><div>“I trust you will find the legislation acceptable in its present form,” Mr. Miller wrote to Mr. Morrisey in February, referring to a private meeting the two had had in the law library of Mr. Morrisey’s office in Charleston. “If so, I would appreciate your having it introduced by your friends in both the Senate and the House.”</div><div>
</div><div>A version of the bill was introduced and passed by the West Virginia Legislature in March. Delegate Rupert Phillips Jr., the chief sponsor of a second bill that also contained language identical to what Mr. Miller had requested, said in an interview that he had acted with Mr. Morrisey’s support, an account supported by William B. Raney, the president of the West Virginia Coal Association.</div><div>
</div><div>“It is nice to have everybody singing from the same sheet of music,” Mr. Raney said.</div><div>
</div><div>A spokesman for Mr. Morrisey disputed this account, saying that while he supported the effort to challenge the rule, he did not play a role in promoting the legislation.</div><div>
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</div><div>Blurred Lines</div><div>
</div><div>The work in Mr. Pruitt’s office has sometimes seemed to blur the distinction between his official duties and the advancement of his political career.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff, Crystal Drwenski, served as gatekeeper to his office, arranging meetings and helping companies get Mr. Pruitt and his staff to intervene with the federal authorities. But Ms. Drwenski also played an important supplemental role for the attorney general: fund-raising aide.</div><div>
</div><div>“A.G. Pruitt is working with the Republican Attorneys General Association on their national meeting in Washington,” Ms. Drwenski wrote to Mr. Whitsitt. “The benefit of membership and participation is having 25 Republican A.G.s in a room to discuss policy issues.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ms. Drwenski wanted Devon Energy’s help in enlisting the American Petroleum Institute, and Mr. Whitsitt agreed.</div><div>
</div><div>“I’ve put in a plug to A.P.I.,” Mr. Whitsitt wrote back to Ms. Drwenski, a few hours after her request, having reached out to the organization’s senior lobbyist, Marty Durbin. “He is expecting a call.”</div><div>
</div><div>In addition to the American Petroleum Institute, major energy companies — ConocoPhillips, the oil and gas company; Alpha Natural Resources, a coal mining giant; and American Electric Power, the nation’s biggest coal consumer — have recently joined the Republican Attorneys General Association, bringing in hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to the group, internal documents show.</div><div>
</div><div>By last year, the association was starting to pull in so much money under Mr. Pruitt’s leadership that it decided to break free from its partnership with the Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that represents state elected officials. Within months, the association also set up the Rule of Law Defense Fund, yet another legal entity that allows companies benefiting from the actions of Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general to make anonymous donations, in unlimited amounts. Fund-raising skyrocketed.</div><div>
</div><div>The $16 million that the association has collected this year is nearly four times the amount it collected in 2010, money it used mostly to buy millions of dollars’ worth of television advertisements in states like Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado and Nevada, all places where Republican candidates for attorney general won election.</div><div>
</div><div>The fund-raising has taken place on the state level as well. Oklahoma Gas & Electric — a for-profit utility that Mr. Pruitt joined with in federal court to fight the E.P.A. — invited its employees to the Petroleum Club in downtown Oklahoma City late last year for a fund-raising event for Mr. Pruitt, drawing donations from about 45 company employees, including the chief executive. Four days later, Mr. Pruitt filed a new appeal in the case — timing that the utility said was a coincidence.</div><div>
</div><div>While Mr. Pruitt’s efforts to raise money for the Republican Attorneys General Association have been an unqualified success, the lawsuits and regulatory appeals he has filed have yielded mixed results.</div><div>
</div><div>In May, the Supreme Court declined to take up the appeal on the Oklahoma Gas & Electric matter, meaning the company is now moving ahead on retrofitting its coal-burning plants. But other lawsuits are pending, including Mr. Pruitt’s challenge of the Dodd-Frank law, which rewrote the nation’s financial regulations, and, perhaps most important, his challenge of the tax subsidies that are a critical part of the Obama administration’s health care law.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt’s staff has juggled various duties — helping major corporations push their challenges against Washington, and then turning to these same executives, at times, to ask them for financial support.</div><div>
</div><div>For example, Ms. Drwenski, who is no longer Mr. Pruitt’s chief of staff, asked Devon Energy in 2012, on a workday afternoon, for help in signing up the American Petroleum Institute as a member of the Republican Attorneys General Association.</div><div>
</div><div>She used her personal email account to send out the initial request. But the subsequent exchange took place on her work email account, even though Oklahoma state law prohibits state officials from using state property or time to solicit political contributions. A spokesman for Mr. Pruitt said, “It is entirely possible she could have been taking a late lunch.”</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt, who ran unopposed to win a second term, has not needed much of the money himself, but his fund-raising efforts have greatly benefited other Republicans running for the job.</div><div>
</div><div>That explains the partylike atmosphere late last month in South Florida, where members of the Republican Attorneys General Association held their fall meeting at the chic Fontainebleau Miami Beach, along with hundreds of lobbyists, lawyers and corporate executives, whose companies had paid as much as $125,000 for the privilege to celebrate with them.</div><div>
</div><div>During the opening reception, on a giant terrace overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, with red, white and blue lights beaming onto the walls and rock music blasting, the Republican attorneys general strode to the stage to trumpet their new majority in the states.</div><div>
</div><div>Mr. Pruitt was there for the weekend’s festivities, an event at which Devon Energy served as a corporate host, with banners hung in the hotel hallways featuring the corporate logo.</div><div>
</div><div>The Oklahoma attorney general’s stay was brief. The Rule of Law campaign had a new and urgent target.</div><div>
</div><div>“Our president sees himself as above the law,” Mr. Pruitt said from Oklahoma City as he announced several days later yet another front in the campaign, a lawsuit he planned to file to challenge the Obama administration’s new immigration policies. “We will take action to hold him accountable.</div><div>
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</div><div>JCN 2014 takeover AG nev, colo (mi wi?)</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorneys general become focus</div><div>
</div><div>JCN’s surging dark money dollars found a new outlet last year when the network ponied up $1 million to the Republican Attorneys General Association for its 2014 drive to help the GOP capture AG seats in Nevada, Colorado, and elsewhere. That made JCN RAGA’s third-largest donor in a year when RAGA was instrumental in helping Republicans capture enough AG posts that they now hold the majority. RAGA and similar 527 organizations must disclose their donors, but the sources of JCN’s contributions remain in the dark.</div><div>
</div><div>On top of that, JCN sent $750,000 to the Iowa-based American Future Fund, which started its own AG project between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013, tax filings show — JCN’s largest grant of that fiscal year. In turn, AFF chipped in $680,000 to RAGA last year.</div><div>
</div><div>State attorneys general had been moving higher on JCN’s political radar. Policy director and chief counsel Carrie Severino, who succeeded Wendy Long as JCN’s counsel in 2010 and, like her, once clerked for Justice Thomas, wrote in National Review right before the 2012 elections that conservative AGs are “emerging as key leaders in the battle for limited constitutional government.” Many of them, she noted, had joined the challenge to Obamacare, and a number were also fighting the Dodd-Frank financial services overhaul and EPA regulations.</div><div>
</div><div>Dark money ties that bind</div><div>
</div><div>The JCN spending through RAGA to boost the GOP’s share of AG slots is just one example of the synergies that the network has forged as a dark money vehicle. Other ties binding JCN to various groups it has funded — and received money from — are evident in the comings and goings of personnel, consultants, and board members. For instance, when Gary Marx stepped down as JCN’s executive director in mid-2011, he took a similar post with Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition (a group that Wellspring helped in 2010 with a $250,000 check). Likewise, last year Chris Jankowski became a consultant to JCN after spending several years running the Republican State Leadership Committee until he departed suddenly in early 2014, according to multiple sources. Both JCN and Wellspring had funneled hundreds of thousands to the RSLC, which has helped the GOP chart major gains in legislatures and other state offices. (RAGA had been part of that group but was spun off early last year.)</div><div>
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</div><div>But JCN’s tightest ties with any group or individual revolve around Ann and Neil Corkery, which meant that Wellspring’s links to JCN were personal as well as political. Serendipitously Ann Corkery’s husband Neil was JCN’s treasurer, a paid part-time gig. The group’s small board also includes Dan Casey, a veteran GOP operative and “the political and PR brains” of that shop, says one source. Wellspring’s board was made up of Ann Corkery and two people the Corkerys knew from their work with Catholic groups.</div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?smid=tw-share</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year.</div><div>
</div><div>They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices.</div><div>
</div><div>The Times reported previously how individual attorneys general have shut down investigations, changed policies or agreed to more corporate-friendly settlement terms after intervention by lobbyists and lawyers, many of whom are also campaign benefactors.</div><div>
</div><div>But the attorneys general are also working collectively. Democrats for more than a decade have teamed up with environmental groups such as the Sierra Club to use the court system to impose stricter regulation. But never before have attorneys general joined on this scale with corporate interests to challenge Washington and file lawsuits in federal court.</div><div>
</div><div>Out of public view, corporate representatives and attorneys general are coordinating legal strategy and other efforts to fight federal regulations, according to a review of thousands of emails and court documents and dozens of interviews.</div><div>
</div><div>“When you use a public office, pretty shamelessly, to vouch for a private party with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice,” said David B. Frohnmayer, a Republican who served a decade as attorney general in Oregon. “The puppeteer behind the stage is pulling strings, and you can’t see. I don’t like that. And when it is exposed, it makes you feel used.”</div><div>
</div><div>Continue reading the main story</div><div>For Mr. Pruitt, the benefits have been clear. Lobbyists and company officials have been notably solicitous, helping him raise his profile as president for two years of the Republican Attorneys General Association, a post he used to help start what he and allies called the Rule of Law campaign, which was intended to push back against Washington.</div><div>
</div><div>That campaign, in which attorneys general band together to operate like a large national law firm, has been used to back lawsuits and other challenges against the Obama administration on environmental issues, the Affordable Care Act and securities regulation. The most recent target is the president’s executive action on immigration.</div><div>
</div><div>“We are living in the midst of a constitutional crisis,” Mr. Pruitt told energy industry lobbyists and conservative state legislators at a conference in Dallas in July, after being welcomed with a standing ovation. “The trajectory of our nation is at risk and at stake as we respond to what is going on.”...</div><div>
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</div><div>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/07/3600475/investigation-energy-firms-attorneys-general-fighting-federal-government/</div><div>
</div><div>Energy firms and state attorneys general have established a secretive alliance in an effort to derail environmental oversight and promote fossil fuels, according to an in-depth New York Times’ investigation published this weekend. Having reviewed thousands of emails and legal documents and undertaken dozens of interviews, the Times found that “Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda.”</div><div>
</div><div>Using Oklahoma as an example, open-records requests revealed that Attorney General Scott Pruitt delivered a letter to the EPA in 2011 accusing the agency of significantly overestimating the air pollution caused by fracking. Pruitt did not mention that the letter was originally written by representatives of Devon Energy, one of the state’s largest oil and gas companies.</div><div>
</div><div>“The attorney general’s staff had taken Devon’s draft, copied it onto state government stationery with only a few word changes, and sent it to Washington with the attorney general’s signature,” reports the Times.</div><div>
</div><div>Devon Energy is a major supporter of the Republican Attorneys General Association, whose mission is electing Republicans to the Office of Attorney General. The company has donated significantly to the campaigns of climate deniers, giving $800,000 to former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s gubernatorial campaign in 2013. Devon Energy also gave over a million dollars to the lobbying effort in support of the Keystone XL pipeline in 2012. Pruitt is head of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which has collected $16 million this year — nearly four times the amount it collected in 2010.</div><div>
</div><div>According to the Times, at least a dozen states now have attorneys general working with “energy companies and other corporate interests” that are in exchange providing them with unheard of amounts of political funds. This impact of this effort can be seen in this year’s election results, as Republicans will hold 27 state attorney’s general offices starting in January — the first time they’ve had a majority in recent history.</div><div>
</div><div>The Times reports that Devon Energy “readily turned to Mr. Pruitt and his staff for help” as part of a broader national effort bringing together powerful energy interests and attorneys general. The establishment of a new Federalism in Environmental Policy task force by the offices of 19 state attorneys general has bolstered attempts to push back on federal actions to reduce ozone pollution, protect endangered species, regulate fracking, and limit greenhouse gas emissions. The scale of this coordination with corporate interests is unprecedented.</div><div>
</div><div>Pruitt changed 37 words out of 1,016 when repurposing a letter drafted by Devon lawyers for submission to then head of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, about the agency’s methane regulations. The Times published 80-plus pages of notes and documents showing the extent to which Devon and other energy companies have been working with state attorneys general to fight federal actions.</div><div>
</div><div>In responding to questions about his involvement with industry lobbyists, Pruitt said that “it is the content of the request not the source of the request that is relevant.” He went on to say that Devon Energy is an important energy producer and job creator for Oklahoma and that the overreach of the federal government into the regulation of fracking is not only bad for Devon, but also would negatively impact citizens of the state.</div><div>
</div><div>A recent study published in the journal Science found that nearly all of the more than 2,500 small earthquakes that have hit Oklahoma in the past five years can be linked to the process of drilling for oil and gas. Spills related to fracking have also threatenedwater supplies in the state.</div><div>
</div><div>In another recent display of the coordination between energy firms and state-level Republican politicians, this week the American Legislative Executive Council held their annual closed-door meeting in D.C. They pushed a number of anti-clean energy initiatives, including a resolution to abolish the EPA.</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of Alabama</div><div>
</div><div>Luther Strange</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Arizona</div><div>
</div><div>Tom Horne</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Colorado</div><div>
</div><div>John W. Suthers</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of Florida</div><div>
</div><div>Pam Bondi</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Georgia</div><div>
</div><div>Sam Olens</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Idaho</div><div>
</div><div>Lawrence Wasden</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of Indiana</div><div>
</div><div>Greg Zoeller</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Kansas</div><div>
</div><div>Derek Schmidt</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Louisiana</div><div>
</div><div>Buddy Caldwell</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of Michigan</div><div>
</div><div>Bill Schuette</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Montana</div><div>
</div><div>Tim Fox</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Nebraska</div><div>
</div><div>Jon Bruning</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of North Dakota</div><div>
</div><div>Wayne Stenehjem</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Ohio</div><div>
</div><div>Mike DeWine</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Oklahoma</div><div>
</div><div>Scott Pruitt</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of South Carolina</div><div>
</div><div>Alan Wilson</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of South Dakota</div><div>
</div><div>Marty J. Jackley</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Texas</div><div>
</div><div>Greg Abbott</div><div>
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</div><div>Attorney General of Utah</div><div>
</div><div>Sean Reyes</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of West Virginia</div><div>
</div><div>Patrick Morrisey</div><div>
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</div><div> Attorney General of Wisconsin</div><div>
</div><div>J.B. Van Hollen</div><div>
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</div><div>Dark Money and Justice: Michigan is like no other state.</div><div>Dark money erodes trust and confidence in impartial justice. Why does Michigan have so much dark money in elections involving the justice system?</div><div>
</div><div>Unreported, unregulated spending - dark money - isn't new in Michigan's state election campaigns. Beginning with the 2000 Michigan Supreme Court campaign, the Michigan Campaign Finance Network has compiled records from Michigan broadcasters and cable systems of more than $127 million in television spending for candidate-focused advertising in statewide campaigns for state offices that was not reported to the State of Michigan. That total understates total unreported political spending because it does not include spending for radio, direct mail, robo-calls or internet advertising that is either impossible or extremely difficult to compile.</div><div>
</div><div>A record $42.5 million was spent for candidate-focused television advertising that was not reported to the State in 2014, including $35.2 million in the gubernatorial campaign between incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and his Democratic challenger, former congressman Mark Schauer. Only part of that which was unreported to the State was truly dark money, though. The Republican Governors Association and the Democratic Governors Association - both of which file reports of receipts and expenditures with the Internal Revenue Service - were responsible for almost $26 million of the spending in the gubernatorial campaign, and Michael Bloomberg's Independence USA superPAC, which reports financially to the Federal Election Commission, was responsible for $2.7 million. Another $930,000 was spent by the NEA Advocacy Fund and the Michigan Nurses Association, labor organizations that are required to report any contribution over $5,000 to the U.S. Department of Labor.</div><div>
</div><div>The true dark money, whose donors were not publicly reported anywhere, totaled $13.5 million: $5.7 million in the gubernatorial, $4.7 million in the supreme court campaign and $3.1 million in the attorney general campaign. Unlike past years, when both parties and their allied supporters were serious participants, Republicans owned the category in 2014. The Michigan Democratic State Central Committee spent only $470,000 for an ad supporting its attorney general nominee Mark Totten in the Detroit media market. All the rest was in support of Republican candidates.</div><div>
</div><div>Campaign Finance Summary, 2014 Michigan Gubernatorial</div><div>Campaign Finance Summary, 2014 Michigan Supreme Court</div><div>Campaign Finance Summary, 2014 Michigan Attorney General</div><div>
</div><div>Why be concerned about dark money?</div><div>The concern about dark money is based on a premise: Donors who make five, six or seven-figure contributions to political campaigns do not do so for selfless reasons. Donors make those contributions for considerations. When we don't know the identity of donors - whose contributions are multiples of Michigan's annual per capita income - we can't know what considerations are sought, and what considerations are granted. We can't know when ethical, even legal, lines have been crossed. Transparency is inoculation against corruption. Dark money conceals corruption.</div><div>
</div><div>Dark money is particularly troublesome in political campaigns related to the administration of justice. Administration of justice should uphold the ideal that all citizens are equal before the law. If there are questions about unknown donors and unknowable considerations, trust and confidence in equal justice under law is undermined, and the rule of law is undermined.</div><div>
</div><div>The 'gray money' churn and a pardon</div><div>
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</div><div>Substantial amounts of spending on Michigan's 2014 political campaigns were not reported to the Michigan Bureau of Elections, but they were reported elsewhere - at least as part of large national committees that were active in state campaigns across many states. Consider that to be 'gray money,' rather than dark money. As an example of this phenomenon, consider contributions that were reported by a limited liability corporation established by Manoj Bhargava of Farmington Hills, the founder of Living Essentials, the maker of 5-hour ENERGY. In 2013-2014, ETC Capital, an investment vehicle founded by Bhargava, was the top Michigan donor to both the Republican Governors Association (RGA), at $2.8 million, and the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), at $180,000.</div><div>
</div><div>Top Michigan Donors to Republican Governors Association, 2013-2014</div><div>Top Michigan Donors to Republican Attorneys General Association, 2013-2014</div><div>
</div><div>In a profile of Bhargava and his corporations' political spending, the Center for Public Integrity reported notable contributions to the RGA and RAGA and subsequent spending by those organizations. In 2013 ETC Capital gave the RGA $275,000.Eight weeks later the RGA gave the Michigan Republican Party $276,000. In 2014 ETC Capital gave the RGA $2.5 million and the same day the RGA placed a $3.2 million ad buy supporting Rick Snyder. Overall, the RGA spent $10 million in 2014 for ads touting Snyder, or criticizing his opponent.</div><div>
</div><div>Subsequent to ETC Capital's contributions to RAGA, RAGA gave $72,000 to Decider PAC, a Michigan state PAC which, in turn, gave $68,000 - the maximum legal PAC contribution - to Attorney General Bill Schuette's campaign account. The $72,000 contribution Decider PAC received from RAGA was its only income in the 2014 election cycle, yet Decider PAC reported to the Bureau of Elections that the contribution was from the Republican State Leadership Committee. RAGA also gave $70,000 to Maize and Blue PAC, which changed its name to Red and Blue PAC a week later, then gave $67,000 to Schuette's campaign account over the next eight weeks. ETC Capital also gave $125,000 to the Republican State Leadership Committee in October 2013. The RSLC gave $34,000 to Schuette's campaign committee the same day.</div><div>
</div><div>The month after the successful reelection of Gov. Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette, the governor granted a pardon to Alan Gocha, Jr. for a 2007 conviction for driving while impaired, thereby wiping Gocha's record clean of the offense. Gocha had been general counsel for Innovation Ventures, the parent company of Manoj Bhargava's Living Essentials, until he moved to Oakland Law Group, which was spun off from Innovation Ventures as a separate professional limited liability corporation - whose principal client is Innovation Ventures. Gocha had exhausted his legal appeals for the conviction, and his 2012 application to the State parole board for a pardon was put on the "back burner," according to Russ Marlan, deputy director of the Michigan Department of Corrections. Gocha's 2014 pardon was one of only 11 granted by Snyder so far in his term as governor.</div><div>
</div><div>CPI's profile of Bhargava and his political spending, which was released the day before Associated Press reporter David Eggert broke the story detailing Gov. Snyder's pardon of Gocha, featured a notable quote about Bhargava by former Michigan Republican Party chairman Ron Weiser: "What was strange is he never asked for anything back. Usually people want something."</div><div>
</div><div>It would require extreme credulity to make such a statement after looking at the larger picture of the 2014 election cycle and the pardon of Alan Gocha. ETC Capital's contributions to the RGA, RAGA and RSLC were substantial, and those committees' spending in support of the governor and attorney general, in turn, was substantial. It is difficult to imagine a credible claim that the governor and the attorney general were unaware of the RGA, RAGA and RSLC's support of their campaigns, and ETC Capital's substantial support of those national committees.</div><div>
</div><div>The spending by ETC Capital was byzantine, but it can be tracked through public records. What should be of even greater concern is the fact that absolutely undisclosed donors used Republican Party vehicles to spend four times as much as ETC Capital contributed on the record. The public has no idea who those donors were, or what considerations they sought, or what considerations were, or will be, granted.</div><div>
</div><div>2014 Supreme Court campaign: A new chapter in a checkered history</div><div>Michigan's Supreme Court campaigns have earned a reputation as some of the most expensive and caustic judicial campaigns in the nation. In the series, The New Politics of Judicial Elections, published by the Brennan Center for Justice, Justice at Stake and the National Institute for Money in State Politics, Michigan's Supreme Court campaigns in 2010 and 2012 are identified as the most expensive in the nation. The 2014 report will show that streak extended to a third consecutive election cycle.</div><div>
</div><div>Two things were different about the 2014 campaign: There were no attack ads, and, unlike the last the last three elections, only the Republican nominees for the court were supported by dark money television advertising.</div><div>
</div><div>Unreported Television Spending by Party/Allies, Michigan Supreme Court Campaigns, 2000-2014</div><div>
</div><div>Detroit News editorialist Nolan Finley wrote 10 weeks before the election about a detente between the political parties and their supporters: "After a string of bitterly contested and hugely expensive court campaigns, Republicans and Democrats have called a truce this go round. The two parties have forged a deal to assure their favored candidates make it through the election unscathed."</div><div>
</div><div>Finley wrote that Republicans wanted to assure election of incumbent Justices Brian Zahra and David Viviano, and Democrats wanted a sure win for Richard Bernstein. Viviano was paired against circuit court Judge Deborah Thomas for a two-year term to complete the term to which Viviano had been appointed after the resignation of former Justice Diane Hathaway. Zahra and circuit court Judge James Robert Redford were paired against Bernstein and Court of Appeals Judge William Murphy for two eight-year terms.</div><div>
</div><div>The election results followed the script that Finley described: Bernstein, Viviano and Zahra were elected by comfortable margins. The campaign finance profiles for the candidates were extremely different.</div><div>
</div><div>Richard Bernstein's campaign was largely self-funded with the candidate providing more than $1.85 million out of his campaign total of $2,263,000. Justices Zahra and Viviano each raised more than $900,000, largely through 23 joint fundraising events. Among the unsuccessful candidates, Redford raised $426,000, Murphy raised $390,000 and Thomas raised $78,500.</div><div>
</div><div>Independent spending was divergent along party lines. Independent spenders reported expenditures totaling $716,000 in support of the Republican nominees, while just $8,500 was reported in support of the Democratic nominees. More significantly, the Michigan Republican Party spent $4.2 million and the Center for Individual Freedom spent $468,000 for unreported dark money television advertisements supporting the Republican nominees. There was no dark money television spending in support of the Democratic nominees. Even though there was an apparent detente, anonymous donors couldn't resist getting involved on the Republican side.</div><div>
</div><div>The dark money spending in Michigan Supreme Court campaigns has been a recurring presence since the 2000 election. In the campaigns to fill 18 seats from 2000 through 2014, over half of all verifiable spending was for unreported television advertising, the records of which MCFN compiled from the public files of television broadcasters and cable systems. Of the $70.96 million total, candidate committees accounted for $23.9 million (33.7%), reported independent expenditures were $7.7 million (10.8%) and unreported television advertisements were $39.4 million (55.4%). Unreported radio and direct mail spending would certainly add millions to the dark money total.</div><div>
</div><div>Michigan Supreme Court Campaign Finance Summary, 1984-2014, Table</div><div>Michigan Supreme Court Campaign Finance Summary, 1984-2014, Graphical</div><div>Access to Michigan Supreme Court campaign finance summaries by election cycle; with representative unreported ads.</div><div>
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</div><div>The undisclosed spending is a direct threat to impartial justice. From a practical standpoint, no one has a greater incentive to spend millions of dollars to elect a Supreme Court justice than an interest group or individual with a high stakes case in the appeals pipeline. While those interest groups or individuals have a First Amendment right to spend their millions to help elect a judge, they don't necessarily have a right to have their chosen judge decide a case in which they are a party. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Caperton v. Massey Coal Company (2009) that a judge participating in a case involving his or her major campaign finance supporter violates the opposing litigant's due process right to an impartial court hearing. In such a case, the judge must recuse him or herself from the case.</div><div>
</div><div>The millions of dollars of dark money television spending represent the potential for numerous Caperton-type problems. In the 2012 Michigan Supreme Court campaign, which was the nadir for campaign accountability, candidate committees and reported independent expenditures totaled $5 million. Unreported dark money television spending totaled $14 million. With nearly three-fourths of all spending off-the-books, the threat to due process is great and persistent.</div><div>
</div><div>The bogus premise of issue advocacy</div><div>The basis for allowing tens of millions of dollars-worth of candidate-focused advertising to pass without disclosure is the fanciful notion that the advertisements are issue advocacy. In Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc(2007), the case that rolled back the McCain-Feingold prohibition against corporate spending for issue advocacy in the weeks immediately before a federal election, Chief Justice John Roberts distinguished authentic issue advocacy from the functional equivalent of express advocacy:</div><div>
</div><div>"First, their content is consistent with that of a genuine issue ad: The ads focus on a legislative issue, take a position on the issue, exhort the public to adopt that position, and urge the public to contact public officials with respect to the matter. Second, their content lacks indicia of express advocacy: The ads do mention an election, candidacy, political party or challenger; and they do not take a position on a candidate's character, qualifications or fitness for office."</div><div>Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. 551 U.S. 449 (2007) at 470.</div><div>
</div><div>James Bopp, counsel for Wisconsin Right to Life in FEC v WRTL, said in his brief for the case that issue advocacy is grassroots lobbying.</div><div>
</div><div>The very idea of issue advocacy in a judicial campaign fails completely. At least in Michigan, judges are not lobbyable officials. Advocacy with the judge occurs in the courtroom, not over the airwaves.</div><div>
</div><div>The most frequently played ad from the 2014 campaign talked about judging judges, but not voting for the Republican Party's slate of judges. The ad - sponsored by the Michigan Republican Party and starring the candidates - passes as a non-campaign expenditure, because it does not have the words "vote" or "elect" in its message about judging who are Michigan's best judges</div><div>
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</div><div>Democrat Andy Beshear and Republican Whitney Westerfield are the men publicly running to be Kentucky's next attorney general. But behind the scenes, scores of corporations, wealthy businessmen, lawyers, lobbyists and labor unions have given several million dollars to two independent groups loosely affiliated with the Democratic and Republican parties, which are spending that money on a barrage of attack ads meant to influence voters.</div><div>
</div><div>Many donors hedge their bets, not knowing who will win. Among those giving heavily to independent groups on both sides of the attorney general's race — simultaneously underwriting attacks on Beshear and Westerfield — are 21st Century Fox, the American Gaming Association, Golden Living nursing homes, Duke Energy, distiller Brown-Forman, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the American Petroleum Institute, eBay, the American Beverage Association, discount cigarette maker XCaliber International, brewer Anheuser Busch and Monster Energy caffeine drinks.</div><div>
</div><div>The deep-pocketed donors, mostly from outside Kentucky, have an interest in not getting sued or prosecuted by attorneys general representing the 50 states. This fall, they can focus their efforts on the three states choosing a top lawyer in this off-year election: Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi.</div><div>
</div><div>Golden Living, for instance, based in Plano, Texas, gave $25,000 each this year to both of the independent groups involved in Kentucky's attorney general's race. The company is no stranger to statehouse legal problems. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is targeting its nursing homes in her state for allegedly failing to provide basic services to elderly residents, a charge the company denies. In 2013, the company agreed to pay $613,300 to settle claims of "inadequate and worthless wound care services to residents" brought by the state of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Justice.</div><div>
</div><div>"Golden Living fraudulently billed Medicaid for nursing services which were substandard and, tragically, resulted in harm to patients," Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said at that time.</div><div>
</div><div>Money flows from these contributors to two national groups, neither of which is allowed by law to coordinate with its favored candidate.</div><div>
</div><div>The Republican Attorneys General Association is running ads that say Beshear would do the bidding of his "special-interest" campaign donors and Democratic President Barack Obama, who is hugely unpopular in Kentucky. The Bluegrass Alliance for Consumer Rights — largely funded by the Democratic Attorneys General Association — is airing a commercial that shows a man in a bathrobe, supposedly Westerfield, enjoying a pedicure and a facial at a spa instead of doing his duty prosecuting criminals.</div><div>
</div><div>Beshear and Westerfield have complained about the accuracy of attacks made by the independent groups, while each insists he has no control over the independent group assailing his opponent.</div><div>
</div><div>The Democratic group said it bought $630,000 of television air time on Oct. 5. The Republican group reported spending $2.2 million in Kentucky as of Oct. 2. More money could come in the campaign's final weeks.</div><div>
</div><div>Most of the donors give $10,000 to $50,000 per contribution, with some giving multiple times. In exchange, donors get to meet the state attorneys general and their top legal aides at private conferences organized by the independent groups throughout the year.</div><div>
</div><div>Last June, for example, the Republican Attorneys General Association hosted its summer meeting at a luxury oceanfront resort in San Diego, according to conference documents available online. Eighteen attorneys general and seven candidates for attorney general spent the weekend golfing, dining, holding campaign fund-raisers and attending business-friendly panel discussions. They were joined by hundreds of executives from banks, payday lenders, tobacco companies, health insurers and technology firms, among many others who paid the RAGA for the access.</div><div>
</div><div>For $10,000, "gold sponsor" donors were promised admission to "the private appreciation dinner" with attorneys general at last year's three national RAGA meetings. For $50,000, donors got that same deal, plus admission to even more intimate "host committee dinners" at national meetings, and an "annual opportunity to lead private briefings with Republican attorneys general."</div><div>
</div><div>The two attorneys general groups did not return calls last week seeking comment on their Kentucky efforts.</div><div>
</div><div>Several U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 2010 allow donors, including corporations and unions, to make unlimited payments to such independent groups. Much of this can be passed along anonymously as "dark money" by organizations that can conceal who funds them. For instance, the conservative group Judicial Crisis Network gave $100,000 on June 1 to the RAGA; because of the way it's organized, it does not have to explain its funding.</div><div>
</div><div>"We're seeing these outside groups getting involved more and more in state races, even in down-ticket state races and state legislative races," said Jordan Libowitz of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.</div><div>
</div><div>"It's particularly bad with an attorney general's race, because then you've got these conflict-of-interest concerns given the very nature of what an attorney general does," Libowitz said. "He's supposed to be the attorney for the people. But these same corporations who get to do back-door lobbying with the attorney general with big campaign donations often have business before the attorney general's office."</div><div>
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</div><div>Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article42644670.html#storylink=cpy</div><div></div><div>==</div><div>---</div><div>An examination of industry donations to the Republican Attorneys General who have joined the lawsuit</div><div>against the Clean Power Plan. Republican Attorneys General who were appointed or do not have</div><div>campaign contribution records are excluded.</div><div>1. Alabama – Luther Strange</div><div>$314,788</div><div>2. Arizona - Mark Brnovich</div><div>$11,000</div><div>3. Arkansas – Leslie Rutledge</div><div>$32,875</div><div>4. Colorado – Cynthia Coffman</div><div>$22,828</div><div>5. Florida – Pam Bondi</div><div>$26,350</div><div>6. Georgia – Sam Olens</div><div>$43,925</div><div>7. Indiana – Greg Zoeller</div><div>$28,200</div><div>8. Kansas – Derek Schmidt</div><div>$129,737</div><div>9. Louisiana – Buddy Caldwell</div><div>$98,642</div><div>10. Michigan – Bill Schuette</div><div>$172,241</div><div>11. Montana – Tim Fox</div><div>$35,241</div><div>12. Nebraska – Doug Peterson</div><div>$4,053</div><div>13. North Dakota - Wayne Stenehjem</div><div>$87,801</div><div>14. Nevada – Adam Paul Laxalt</div><div>$27,300</div><div>15. Ohio – Mike DeWine</div><div>$335,763</div><div>16. Oklahoma - Scott Pruitt</div><div>$305,996</div><div>17. South Carolina – Alan Wilson</div><div>$39,050</div><div>18. South Dakota – Marty Jackley</div><div>$10,826</div><div>19. Texas – Ken Paxton</div><div>$1,067,817</div><div>20. Utah – Sean Reyes</div><div>$2,800</div><div>21. West Virginia – Patrick Morrissey</div><div>$53,500</div><div>22. Wisconsin – Brad Schimel</div><div>$20,475</div><div>FOIA Requests Reveal Behind The Scenes Coordinati</div><div>--</div><div>
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</div><div>Date Donor Amount</div><div>1/15/2014 American Gas Association $350</div><div>1/30/2014 America's Natural Gas Alliance $700</div><div>2/19/2014 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>3/5/2014 American Gas Association $15,000</div><div>3/18/2014 Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services Company $15,000</div><div>3/27/2014 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>3/31/2014 Continental Resources, Inc.' $25,000</div><div>3/31/2014 Devon Energy Production Company $125,000</div><div>3/31/2014 DuPont $35,000</div><div>3/31/2014 Koch Industries, Inc $125,000</div><div>4/15/2014 General Electric PAC $15,000</div><div>4/24/2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $370</div><div>4/29/2014 Alpha Natural Resources Services, LLC $350</div><div>5/8/2014 American Natural Gas Alliance $50,000</div><div>5/13/2014 Peabody Energy $315</div><div>5/14/2014 Exxon Mobil Corporation $60,000</div><div>5/16/2014 Koch Companies Public Sector $4,900</div><div>5/30/2014 Continental Resources $685</div><div>6/12/2014 NextEra Energy $315</div><div>6/12/2014 NextEra Energy $315</div><div>6/23/2014 Marathon Oil Corporation $5,000</div><div>6/25/2014 Consumers Energy Company $10,000</div><div>6/30/2014 Chevron Policy Govt and Publ Affairs $15,000</div><div>6/30/2014 Dominion $15,000</div><div>8/27/2014 Whiting Oil and Gas Corp $25,000</div><div>9/5/2014 Denbury Resources $15,000</div><div>9/5/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $50,000</div><div>9/11/2014 American Natural Gas Alliance (in kind) $3,395</div><div>9/26/2014 Alpha Natural Resources Services LLC $5,000</div><div>10/2/2014 Consol Energy Inc $10,000</div><div>10/6/2014 America's Natural Gas Alliance $415</div><div>10/7/2014 Clean Energy $20,000</div><div>10/12/2014 Koch Industries Inc. $415</div><div>10/13/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $415</div><div>10/31/2014 Alliant Energy Corp $10,000</div><div>11/6/2014 AmeriGas Propane, Inc. $25,000</div><div>11/12/2014 NextEra Energy Resources $415</div><div>1/8/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $350</div><div>1/14/2015 American Gas Association $16,500</div><div>1/29/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $50,000</div><div>1/30/2015 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers $350</div><div>2/2/2015 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>2/3/2015 Koch Industries $125,000</div><div>2/11/2015 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>2/24/2015 Duke Energy $15,000</div><div>3/4/2015 Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services Company $25,000</div><div>4/28/2015 Whiting Oil and Gas Corp $25,000</div><div>5/4/2015 Exxon Mobil Corporation $50,000</div><div>5/26/2015 Consumers Energy Company $15,000</div><div>5/28/2015 General Electric Company $50,000</div><div>6/2/2015 American Natural Gas Assiance Inc $50,000</div><div>6/26/2015 Koch Companies Public Sector $400</div><div>10/9/2015 American Natural Gas Alliance Inc 350</div><div>9/16/2015 Tri-State Generation And Transmission 350</div><div>10/23/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 610</div><div>7/3/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 400</div><div>12/17/2015 Chevron Policy Government And Public Affairs 25000</div><div>10/20/2015 American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufactuers 200</div><div>10/26/2015</div><div>Tri-State Generation And Transmission</div><div>Association 40000</div><div>11/9/2015 Amerigas Propane, LP 25000</div><div>9/15/2015</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>Company 610</div><div>7/15/2015 American Natural Gas Alliance Inc 400</div><div>9/24/2015 Alliant Energy Corporation Services Inc 350</div><div>12/31/2015 Alliant Energy Corporation Services Inc 15000</div><div>7/15/2015 Wv Oil And Natural Gas Association Inc. 5000</div><div>12/31/2015 Encana Oil And Gas Usa Inc 20000</div><div>9/30/2015 Nextera Energy Resources LLC 50000</div><div>11/19/2015 Koch Industries, Inc. 100000</div><div>2/18/2016 Centerpoint Energy $25,000</div><div>2/17/2016 American Petroleum Institute $50,000</div><div>3/8/2016 General Electric Company $50,000</div><div>3/2/2016</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>Company $25,000</div><div>2/3/2016 American Gas Association $350</div><div>2/19/2016 Securing Americas Future Energy Foundation $350</div><div>1/12/2016</div><div>Energy Future Holdings Corporate Services</div><div>Company $350</div><div>3/16/2016 Koch Industries, Inc. $125,000</div><div>2/9/2016 American Fuel And Petrochemical Manufactuers $60,000</div><div>2/24/2016 American Gas Association $15,000</div><div>1/8/2016 Nv Energy $25,000</div><div>TOTAL: $1,915,275</div><div>AG INDIVIDUAL SUM: $2,871,208</div><div>An examination of industry donations to the Republican Attorneys General who have joined the lawsuit</div><div>against the Clean Power Plan. Republican Attorneys General who were app</div>