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</font></div><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Center for Environmental Science Accuracy and Reliability (CESAR)</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">: Bernhardt was a board member and volunteer for this Dixon, Calif.-based group, whose chairman, Jean Sagouspe, is a California almond farmer who has argued against water regulations and endangered species protections. The group has been active in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">numerous challenges to the Endangered Species Act. I</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n 2012, CESAR filed a lawsuit demanding that the American eel be protected as a threatened species. However, conservation groups argued that CESAR’s true motive was to provoke lawmakers into rewriting federal endangered species law. “They had this weird strategy of attempting to use environmental laws to destroy the environment,” Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity told E&E News. Suckling said he considers<b> CESAR a “front group” for the powerful Westlands Water District, </b>another former Bernhardt client.</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766823-Bernhardt-David-L.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> public financial disclosure reports</a>, Bernhardt listed himself as a former board member and volunteer to the <a href="http://polluterwatch.org/center-environmental-science-accuracy-reliability-cesar" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Environmental Science Accuracy and Reliability (<span class="caps">CESAR</span>)</a>. According to Greenpeace's PolluterWatch project, <span class="caps">CESAR</span> produced regular reports outlining regional threats to different species in order to support and file lawsuits against the Endangered Species Act. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pacific_Legal_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pacific Legal Foundation </a>filed a<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121222064749/http://www.pacificlegal.org/document.doc?id=651" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> petition on behalf of <span class="caps">CESAR</span> </a>to delist a population of killer whales. <span class="caps">CESAR</span>'s other targets have included the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181219025342/http://www.bestscience.org/hookless-cactus.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> hookless cactus</a> and the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170116062041/http://www.bestscience.org/sage-grouse.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> sage grouse</a>. <b>The group's<a href="https://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/petition-seeks-delisting-of-pacific-northwest-orcas/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> consultants have included</a> Julie MacDonald, a former Interior Department deputy assistant secretary who was found by the department’s inspector general to have meddled in scientific decisions on endangered species listings during the George W. Bush administration. </b><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2866551-DonorsTrust-2014.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">In 2014</a>, <span class="caps">CESAR</span> received a $10,000 donation from the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“dark money” group DonorsTrust.</a> It received <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3224937-Charles-G-Koch-Charitable-Foundation-2015.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$25,000 from the Charles Koch Foundation in 2015</a>.<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [14],</a> <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s16" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Center of Environmental Science, Accuracy & Reliability also known as CESAR is a non-profit 501(c)(3) </b>corporation that self-describes their purpose as to “use of data and the scientific method to ensure consistent application of environmental statutes throughout all industries and all sectors”. CESAR is also known as "Best Science," and maintains BestScience.org.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above" style=""><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CESAR functions both to publish ‘reports’ describing the regional threats on a <a href="http://www.bestscience.org/projects.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">range of species<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> as well as making arguments over the scientific description of species as subspecies vs. same species. They then use those reports and other outside documents to file lawsuits using the Endangered Species Act.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Initially established in 2008 as the Council for Endangered Species Act Reliability, CESAR rebranded in 201 as the Center for Environmental Science Accuracy and Reliability, keeping the same acronym.</b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All of the CESAR fundings come from contributions, gifts, grants, and donations. Their yearly revenue varies drastically from year to year. In <a href="http://nccsweb.urban.org/communityplatform/nccs/organization/profile/id/411647799/%20%C2%A0" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">2009<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>, CESAR received $201,352 in revenue but a year later that dropped significantly to only $25,025. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Officers (none of which are compensate):</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig Manson - Executive Director</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><a href="http://www.bestscience.org/about-us.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Science Advisors<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>:</span> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://polluterwatch.org/dr-rob-roy-ramey-ii" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Rob Roy Ramey II</a>, PhD</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert M. Zink, PhD</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In addition, the acting director of the U.S. Department of the Interior, <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.org/david-bernhardt" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">David Bernhardt</a>, was a director of CESAR from <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3861664-David-Bernhardt-Financial-Disclosure-2014.html#document/p2/a357002" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">June, 2012<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> until <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862923-Bernhardt-Rescusal-Letter.html#document/p1/a357441" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">May, 2017<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>. When Bernhardt was nominated for the deputy secretary position at DOI in 2017, he left his position at the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy & Reliability.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-evidence field-type-text-long field-label-above" style=""><div class="field-label" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold; border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0.5em; margin: 1em 0px; width: 640px; float: none; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EVIDENCE: </font></div><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" style=""><p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Arguments are <a href="https://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/petition-seeks-delisting-of-pacific-northwest-orcas/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">"completely out of touch with current science"<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a></font></span></p><p class="rtecenter" style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">- Center for Biological Diversity </font></span></p><p class="rtecenter" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil and Gas Funding</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In <a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/basic-search/?q=center+for+environmental+science+accuracy+and+reliability&sf%5B%5D=candidate&sf%5B%5D=donor&sf%5B%5D=recipient&sf%5B%5D=transaction&sf%5B%5D=finances" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">2014<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>, CESAR received $10,000 donation from DonorsTrust.</b> Since it’s founding its founding in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">1991<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>, DonorsTrust has donated $400 million to more than 1,000 conservative and libertarian groups. Together with its sister group, Donors Capital Fund, they distributed nearly $120 million to 102 think tanks and action groups <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">skeptical of the science behind climate change<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> between 2002 and 2010.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In </span><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/ckf_2015_990.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">2015<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the Charles Koch Foundation [</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">bernhadt used to work there mojo]</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> donated $25,000 to CESAR.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The foundation is run by Charles Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries, a multibillion dollar corporation heavily involved in oil refinement and benzene production.</span></font></p><p class="rtecenter" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil and Gas Motivated Legislation</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hookless Cactus</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In <a href="http://www.bestscience.org/uploads/4/3/7/3/43733283/hookless_cactus-cesar_report-downsized.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">2012<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>, CESAR published a report that argued that (1) the three subspecies of Hookless Cactus don’t exist and there is only one species</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, (2) the species is not in great threat (when considered one species) and therefore don’t require the current conservation efforts, and (3) the oil and gas industry’s fracking does not pose a threat to the Hookless Cactus. This goes directly against previous findings on the scientific warrant for subspecies classifications. They counter this point by (1) making counter claims and (2) arguing that because the scientists/professors who came to this conclusion either published on the topic or were general plant experts, they were either too biased or unqualified to make this opinion. It’s worth noting that the only scientist on the CESAR report was CESAR employee Dr. Rob Ramey, who has far less plant scientific background than any of the three critiqued scientists, never mind the difference in plant taxonomy experience. Still, he offered his own opinion on this matter and critiqued the decision of the three botanists that have long standing consultant agreements with the Department of the Interior.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, the Fish and Wildlife Service determined that areas with Hookless Cactus populations had to have 400 and 1000-foot setback areas around individuals. This poses a problem for oil and gas companies, because there is a large overlap between the Hookless Cactus range and fracking sites.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><a href="http://polluterwatch.org/WESTERN-ENERGY-Alliance" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Western Energy Alliance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a group of aligned oil and gas companies, held the Utah Basin Advisory Network Meeting in response to the Hookless Cactus setback rule. In the meeting, </span><a href="http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/370522/wea-accomplishments.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">a Western Energy Alliance official stated<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, “On behalf of CESAR (the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy, & Reliability), Dr. Rob Ramey has initiated a review of the various studies and materials that support the listing decision and FWS’ management policies. We hope that his findings will be useful as we continue to advocate against needlessly restrictive setbacks.”</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interact <a href="http://%20https//ecos.fws.gov/ecp0/profile/speciesProfile?spcode=Q21I" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">here<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> with the current range of Hookless Cactus. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sage Grouse</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">CESAR has a long history of attempting to <a href="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/04/028274" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">delist the Sage Grouse<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from the Endangered Species Act. Their efforts range from producing papers disputing oil and gas development’s harms on Sage Grouse to issuing </span><a href="http://http//www.bestscience.org/sage-grouse-reference-materials.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">reports<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that criticized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s The Sage Grouse Conservation Objectives Team Report (COT Report) as not “a scientific document” and “overstates some threats”. The same CESAR report has been slightly rewritten and put on the website of the Western Energy Alliance, an alliance of oil and gas companies.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> In addition, the <a href="http://polluterwatch.org/WESTERN-ENERGY-Alliance" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Western Energy Alliance</a> sources their conclusions to <a href="https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/sites/default/files/COT%20Challenge%20Exhibit%20A.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">reports<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> publised by Dr. Ramey in order to petition the Department of the Interior on Sage Grouse impact statements and land use plans. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><u>CESAR's Direct ties to Oil and Gas Industry in regards to the Sage Grouse</u> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Head CESAR scientist Dr. Rob Ramey was paid $200hr to “<a href="http://elkocounty.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=508&meta_id=26602" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">analyze review and critique influential studies and reports on GRSG [greater sage grouse]<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>” by <a href="http://polluterwatch.org/WESTERN-ENERGY-Alliance" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Western Energy Alliance</a>, American Exploration Mining Association, Colorado Mining Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, The International Association of Drilling Contractors, Montana Association of Oil Gas & Coal Counties, Montana Petroleum Association, the Nevada Mining Association and the Petroleum Association of Wyoming</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><u><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why the Sage Grouse Matters to the Oil and Gas Industry</font></u></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On <a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060055707" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">June 7, 2017<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>, Secretary of the Department of the Interior announced an official review on the 2015 Federal Sage Grouse Plan, which outlines the areas of protection the Sage Grouse is afforded. This excited the oil and gas industry because of the large overlap in the land leased to oil and gas companies and the nesting areas for greater Sage Grouse.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img alt="" src="https://polluterwatch.org/sites/default/files/u5284/85.jpeg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: 256px; width: 340px;" /></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/11/14/the-9-million-and-counting-chicken-fight-over-the-sage-grouse" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Map <span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>of the Sage Grouse habitat and current Oil and Gas Leases in southwestern Colorado. This is far from the only area with this type of overlap - with 10 other states containing Sage Grouse protected habitat.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of November 2014, there was <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/11/14/the-9-million-and-counting-chicken-fight-over-the-sage-grouse" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">$9 million<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> spent lobbying the 2015 Sage Grouse plan. This number does not included private efforts, such as the Western Energy Alliance’s <a href="http://elkocounty.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=508&meta_id=26602" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">peitition<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> of the Department of the Interior with $275,000 budget in 2014 to challenge the 2015 sage grouse plan.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a <a href="https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/sites/default/files/Sage%20Grouse%20Economic%20Report%20-%20Final%20from%20Minuteman%20Press.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">large financial stake<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> in this for oil and gas companies to delist the Sage Grouse. When fighting the 2015 Sage Grouse plan, which ultimately passed, Western Energy Alliance claimed that the most conservative plan would have caused a reduction of $307 million in annual economic revenue, their mid-plan would cost $839 million in annual economic revenue and most restrictive plan would cost $5.6 billion in annual economic revenue.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservationists are concerned for the Sage Grouse. <a href="https://wilderness.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Oil-and-Gas-Threaten-Sage-Grouse.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Scientific studies<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> concluded that 44% of the most important habitat for Sage Grouse is at risk of energy development, with 9.1 million acres of sagebrush and 2.7 million acres of grassland within the sage-grouse range to be lost to oil and gas drilling in the coming years. </font></p><p class="rtecenter" dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Water Motivated Legislation</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hetch-Hetchy</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, CESAR sued multiple employees of the Department of the Interior, claiming they failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act, with regards to salmon, sturgeon and smelt in the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, with respect to the Hetch-Hetchy Project. The Hetch-Hetchy Project diverts water from the Tuolumne River dam to a pipeline that sends water to San Francisco, which provides 85% of the city’s water. The lawsuit was filed because federal orders for “severe cutbacks” in the amount of water provided to the Central Valley to protect the fish habitat, but was not enforced with the Hetch-Hetchy Project.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/20/lawsuit-asks-san-francisco-to-share-pain-on-green-/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">told<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> the Washington Times, “the goal is not to provide more water for fish, the goal is to provide more water for Westlands”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Westlands Water District is a water company that operates and competes in the same region as the Hetch-Hetchy project. David Bernhardt, a director of CESAR, led the lobbying effort for<b> Westlands Water District at </b><a href="http://www.polluterwatch.org/brownstein-hyatt-farber-schreck-llc" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck </b>LLC</a> between 2011 and 2016. Most significantly, the Executive Director of CESAR serves as the general council for Westlands Water District. This is one such example of CESAR using the Endangered Species Act to pervert conservation legislation for a company’s profit.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Orca</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In August 2012, Pacific Legal Foundation submitted a <a href="http://%20http//www.bestscience.org/uploads/4/3/7/3/43733283/orca-petitiondelist.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">petition<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> on behalf of CESAR and two California large farms, the 2,200 acre Empresas Del Bosque and the 4,000 acre Coburn Ranch, to <b>delist the killer whale under the ESA.</b> The following year, the petition was <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/02/science/la-sci-sn-killer-whales-endangered-species-20130802" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">rejected <span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background-image: url(" background-position="background-position" initial="initial" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>by the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The motivation of the petition was to remove the protection granted to the Southern Pacific population of the killer whales for the explicit purpose of increasing the water supply to the two fruit farms. Both of which to some extent specialize in almond production, which is notoriously a water intensive product. The petition was explicit in its connection between the farms inability to expand it production and acres due to a lack of water and the Endangered Species Act’s designation and protection of the killer whale.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The petitions arguments were multifold, but can be broadly summarized as an attempt to delist the south pacific killer whale because they argue it is was not scientifically considered to be a subspecies of the killer whale and even if it was the Endangered Species Act does not allow Distinct Population Segments to be protected for subspecies only species.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This case isn’t really about killer whales, but their <a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/noaa-puget-sound-killer-whales-to-stay-protected/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">food supply<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>. Three pods of south pacific killer whales summer in Puget Sound, located in Washington state. In order to feed them, the salmon that are born and naturally swim up to that region need to be protected. These salmon are spawning right middle in the region of specifically sited, in the CESAR petition, water companies; Westlands Water District, Chowchilla Water District, and San Luis Water District.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the <a href="http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Resources/Chinook/" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">California Department of Fish and Wildlife,<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> there are 4 distinct populations of Chinook salmon spawn in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system, in which these water companies operate. This <a href="http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2013/01/1_22_13killer_whale_chinook.html" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">species<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> of salmon, is a particular favorite and staple of the Puget Sound Killer Whales.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Executive Director of CESAR serves as the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/20/lawsuit-asks-san-francisco-to-share-pain-on-green-/%20%C2%A0" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">general council<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> for Westlands Water District. <a href="http://www.polluterwatch.org/david-bernhardt" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">David Bernhardt</a>, the director of CESAR, led the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmlbs.php?id=D000000724&year=2016%20%C2%A0" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbying <span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>effort for Westlands Water District at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLC (see polluter watch profile for lawfirm) between 2011 and 2016. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CESAR’s role in the petition, as the lead petitioner, was to bring the <a href="http://www.bestscience.org/uploads/4/3/7/3/43733283/orca-petitiondelist.pdf%20%C2%A0" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">perception of scientific integrity<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a> and objectivity to the petition. The motivation of CESAR is described as “CESAR believes that these activities [delisting the killer whale] will generate additional support for environmental statutes, because the results of and bases for regulatory actions will be transparent and supported by science”. </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(See <a href="http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/criticalhabitat/killerwhale_sr.pdf" class="ext" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">map <span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></a>of Puget Sound, the location where the killer whale summer.)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-links-resources field-type-link-field field-label-above" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; 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text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DeSmog: David Bernhardt<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2012/08/02/new-threat-to-southern-resident-orcas-farmers-sue-to-remove-endangered-status/" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Seattle PI, 2012: New Threat to Southern Resident Orcas – Farmers Sue to Remove Endangered Status<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aop8AT7XySY" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Newsmax TV, 2014: America's Forum | Craig Manson executive director for the Center for Environmental Science<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.capitalpress.com/hetch-hetchy-lawsuit-tests-environmental-tactics/article_9890dc73-667f-5dda-88ac-1ce880a608ab.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Capital Press, 2014: Hetch Hetchy lawsuit tests environmental tactics<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.capitalpress.com/state/california/groups-shun-lawsuit-despite-own-hetch-hetchy-concerns/article_8e25d6e4-e100-5072-b05d-9a66ac3f6117.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Capital Press, 2014: Groups shun lawsuit despite own Hetch Hetchy concerns<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article2608813.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Sacramento Bee op-ed by Craig Manson, 2014: Hetch Hetchy lawsuit a reminder on species law<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/socal-farmers-wantkangaroo-rat-delisted/" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Courthouse News Service, 2015: SoCal Farmers Want Kangaroo Rat Delisted<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151007/business/310079910" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">AP, 2015: Feds: Eels prized by fishermen aren't a threatened species<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/water-and-drought/article19669410.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fresno Bee, 2015: San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite faces new legal challenge<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://fox40.com/2015/02/11/group-sues-sanitation-district-over-releasing-ammonia-into-delta/" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">FOX40 Sacramento, 2015: Group Sues Sanitation District over Releasing Ammonia into Delta<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.kcet.org/redefine/this-tiny-bird-scored-a-win-for-science" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">KCET: This Tiny Bird Scored a Win for Science, 2016<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.thefencepost.com/news/property-rights-ag-groups-others-petition-to-delist-prebles-mouse/" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Fence Post, 2017: Property rights, ag groups, others petition to delist Preble’s mouse<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-man-behind-the-curtain-interiors-no-2-helps-drive-trumps-agenda/2018/11/18/6403eb4c-e9ff-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Washington Post, 2018: Zinke’s #2 has so many potential conflicts of interest he has to carry a list of them all<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trump-bernhardt-20170517-story.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Los Angeles Times, 2017: Trump's pick for a top Interior post has sued the agency on behalf of powerful California water interes<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3862923-Bernhardt-Rescusal-Letter.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David Bernhardt Recusal Letter to DOI Ethics Office, 2017<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Bernhardt-Memo.public.pdf" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Greenpeace USA, 2017: David Bernhardt memo<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3861664-David-Bernhardt-Financial-Disclosure-2014.html#document/p2/a357002" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">David Bernhardt Public Financial Disclosure Report, 2017<span class="ext" aria-label="(link is external)" style="background: url(" extlink_s.png="extlink_s.png" px="px" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" width="width" height="height" padding-right="padding-right" /></font></a></div><div class="field-item odd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/habitat-for-sale-an-oil-and-gas-group-calls-the-tune-at-the-interior-department-215244528.html" target="blank" class="ext" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Yahoo News, 2019: Habitat for sale: An oil and gas group calls the tune at the Interior Departmen</a>t</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">United States Department of the Interior (<span class="caps" style="">DOI</span>) </span>— <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-bernhardt-b9400711/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Deputy Secretary</a> (Since August 2017). Solicitor (2006 – 2009), Deputy Solicitor (2005 – 2006), Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior (2004 – 2005), Counselor to the Secretary and Director of Congressional and Legislative Affairs (2001 – 2004), Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior (March – April 2001). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://polluterwatch.org/center-environmental-science-accuracy-reliability-cesar" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Center for Environmental Science Accuracy and Reliability (<span class="caps" style="">CESAR</span>) </span></a>— <a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/05/11/document_gw_10.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Board member and volunteer</a>, resigned subsequent to his 2017 disclosure report submission. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Bernhardt Brothers Land and Cattle <span class="caps" style="">LLC</span> </span>— Board Member,<a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/05/11/document_gw_10.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> since 2012</a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries </span>— Board member/gubernatorial term appointment (2012–2016). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck </span>— Former shareholder and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181218002847/https" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">department chair</a>, natural resources. Associate (August 1998 – March 2001). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Honorable Scott McInnis, <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> House of Representatives — </span>Various legislative aide positions (1993-1998). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></font></li><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Stuver <span class="amp">&</span> George, <span class="caps" style="">P.C.</span> </span>— Law Clerk (May - August 1992). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/david-bernhardt#s21" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div>