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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially renamed its Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) to the Energy and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). The division is actively hiring and shifting its focus toward prioritizing energy security and promoting domestic oil, gas, and power production. [1, 2]

Key Changes and Actions

The Rename: The division dropped the word "Environment" to signal a broader policy shift towards energy development, infrastructure, and "American energy dominance". The agency's official website is available on the DOJ Energy and Natural Resources Division Portal. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The Rationale: Officials leading the change stated that "energy security is national security," highlighting a renewed focus on defending the administration's energy policies and pushing back against state-level climate litigation. You can read the division leadership's official announcement via the Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. [1, 2]

Key Hires: The DOJ has appointed Robert Levy, former executive counsel at ExxonMobil, as a senior counsel within the newly renamed division. [1]

Litigation Pivot: The department is refocusing efforts to defend federal orders on fossil fuel production and challenging state laws (such as climate legislation in California, Hawaii, and New York) that it argues obstruct energy progress. [1, 2]

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[E&E News by POLITICO Exxon lawyer to join DOJ energy division

2 days ago](https://www.eenews.net/articles/exxon-lawyer-to-join-doj-energy-division/)

A senior-level attorney at Exxon Mobil is retiring from the oil and gas company this month and joining the Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division.

“I’m excited to contribute to the [Trump] Administration’s energy priorities and to our nation’s environmental and legal landscape,” said Robert Levy, executive counsel at Exxon, in a June post on LinkedIn.

Levy said he would depart Exxon after 17 years at the company. His move comes as DOJ last month announced its Environment and Natural Resources Division will now be known as the Energy and Natural Resources Division.

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A top attorney at ExxonMobil is joining the Trump administration. Robert Levy, executive counsel at the fossil fuel giant, recently announced he’s retiring after 17 years at ExxonMobil and will join the Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division. It was previously the Environment and Natural Resources Division. In November, Levy was one of a few major oil company executives to attend the COP30 United Nations climate talks in Brazil, where he promoted the continued burning of fossil fuels.

Darren Woods: “Crude, crude oil, and hydrocarbons are going to play a critical role in everybody’s life for a long time to come.”

In response, Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, wrote, “Big Oil’s capture of the U.S. government is now complete. … The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now work on behalf of polluters to advance the poisoning of people and the planet.”

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big Oil Takeover ‘Now Complete,’ Watchdog Warns as Exxon Lawyer Joins Trump DOJ

“The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now work on behalf of polluters to advance the poisoning of people and the planet.”

Jake Johnson

Jul 07, 2026

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The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and Natural Resources Division, a move one watchdog organization said shows that “Big Oil’s capture of the US government is now complete.”

Robert Levy, who worked at Exxon for 17 years, announced in a recent LinkedIn post that he is departing the company, whose profits surged amid the Trump administration’s illegal war on Iran. Levy will reportedly serve as senior counsel at the DOJ’s Energy and Natural Resources Division, which the Trump Justice Department renamed last month from the Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, said in a statement Monday that “the new so-called Energy and Natural Resources Division at the Justice Department explicitly aims to abuse emergency powers to drive oil and gas production, override state environmental enforcement, and generally serve at the beck and call of Big Oil.”

“Nothing could make that more clear than the naming of Robert Levy, ExxonMobil’s former executive counsel, a position that had him leading the company’s legal strategy on advocacy and civil justice, to run the division,” said Weissman. “The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now work on behalf of polluters to advance the poisoning of people and the planet.”

US President Donald Trump campaigned in 2024 on delivering massive, climate-destroying wins for the oil and gas industry, which spent hundreds of millions of dollars to support the president’s White House bid and the campaigns of his Republican allies.

Fossil fuel giants have received a significant return on their investment. As Owen Bacskai of the Brennan Center for Justice noted, Trump’s “signature legislative package—which one executive deemed ‘positive for us across all of our top priorities’—gives oil and gas firms $18 billion in tax incentives while rolling back incentives for clean energy alternatives.”

Trump has also “placed fossil fuel allies in charge of the agencies that oversee the industry and fast-tracked drilling projects on public lands,” Bacskai wrote. “In just his first 100 days back in office, Trump took at least 145 actions to undo environmental rules—more than he reversed during his entire first term as president. Before Trump even reentered the White House, the industry was reportedly pre-drafting executive orders for him to issue.”

Perhaps the biggest gift to Big Oil was the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision earlier this year to repeal the “endangerment finding” underpinning climate regulations.

Critics expect more of the same industry-friendly actions from the Trump DOJ’s Energy and Natural Resources Division, which last week touted its role in defending “Trump’s executive orders on unleashing American energy, reinvigorating the clean coal industry, and declaring an energy emergency.”

Last year, Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project released an analysis showing that the Trump administration has installed dozens of former fossil fuel industry employees, executives, and lawyers across the federal government, positioning Big Oil allies to advance “the massive expansion of polluting energy, the destruction of public lands, and the sabotage and suppression of renewable energy.”

“This is nothing short of a Texas oil industry takeover of the US government at the expense of consumers, the climate, public health, and public lands and waters,” Alan Zibel, a research director at Public Citizen, said at the time of the report’s release. “To execute his extreme, reckless, backward-looking fossil fuel agenda, Trump has stocked his administration with fossil fuel staffers and ideologues.”

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[### Robert Levy - Executive Counsel at ExxonMobil

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Robert Levy serves as Executive Counsel at ExxonMobil, where he leads the company's legal strategy on advocacy and civil justice reform. His work includes ...Read more

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Experience

Member

Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee

Jan 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

Public Policy

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[Executive Counsel - Legal Policy ExxonMobil · Full-time

Aug 2009 - Present · 17 yrs

Spring Texas](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1689/)

Civil Justice Reform, Information Governance, Data Privacy and Electronic Discovery

Litigation, Corporate Law and +5 skills

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Board Member

HVLP

2000 - 2010 · 10 yrs

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[Partner Haynes and Boone, LLP

Feb 1995 - Aug 2009 · 14 yrs 7 mos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/9778/)

Litigation, Arbitration and +1 skill

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Shareholder

Johnson & Gibbs

Mar 1990 - Feb 1995 · 5 yrs

Litigation

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[Associate Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Sep 1987 - Feb 1990 · 2 yrs 6 mos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/166907/)

Litigation

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[Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Robert Parker US Courts

Sep 1986 - Aug 1987 · 1 yr](https://www.linkedin.com/company/4658/)

Litigation

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Summer Associate

Hiller Kornfeld & Falik

1985 - 1985 · Less than a year

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[Assistant Sergeant at Arms Texas Senate

1983 - 1983 · Less than a year](https://www.linkedin.com/company/2948/)

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My thanks to Lawyers for Civil Justice for its leadership focused on improving our legal system through advocacy in the area of court rules, particularly the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. I am proud to have been part of this organization for the last 16 1/2 years.

Ryan Lobato Verified Profile 3rd+Ryan Lobato • 3rd+ VP-Legal | Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & AI | Tech-Focused Legal Executive | CIPP/US-E, AIGP | Ex-ExxonMobil, Raytheon

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Congratulations, Robert. This is a well-deserved recognition of a mountain of work.

Mark Behrens Verified Profile 3rd+Mark Behrens • 3rd+ Co-Chair, Public Policy Group of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

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Thanks for all you did for LCJ and to advance civil justice.

[### Robert L. Levy

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May 21, 2025 — Robert Levy serves as Executive Counsel at ExxonMobil, where he leads the company's legal strategy on advocacy and civil justice reform.

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am looking forward to the Federalist Society’s May 21st Regulatory and Transparency Project program: Energy Emergency: Executive Power and the Future of U.S. Energy where I will give the keynote address. https://lnkd.in/gHuh_5-M

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