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</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/in-shift-key-climate-denialist-group-heartland-institute-pivots-to-policy/">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/in-shift-key-climate-denialist-group-heartland-institute-pivots-to-policy/</a></font></div><div><div class="page-meta page-meta--article" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="page-metainner" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="articlepubdate small-caps-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>NOVEMBER 2, 2018</b></font></div><div class="page-metaattribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; display: flex;"><span class="page-metaby" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0.6em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by</font></span><div class="page-metaitem-outer author-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="page-metaitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0.35em; margin-right: 0.35em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/person/katie-worth/" class="page-metaitem-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Worth</font></a></div></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Few entities have worked harder to instill doubt in American minds about the science of climate change than the Heartland Institute.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The self-styled “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/about-us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">action tank</a></span>” has published dozens of books and other media amplifying the voices of those who reject the scientific consensus on climate change.&nbsp; Last year, the libertarian organization&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">mailed</a></span>&nbsp;instructional materials questioning whether global warming is real to science teachers across the nation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, the group is declaring itself victorious in its crusade to convince Americans that climate science is debatable — despite the broad scientific agreement that it is not — and says it is instead pursuing economic and moral arguments to advance policies that bolster domestic fossil fuel production.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It took a while, but we think we’ve won the battle — Al Gore was wrong,” said Heartland president and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">CEO Tim Huelskamp,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;a former Republican Congressman. “Now we’re focusing on implementation.”</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The pivot comes at a paradoxical moment: There has never been more evidence that humans are altering the climate; nor has Heartland’s message to the contrary ever enjoyed a more sympathetic ear in the White House. President Donald Trump has in the past&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/408977616926830592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E408977616926830592&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Ffact-check%2Fdonald-trump-global-warming-hoax%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">described</a></span>&nbsp;climate change as a “hoax;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” last month, days after the United Nations released a&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">report</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;warning that climate change may have catastrophic impact as soon as 2030, Trump&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-climate-change-not-a-hoax-but-questions-if-its-manmade/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;he wasn’t convinced “that it’s man-made.”&nbsp;<b>Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency was&nbsp;</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-myron-ebell-the-climate-contrarian-leading-trumps-epa-transition/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;"><b>led by a close Heartland associate</b></a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Emails obtained by Freedom of Information Act lawsuits&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/meet-myron-ebell-the-climate-contrarian-leading-trumps-epa-transition/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">revealed</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;that under Trump, EPA officials have corresponded with Heartland leaders, in some cases to drum up support for policies and events.&nbsp;<b>Trump’s&nbsp;</b></span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">decision to withdraw</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;from the Paris Climate Accord, his&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-trumps-plan-to-roll-back-fuel-economy-standards-means-for-your-wallet-and-the-environment" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">proposal to roll back</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;car fuel economy standards and his&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rules-on-coal-fired-power-plants-differ-from-obamas" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">plan</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;to support old coal-powered plants are all policies that Heartland has&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/topics/government-politics/trump-action-plan/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">advocated</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heartland anticipated this bonanza. At the climate conference the organization hosted in Washington, D.C. just weeks after Trump’s inauguration in 2017, the mood was jubilant: “This is a wonderful time to be a global warming realist,”&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wgOOss302yc?list=PLgnnPnL9OL7GvpVrMUjl8kJxtjL0PKbKT&t=322" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a></span>&nbsp;Heartland’s then-President Joseph Bast as he kicked off the meeting, using the term the&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">organization uses to describe the movement</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In that same speech, Bast — who has since semi-retired — hinted at a change in strategy: “The scientific debate is essentially over,” he&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wgOOss302yc?list=PLgnnPnL9OL7GvpVrMUjl8kJxtjL0PKbKT&t=452" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a></span>. “What remains to be done is the political battle.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard University professor who examined Heartland and its allies in her book&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">Merchants of Doubt</a></span></span>, said there may be another<b>&nbsp;reason for the pivot: They may have calculated that the science argument is not as effective as it used to be. “</b>Organizations like Heartland are very effective at shifting tactics in response to whatever is happening in that moment,” she said. “If we were to have an unusually cold spell for three years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them pick up the science again.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since its founding in 1984, Chicago-based Heartland has worked on an array of free-market causes. But the organization, historically backed by the fossil fuel industry, is best known for nurturing the idea that climate science is up for debate.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2008, Heartland began hosting what it called “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://climateconferences.heartland.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">International Conferences on Climate Change</a>,</span>” which gathered the world’s most prominent climate contrarians under one roof. The arguments made there against prevailing climate science were diverse and often&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/science/earth/09climate.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">conflicting</a></span>: Some speakers denied the Earth’s atmosphere was changing; others said the Earth was actually cooling; others said it was warming for entirely natural reasons; still others accepted that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was causing the planet to warm, but argued the ensuing changes were good for life on Earth.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Heartland hosted 12 such conferences in 10 years,</b>&nbsp;even as the organization faced setbacks: As its leaders decried global warming a “hoax,” the planet endured year after year of&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">record-breaking global temperatures</a></span>, and most climate scientists became unwilling to debate with Heartland and its allies, worrying that doing so legitimized their message. Heartland faced widespread&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/09/local/la-me-gs-unabomber-billboard-continues-to-hurt-heartland-institute-20120509" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">criticism</a></span>&nbsp;in 2012, when it sponsored a billboard showing the&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span>Unabomber<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span>&nbsp;Ted Kaczynski along with the words,&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I still believe in global warming. Do you?”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the message Heartland has promoted reflects the view of many people in America: In 2008, just 47 percent of Americans agreed there was solid evidence that the Earth was warming due to human causes, according to a&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report/sections/science-and-technology-public-attitudes-and-understanding/public-attitudes-about-specific-s-t-related-issues" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">Pew study</a></span>; as of 2016, that percentage had not much budged.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heartland has not hosted a climate change conference since the weeks after Trump’s election.&nbsp;<b>Instead, in November 2017, the organization held an “America First Energy Conference,</b>” named after and championing the president’s energy policy, and&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/amid-u-n-climate-talks-trump-officials-attend-event-hosted-by-skeptics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">coinciding</a></span>&nbsp;with the U.N’s annual climate talks. It opened with a video message from then-administrator of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, and featured two mid-level Trump administration officials.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August, it held a second of these conferences in New Orleans. The conference&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/about/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">website</a></span>&nbsp;stated that 300 to 400 people were expected to attend, but most of the day it had an audience of 100 or fewer.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Despite the modest attendance, the conference featured</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> three Trump political appointees: Joe Balash,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> assistant secretary for land and minerals management at Department of Interior; Jason Funes, special assistant in DOI’s Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs; and<b>&nbsp;Brooke Rollins,&nbsp;</b>who serves as the assistant to the president for strategic innovations and leads the White House Office of American Innovation.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Despite what the anti-fossil fuel&nbsp;<b>hypocrites&nbsp;</b>say, the everyday American in this country loves fossil fuels,” Funes&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/o-AugwuUtS0?t=75" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">told</a></span>&nbsp;conference attendees. “Under President Trump and Secretary [Ryan] Zinke, the literal war on American fossil fuels is now over and becoming energy dominant is a true reality.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many other panelists were regulars from Heartland’s climate conferences. One of the day’s&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AFEC-2018-event-prog-final.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">panels</a></span>&nbsp;took direct aim at climate science; others were framed around policy, legal challenges, economic arguments, or moral ones.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Oreskes, the economic argument — that climate change is too expensive to fix — have been part of Heartland’s arsenal for years.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the moral argument — the idea that regulating fossil fuels will create “energy poverty” by increasing energy prices so much that people with low incomes can’t afford it — is newer. Oreskes said it’s “one of the most pernicious arguments they’ve ever made.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“A central truth about climate change is that those of us who have benefited the most from using fossil fuels will suffer the least, while poor people, who have hardly benefited, will bear the brunt of climate change,” she said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In December, Heartland plans to be in Katowice, Poland during the U.N.’s next major climate conference, where it will release its book “Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels.” The book is the fifth volume Heartland has edited and published by the “Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change” (NIPCC</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) – a moniker derived from the name of the U.N.’s scientific body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The previous four volumes, published between 2009 and 2014, were all attempts to contradict the climate science reported by the U.N</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. However, according to&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://climatechangereconsidered.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-03-18-Summary-for-Policy-Makers-v3.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">talking points</a></span>&nbsp;that Heartland released earlier this month and distributed to state and federal policymakers, this fifth volume barely touches on climate science. Instead, it focuses on a cost-benefit analysis of reducing fossil fuel usage.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The summary concludes that “nearly all the impacts of fossil fuel use on human well-being are net positive.”</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heartland’s support for the fossil fuel industry has not been reciprocated, of late. Heartland once received financial support from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alpha Natural Resources, among others</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span>&nbsp;but&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">those and other&nbsp;</span>donations&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from the industry have largely&nbsp;</span>dried up; Heartland’s&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.heartland.org/about-us/funding/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">website</a></span>&nbsp;says most of its funding today comes from individual donors and foundations.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In August’s conference on the energy sector, just one person employed by that sector spoke:&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://americafirstenergy.org/Speaker/joe-leimkuhler/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">Joe Leimkuhler</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, vice president of drilling of Louisiana-based deepwater exploration company LLOG Exploration.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Heartland’s president Huelskamp&nbsp;</b>blamed the lack of participation on companies not wanting to jeopardize government contracts, or backtrack on their efforts to promote an environmentally friendly image.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“All these folks continue to think Hillary Clinton still runs things,” Huelskamp said. “So we’re not here promoting individual companies,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">we’re promoting free markets.”</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heartland has also lost organizational allies: The program from its March 2008 climate conference&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://climateconferences.heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ICCC1.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">boasted</a></span>&nbsp;52 co-sponsors from more than 20 countries, nearly all organizations promoting free-market initiatives. That number dwindled over the years, and the&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://climateconferences.heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ICCC-12-program-final.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">program from its 2017 conference listed</a></span>&nbsp;only 10 co-sponsors, two of which were international.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Heartland spokesman Jim Lakely said the decline was due to a policy that co-sponsors must financially support the conference to be listed. “It is no reflection at all on the view of our allies or friends,” he said.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Heartland’s strident policies on climate change may have strained a relationship with one of its most powerful remaining allies: the&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.alec.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></span>,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;an influential organization that unites private interests and conservative politicians to craft legislative proposals. Heartland has long been an instrumental member of ALEC, helping draft model legislation on climate change. But its proposals have alienated some of ALEC’s large corporate members.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;In 2014, eBay, Facebook, Yelp, Microsoft and Google all&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/facebook-abandons-rightwing-lobby-group-alec" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">left</a></span>&nbsp;the organization; then-Google chairman Eric Schmidt&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/09/22/google-were-parting-with-the-climate-change-skeptics-at-alec/?utm_term=.8458111dceb4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a></span>&nbsp;the company was leaving because ALEC was “just literally lying” about climate change. The exodus has continued: This December, ExxonMobil took&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122017/big-oil-heartland-climate-science-misinformation-campaign-koch-api-trump-infographic" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">issue</a></span>&nbsp;with a climate resolution that Heartland had backed in an ALEC meeting. The company chose to&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/396700-exxon-leaves-conservative-advocacy-group-alec" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">step away</a></span>&nbsp;from ALEC in June.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Chris Taylor (<b>D</b>-Wisc.), who attends ALEC meetings and then&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://progressive.org/dispatches/alec%E2%80%99s-attack-on-public-education-a-report-from-the-frontlin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">writes</a></span>&nbsp;about them, said that at a meeting in August, an&nbsp;<b>ALEC task force only barely passed a Heartland-backed&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-in-support-of-the-reconsideration-of-corporate-average-fuel-economy-cafe-standards/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">proposal</a></span>&nbsp;to rewrite fuel economy standards.</b>&nbsp;“It almost went down, because there were 10 or 11 private industry people voting against it,” she said. “I’d never seen that before.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Heartland is being rebuffed again and again and again,” says Kert Davies, founder of the Climate Investigations Center, which monitors organizations that delay action on climate change. “A lot of companies cannot be caught dead supporting the extremist climate denial rhetoric that Heartland proffers.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heartland’s James Taylor dismissed rumors of tension between the two libertarian institutions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“We have the warmest of relationships with ALEC,” he said. “A rift between us is wishful thinking on behalf of the environmental left.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked about tensions between the organizations, ALEC’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president of external relations and strategic partnerships Bill Meierling said in a statement that “differing perspectives generate substantive debate that results in stronger, better policy models.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heartland’s leaders say its new strategy has nothing to do with making itself more palatable to funders or allies, and that they are not abandoning their efforts on science — for example, they are working to&nbsp;<b><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/dueling-books-compete-to-educate-kids-on-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background: transparent; display: inline; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s;">publish a new book</a>&nbsp;on climate change aimed at science teachers and their students.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve convinced the people who matter that there’s profound uncertainty in the science,” said Bast. “So the next step is energy policy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—Nicole Einbinder contributed reporting.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; width: auto; max-width: 660px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katie Worth is a GroundTruth Fellow and a&nbsp;<span class="m-6280591674025893935gmail-il" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2018</span>&nbsp;<span class="m-6280591674025893935gmail-il" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O</span>’<span class="m-6280591674025893935gmail-il" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brien</span>&nbsp;<span class="m-6280591674025893935gmail-il" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fellow</span>&nbsp;in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University’s Diederich College of Communication.&nbsp;</font></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/person/katie-worth/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><h4 style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 31.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Land and Minerals Management</font></h4><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph “Joe” Balash is serving as the Assistant Secretary of Land and Minerals Management. In this role, Balash oversees the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, and head “Interior’s management of all federal lands and waters, and their associated mineral and non-mineral resources, as well as the appropriate regulation of surface coal mining.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash is the former Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and has worked for politicians for more than a decade. Since 1998, Balash has worked for the Alaska Legislature,<b> advised Sarah Palin “on natural resource policy, permitting, and energy,” and most recently, served as Chief of Staff to Senator Dan Sullivan.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 29.45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources: [Department of the Interior,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-secretary-zinke-applauds-nomination-alaskas-joe-balash-assistant-secretary" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 07/20/17, White House,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/19/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Press Release</a>, 07/19/17, and Floor Monitor&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/senategopfloor/status/938833824951230464" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; font-style: italic;">Tweet</a>, 12/07/17]</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additional Background on Employers of Note:</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash was the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, which managed lands and waters that produced “more than 500,000 barrels of oil… daily.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Department of the Interior, Press Release, 07/20/17, and White House, Press Release, 07/19/17]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2014, Joe Balash’s Alaska Department of Natural Resources claimed nearly 20,000 acres of land in ANWR, and Balash said he hoped they be “‘quickly'” transferred, “‘so we can offer them for'” oil and gas leasing.</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In 2014, under Joe Balash’s leadership, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management “laying claim” to 20,000 acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</b> The Alaska Department of Natural Resources requested the BLM “give a priority conveyance of the lands to the state under provisions of the Alaska Statehood Act, which allow[ed] Alaska to select up to 103 million acres of federal lands.” Balash said it was his hope “‘that BLM [would] move quickly to convey the lands so we can offer them for leasing.'”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tim Bradner, “State claims 20,000 acres on edge of ANWR,” Juneau Empire, 10/29/14 and Dermot Cole, “State asks feds for transfer of 19,322 disputed acres on North Slope,” Alaska Dispatch News, 10/20/14]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash, in 2011, testified before Congress in support of a bill to “expedite oil and gas leasing and energy infrastructure permitting” in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Critics of the bill said it could “imperil sensitive habitats for birds and caribou.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash, in June 2011, testified before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources in “support” of “the objectives” of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act. Balash asserted that this legislation was a “good first step towards realizing the potential federal lands in Alaska have to provide domestic energy supplies.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Joe Balash, “The National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act,” House Natural Resources Committee, 06/16/11]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act was legislation to “expedite oil and gas leasing and energy infrastructure permitting” in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Critics of the bill said it “fail[ed] to acknowledge the poor prospects for oil development in the reserve and could imperil sensitive habitats for birds and caribou.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Phil Taylor, “OIL AND GAS: Obama admin objects to Alaska development bill,” Greenwire, 06/16/11]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Joe Balash, in 2013, advocated for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge exploration by asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to allow seismic studies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, as the acting commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Joe Balash advocated for exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Balash petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “to reconsider its decision to bar [Alaska] from conducting seismic studies in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Margaret Kriz Hobson, “Alaska urges Obama admin to reconsider ANWR seismic studies,” Energywire, 08/22/13]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2013, Joe Balash was a “key playe[r]” on a bill to lower oil taxes.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash, in 2013, was one of the “key players on Gov. Sean Parnell’s bill to lower oil taxes.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Alexandra Gutierrez, “Parnell administration shifts focus from oil to natural gas,” Alaska Public Media, 05/02/13]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, Joe Balash approved a lower royalty rate for leases operated by oil company Caelus Energy.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Joe Balash, in 2014, approved a lower royalty rate for some of oil company Caelus Energy’s leases. Balash approved “a 5 percent royalty rate for five Nuna leases” that were part of Caelus Energy’s Nuna project. This was much lower than the original royalty terms, which for four of the leases called “for a 30 percent net profit share and a 12.5 percent royalty” and for the other seven leases “had a 16.7 percent royalty rate.”</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></small><small style="box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[Elwood Brehmer, “Caelus’ Nuna plan to advance with lower royalty rates,” Alaska Journal of Commerce, 11/25/14]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, Joe Balash “accompanied BP officials to Asia on the first formal sales trip” for the Alaska LNG Project.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash, in 2014, “accompanied BP officials to Asia on the first formal sales trip” for the Alaska LNG Project. Balash said that the purpose of the trip was “to demonstrate the alignment between Alaska and the producer companies.”</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Tim Bradner, “Balash heads to Japan with BP to market LNG,” Alaska Journal of Commerce, 09/11/14]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political Connections</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Murkowski</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mead Treadwell</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sarah Palin</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Sullivan</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe Balash has made more than $2,000 in political donations to conservative candidates and causes, including the Alaska Republican party, Lisa Murkowski, and Mead Treadwell.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2005, Joe Balash has given $2,100 to conservative candidates and causes, including the Alaska Republican party, Lisa Murkowski, and Mead Treadwell.</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[National Institute on Money in State Politics Search for Joe Balash, 07/24/17]</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Financials</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Financial Disclosure</font></small><small style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This story was updated at 9:40 p.m. EDT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Newly leaked Interior Department documents raise questions about the environmental review of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The documents show that federal scientists drafted 18 memos detailing the environmental "unknowns" of drilling in the Arctic refuge, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which recently obtained the documents and published them today.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PEER charged that those documents have been excluded from public view and not released in accordance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by advocacy groups. The advocacy group has petitioned the Interior Office of Inspector General to review the matter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But top Interior Department officials, including Assistant Secretary Joe Balash and career employee and <b>Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Alaska Regional Director Greg Siekaniec</b>, fiercely defended the agency's process and said PEER's claims were untrue.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"The Department is still processing numerous FOIA requests regarding the Coastal Plain, </b>including request to which the information referenced by PEER may be responsive. PEER’s assertion that the Department is willfully 'hiding' relevant documents in response to those requests is untrue," Balash said in a statement to E&E News.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PEER asserted otherwise. "These memos were treated as if they did not exist," said Tim Whitehouse, the new PEER executive director and a former EPA attorney. "The Trump administration apparently does not want to admit that it is flying blind in opening one of the most sensitive places on the planet to petroleum development."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December, the Trump administration released its draft environmental review for a potential oil and gas lease sale on the refuge's 1.5-million-acre coastal plain. The agency has held eight public hearings on the proposal; the public comment period ends tomorrow (Energywire, Feb. 13).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those memos were drafted last year and covered a wide range of work by government scientists, including on soils, permafrost, wetlands, climate, air quality, oil spills and various species in the area, including the populous caribou herd. They covered topics that were both "extensive" and "of major significance," PEER said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PEER also charged the agency with intentionally excluding scientific work from the draft environmental assessment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Our sources are concerned," Whitehouse said, alleging that that could be a violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, making the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) legally vulnerable.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Balash argued that the "EIS will not authorize any on-the-ground activity associated with the exploration or development of oil and gas resources on the Coastal Plain. Future on-the-ground actions requiring BLM approval, including potential exploration and development proposals, would require further NEPA analysis based on the site-specific proposal," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>FWS director Siekaniec said that concerns about suppressed science were "simply overstated."</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agency was asked to "investigate what our information gaps are regarding development of a series of Environmental Impact Statements that will lead to an oil and gas program for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," Siekaniec said. "We did this with the understanding that existing, new, and/or much more current information will best inform EIS development. This was not intended to be a 'list' of science that informs only a leasing EIS," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"None of our science concerns have been suppressed within the Agency or Department," Siekaniec said.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PEER is an organization of federal employees who work on environmental issues. It has for decades exposed alleged wrongdoing at agencies and protected whistleblowers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whitehouse said the large number of government employees participating in the Arctic refuge environmental review makes them nearly impossible to overlook. The employees work for the Bureau of Land Management as well as the Fish and Wildlife Service.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We believe that they were deliberately withheld both from the DEIS process and from FOIA requests to which these memos would have been directly responsible," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Balash said that after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ordered the Interior Secretary to move towards leasing tracts in the refuge,</b> "leadership at the Department directed multiple agencies, including (FWS), to review of all existing studies, data, surveys, scientific literature, and information that had been gathered on the Coastal Plain to support the development of the program. The assessment of this information identified all of the information that will be needed to support the full range of activities—well beyond the leasing stage," he said. That assessment is still informing multiple agencies "on what studies to conduct and when," Balash said</span>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067</cite></font></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&oq=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&aqs=chrome..69i57.7015j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b1" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ7B0wAXoECAEQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQqR8wAXoECAEQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDABegQIARAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDABegQIARAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDABegQIARAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Mar 12, 2019 -&nbsp;</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ARCTIC</span>. Interior hid scientists' criticism of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">ANWR</span>&nbsp;drilling: report ... to those requests is untrue,"&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Balash</span>&nbsp;said in a statement to E&E News.</font></span></a></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MqjmGnLxNRoJ:https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060127067%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDABegQIARAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>boem</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+%22boem%22+arctic+anwr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ5t4CMAF6BAgBEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">boem</font></a></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFSgAMAJ6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Feds take step to open ANWR to drilling, release environmental report ...</a></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.adn.com/.../feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmen...</cite></font></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&oq=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&aqs=chrome..69i57.7015j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b2" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ7B0wAnoECAIQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; 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box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Dec 20, 2018 -&nbsp;</span>The report proposes leasing options in sections of the coastal plain of the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arctic</span>National Wildlife Refuge, setting the stage for drilling.</font></span></a></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:GE6y-mJlK_UJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2018/12/20/feds-take-step-to-open-anwr-to-drilling-releasing-environmental-report-for-public-review/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>boem</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+%22boem%22+arctic+anwr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ5t4CMAJ6BAgCEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">boem</font></a></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFSgAMAN6BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">No seismic exploration for oil in ANWR this winter, company says ...</a></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.adn.com/.../no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-...</cite></font></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&oq=balash+boem+arctic+anwr&aqs=chrome..69i57.7015j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b3" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ7B0wA3oECAMQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; 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line-height: 1.54;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDADegQIAxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDADegQIAxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Feb 23, 2019 -&nbsp;</span>SAExploration said it's now looking to conduct the first seismic shoot in decades to hunt for oil in the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arctic</span>&nbsp;National Wildlife Refuge next winter.</font></span></a></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:ASBid1e4oegJ:https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2019/02/23/no-seismic-exploration-for-oil-in-anwr-this-winter-company-says/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQIDADegQIAxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>boem</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+%22boem%22+arctic+anwr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ5t4CMAN6BAgDEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">boem</font></a></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFSgAMAR6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Interior Dept. Moves Toward Selling Oil Leases in Arctic Refuge - The ...</a></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/climate/alaska-anwr-oil-drilling-proposal.html</cite></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.54;">Dec 20, 2018 -&nbsp;</span>Porcupine caribou on the coastal plain of the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arctic</span>&nbsp;National Wildlife Refuge ... “<wbr />We have undertaken a rigorous effort here,” said Joe&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Balash</span>, an&nbsp;...</font></span></font></font><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Missing:&nbsp;<s>boem</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎<a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=balash+%22boem%22+arctic+anwr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQ5t4CMAR6BAgEEAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">boem</a></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFSgAMAV6BAgFEAA" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; 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text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2018/08/09/454309/powerful-arctic-oil-lobby-group-youve-never-heard/&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAFegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; 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Section 1002 Area (the 1002 Area) of the&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arctic</span>&nbsp;National Wildlife Refuge (<wbr /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ANWR</span>). ... USGS and&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">BOEM</span>&nbsp;Release Updated Resource Assessments. ... and other development leading to the production of oil and gas” within&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">ANWR</span>, ... Mr.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Balash</span>&nbsp;previously served as Alaska's natural resources commissioner.</span></a></div></div></div></div></span></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFSgAMAd6BAgHEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/10/alaska-awards-beaufort-sea-leases-following-anwr-boundary-review.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/10/alaska-awards-beaufort-sea-leases-following-anwr-boundary-review.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/10/alaska-awards-beaufort-sea-leases-following-anwr-boundary-review.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/10/alaska-awards-beaufort-sea-leases-following-anwr-boundary-review.html&ved=2ahUKEwiE_9Db1ZPhAhVCF6wKHfhPA8wQFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; 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