As Nation Transfixed by Impeachment, Trump Quietly Provides Offshore Drilling Industry ‘Sweetheart Giveaway’

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As Nation Transfixed by Impeachment, Trump Quietly Provides Offshore Drilling Industry ‘Sweetheart Giveaway’

Former lobbyist turned Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, says critic, probably assumed gift “to his former oil and gas client would slip by unnoticed.” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was condemned Monday for a proposed policy shift on offshore drilling panned as a “sweetheart giveaway” for a former client.  The new extraction-encouraging proposal was announced […]

Statement on Nomination of David Bernhardt to Interior Secretary

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Statement on Nomination of David Bernhardt to Interior Secretary

  [dropcap]A[/dropcap]cting Secretary Bernhardt is a strong oil and gas ally with a long pattern of putting fossil fuel interests first and the sound stewardship of our natural resources a distant second. Nowhere is this pattern more alarming than with Alaska’s public lands and waters. It was Mr. Bernhardt’s decision, after all, to keep oil and gas lease sales […]