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Oh look, a new alligator.
| Quote: | | President Donald Trump announced he will nominate former energy lobbyist David Bernhardt, the acting secretary of the Interior, to lead the department. |
He has his own web site--for those who think he is too conflicted.
| Quote: | EX-LOBBYIST WHO IS TOO CONFLICTED
TO BE INTERIOR SECRETARY
David Bernhardt is the “ultimate DC swamp creature” who has gone round and round through the revolving door between industry and government:
1990's
Bernhardt began his career in the 1990s working for Scott McInnis (R-CO) before taking a position in the Washington lobbying shop of Brownstein, Hyatt and Farber, where he lobbied on behalf of oil and chemical companies.
2001
In 2001, Bernhardt went to work for the Interior Department. His time at Interior was marred by scandal, including when he replaced independent government analysis in congressional testimony with reports funded by oil companies, oversaw the forced resignation of a whistleblower, and served as Counselor to the Secretary when the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal was ravaging the Interior Department.
2009
In 2009, Bernhardt returned to Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, and became the head of its natural resources lobbying shop, where his clients included oil, gas, and mining companies.
2017
In August 2017, Bernhardt was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Interior. Since then, he has led Interior’s review of the 2015 sage grouse plans, started weakening the Endangered Species Act, rescinded Obama-era climate change and conservation policies, and undermined Interior’s ability to make decisions based on the best available scientific research, just to name a few of his attacks on public lands and wildlife.
As a private attorney, Bernhardt represented clients likely to have additional business before the Department of Interior. Some of the other clients he represented and positions he argued include:
Bernhardt defended new oil and gas leasing on the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
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As an attorney with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt represented the National Ocean Industries Association as an intervenor defendant, defending the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM)’s approval of two lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico where the Deepwater Horizon spill had occurred two years earlier. Plaintiff environmental organizations alleged violations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of BOEM. [Oceana v. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (D.D.C. 2014).]
Bernhardt defended a project that threatened wildlife living the Delta-Mendota Canal.
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With Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt argued for the Westlands Water District, one of the plaintiffs challenging the legality of the 2009 Biological Opinion issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The Biological Opinion determined that the Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) proposed project to store and deliver water to agricultural and domestic consumers in California would jeopardize some of the Delta Mendota Canal’s endangered Salmonoids, and required Reclamation to change the way it pumps waters out of the California Central Valley’s rivers. Bernhardt alleged violations of the ESA and APA. The Ninth Circuit Court upheld the Biological Opinion. [San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Locke (9th Cir. 2014).]
Bernhardt represented a Native American community with tribal land holdings in Wisconsin.
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With Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt represented the Forest County Potawatomi Community, challenging DOI’s decision to disapprove a 2014 amendment to a gaming compact between the Plaintiff and the State of Wisconsin under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. [Forest County Potawatomi Community v. United States (D.D.C. 2017).]
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The Potawatomi Reservation, located primarily in Forest County, Wisconsin, totals 12,000 acres– 9,000 acres are trust land, and 3,000 acres are fee land. [Forest County Potawatomi Community]
Bernhardt defended the EPA’s leniency towards a coal-fired power plant located on tribal lands.
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With Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Bernhardt represented Central Arizona Water Conservation District, defending EPA’s source-specific Federal Implementation Plan under the Clean Air Act for the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona. Petitioners sought final review of EPA’s plan, alleging that EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously in failing to comply with statutory deadlines for implementation of portions of Clean Air Act. [Yazzie v. EPA (9th Cir. 2017).]
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This is what the oily boys get for funding Trump:
| Quote: | | The Interior Department granted almost 1,700 exemptions to offshore oil drillers from safety regulations implemented following BP PLC's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, awarding the exemptions during the first 20 months after the regulation entered into effect, according to data obtained by a media outlet through a Freedom of Information Act request. Over a third of the exemptions to the rule, which the Trump administration is revising, allow companies not to follow the rule's requirements on tests for blowout preventers used in offshore activities. ( Politico) |
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if they have nothing to hide why are they hiding everything...
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/white-house-refuses-hand-over-202405168.html
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued a statement Tuesday regarding the White House’s refusal to hand over documents related to security clearance issues, calling the existing system “broken.”
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| Quote: | | “The White House appears to be arguing that Congress has no authority to examine decisions by the Executive Branch that impact our national security ― even when the president’s former national security advisor has pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with foreign government officials,” wrote Cummings, who chairs the House oversight committee. “The White House security clearance system is broken, and it needs both congressional oversight and legislative reform.” |
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Speaking of swamps, or overflowing porta-poots ... I hope every one of the rotten POSs involved in that college entrance cheating ring spends from 10 to 20 years in prison. Think how your hard-working kid would feel knowing that he failed to get a well-deserved slot at a top school because some rich kid's parents BOUGHT their little POS a slot by paying 6- to 7-figure bribes to coaches, ACT exam monitors, professional test-takers (they even identified one by name; he needs at least a decade in prison), etc. One of these spoiled little shits was boasting on YouTube that she didn't expect to bother with classes, just wanted to party. My hypothetical kid would not get one cent from me, for school or in my will, if that was her attitude, and I'd be ashamed to admit I was her father.
Is this how you immoral (by definition and demonstration) liberals raise your GD kids, or is this kind of behavior simply rampant these days? |
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| isobars wrote: | Speaking of swamps, or overflowing porta-poots ... I hope every one of the rotten POSs involved in that college entrance cheating ring spends from 10 to 20 years in prison. Think how your hard-working kid would feel knowing that he failed to get a well-deserved slot at a top school because some rich kid's parents BOUGHT their little POS a slot by paying 6- to 7-figure bribes to coaches, ACT exam monitors, professional test-takers (they even identified one by name; he needs at least a decade in prison), etc. One of these spoiled little shits was boasting on YouTube that she didn't expect to bother with classes, just wanted to party. My hypothetical kid would not get one cent from me, for school or in my will, if that was her attitude, and I'd be ashamed to admit I was her father.
Is this how you immoral (by definition and demonstration) liberals raise your GD kids, or is this kind of behavior simply rampant these days? |
yes them trust fund kids parents didn't donalds father hide hundreds of millions for his kids.
ya and with citizens united the rich can pay off politicians but not colleges.
ya and a traitor to america, cheating for 10-20 years of his adult life, making 10s of millions, selling out his country got less than 4 years
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