More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows | Trump administration
Donald Trump has placed dozens of people who have ties with the fossil fuel sector under the direction of more than 40 directly working oil, gas or coal companies. New analysis.
The report of a public citizen with a consumer advocacy and ethics criticizing Trump administration analyzed the backgrounds of candidates in the White House and the eight agencies that dictate the Energy, Environmental and Climate Policy. This includes Environmental Protection Agency, Interior and Energy Departments and others.
The analysis comes because Trump has suffered wide attacks on climate and energy policies and renewable energy. For example, the President’s so -called great bill of invoicing opened the drilling and mining areas of federal lands and rapidly maintained the phase of incentives for renewable energy. The administration is also an unprecedented Attack on climate scienceFor example, with an energy department report about the climate change in which experts mocked misleading. The report was created to justify the planned overthrow of a fundamental legal finding that constitutes the basis of almost all US climate regulations.
Toni Aguilar Rosenthal, “The terrible, bad things that occur on the environment front, bad things, the Trump administration, the great author of the amorf, not something gigantic, but not only the Trump administration author,” he said. “Usually this disaster is certain actors from certain mercenaries that perform the deregulator agenda.”
The authors identified 111 employees, which they see as “fossil fuel inside and renewable energy competitors”. It contains 43 people directly employed by coal, oil or gas company. These include well -known senior officials such as Energy Secretary Chris Wright, former CEO of Fracking Company Liberty Energy.
The list also includes less known management members. The efficiency and renewable energy office of the energy department – recently “climate change” and “emissions – for example, are managed by an old Fracking manager. High ranking positions in large oil companies including Shell.
In the report, the authors found that another 12 Trump officials had ties with thought on the right financed by fossil fuel. These include: Former employees and friends of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative group that struggles with renewable energy and is called os Moral Case for Fossil Fuels için, and the anti -environmental Americans supported by fossil fuel brothers and koch brothers.
In the report, a total of 29 other Trump officials, commercial interests, chemicals, automobile construction and mining, such as fossil fuels connected to the pollutant sectors former company managers. Other officials have ties with elected authorities who pushed fossil fuel -selling public services or pro -coal, fat and extortion policies.
The White House spokesman Anna Kelly, who was reached to comment, said, “Guardian to make a press release from a self -defining anti -Trump group and call them a ‘consumer advocacy that does not make profit for profit’ to attack the White House personnel.” He said.
Trump condemned the critics of his administration and warned a pressure against progressive non -profit organizations.
Guardian, the best US Fossil Fuel Lobby company for comment was in contact with the American Petroleum Institute.
Researchers found that only 32 employees in the Ministry of Interior had ties with polluting energy, which made it the most dangerous federal agency. This includes Doug Burgum, Minister of Interior, a North Dakota Governor, who has long been accepting oil financing. pipe Among the fossil fuel industry donors and Donald Trump’s campaign. My burgum The owner of the land In the report, the oil company says it has been rented to continental resources. This company is managed by Major Trump Donor and its ally Harold Hamm. supported.
Fossil fuel donors poured $ 96 million to Trump’s 2025 presidential campaign and affiliated action committees and contributed $ 11.8 million to Trump’s second opening. Since its entry into the office, its administration not only accepted pro -fossil fuel policies and rules, but also maintained tax cuts and tariff carving that benefited from the sector.
In addition to the oil -affiliated candidates and appointed, the authors have identified a few higher UPS, which has been appointed or nominated for strong positions that have little or no subject.
“These people may not be so directly attached to fossil fuels, but their inexperience is dangerous,” said the public citizen’s joint writer and research director, Alan Zibel, in general, talking about the connections of management to fossil fuel interests. “It makes sense that there will be driving or easy notes for the agenda of the oil industry.”
Sean Donahue, a candidate for leading the General Consultancy Office of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, for example, had few legal experiences in EPA, the first Trump administration for three years, and later a briefly regional law firm Buffalo is in New York and then for a solar company.
“He never tried a lawsuit for a case, he never received accumulation, he never signed a plead, and a movement never discussed,” he said. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in May.
Asked Comment A EPA spokesman Molly Vaseliou, a spokesman for Donahue in the climate news in April, defended his nomination. “President Trump made a great choice to choose Sean to lead EPA’s General Consultancy Office,” he said. “A blessing for the agency for the agency that lasted for years at the Federal and State government level.”
In another example, a White House ASSOCIATION ON ENERGY POLICYJarrod Agen took part after working for former Vice President Mike Pence and defense company Lockheed Martin. The report shows that Agen does not have a direct energy industry or policy experience.
Kelly from the White House said: “Secretary Wright, Secretary Burgum and Jarrod Agen, the American people ‘Drad, baby, drill’ is qualified to have the authority to fulfill the energy potential of the nation – President Trump was chosen for the implementation of the Guardian. ‘
Trump supervised a major anti -environmental action in his first period. During the second semester, equipped with right plans such as 2025, the Heritage Foundation Project supervised a much wider and harder pressure on climate rules and renewable energy.
Zibel said the current Trump administration is not completely ashamed of making the oil sector proposal.
“No shame,” he said. “They are proud and prepare to go there and to introduce the fact that they do good for the oil and gas industry, mining industry, coal industry.”
