As the global pandemic rages, the Trump administration has quietly pushed forward hundreds of sweeping regulatory changes that benefit industry, hurt consumers, and have virtually nothing to do with the fight against Coronavirus.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s former lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (BHFS) is cashing in on the coronavirus pandemic. BHFS has reported a huge uptick in business from clients seeking COVID-19 bailouts from the Trump administration, gaining 17 new clients in recent weeks, including a Trump-connected mortgage company.
Federal Reserve Decision Mirrors Independent Petroleum Association of America’s Request Trump’s Federal Reserve opened the floodgates to big oil in a decision that will allow financially unsustainable oil and gas […]
New analysis by Western Values Project found that over one-third of big oil, mining, and related industries have already been awarded bailouts totaling nearly $3.9 billion through President Trump’s Small Business Administration.
The Trump administration released the long-delayed Nuclear Fuel Working Group report today. Buried in the report is a small provision that green lights uranium mining in the Grand Canyon area and on other public lands without environmental review.
Hallador Energy, An Indiana-Based Extractive Resource Corporation, Granted $10 Million In Bailout Funds Slated For Small Businesses A recently published story by the Washington Post based on Western Values Project […]
On the Deepwater Horizon anniversary, Western Values Project released new research on the Gulf oil producers requesting a massive bailout from the Trump administration polluting past.
The oil and gas industry has given over $1.2 million in campaign donations to the five governors from oil states that are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to suspend the Renewable Fuel Standard.
President Trump’s Interior Department is using a loophole in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to give corporations access to billions of dollars in emergency COVID-19 relief funds earmarked for Native American tribes.
Trump’s Interior Department has already begun the process of reducing royalty rates for oil production and told members of Congress that oil and gas corporations should begin applying for royalty reductions and lease suspensions through existing procedures.
