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John,
We’ve told you before about David Bernhardt, Trump’s latest (not the first) corrupt, climate-denying Secretary of the Interior.
Last time we updated you, Bernhardt had just been confirmed despite nearly 200,000 of signatures opposing his nomination. The vote was largely along party lines, with the same three same Democrats who voted against the Green New Deal — Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) — voting for Bernhardt.
But now there’s a new opportunity to take down another Trump Administration official, like we did with Zinke, Pruitt and others before. Congress is considering opening an investigation into Bernhardt’s cozy relationship with his former lobbying clients. Can you help us encourage them to do so?
Add your name to tell Congress to investigate David Bernhardt’s corrupt connections to his past lobbying clients.
Just like Trump’s impeachable conduct with the Ukraine – there’s real evidence and legal basis to remove Bernhardt. One of his first acts upon being appointed to Secretary of Interior was to engineer the largest rollback of the Endangered Species Act in history.
And in the last few weeks, Bernhardt’s DOI gave one of his largest former clients, the Westlands Water District, a special deal to use more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which supports many threatened and endangered species.
Bernhardt has spent his entire career working for climate profiteers who make a killing off of killing our climate and environment. But he may have gone too far in doing favors for the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).
The IPAA is a group of oil and gas producers like Shell, ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil that have multibillion dollar stakes in exploiting previously protected lands and waters. They also have a track record of harming working class communities and communities of color. But earlier this year they boasted about having “unprecedented access” to Trump administration officials, including “direct access” to Bernhardt himself.
Even for the Trump administration, this is naked, brazen corruption. And it’s up to Congress to investigate, and eventually remove Bernhardt from office — just like they’re doing with the impeachment investigation.
Sign here to tell Congress they must investigate Bernhardt and determine whether he is using his cabinet-level position to promote the interests of past clients – and if so, they need to impeach him too.
Drew and the 198 methods crew.
Photo by the US Department of Agriculture
Sources
- https://www.198methods.org/2019/04/16/quick-slightly-belated-update-on-bernhardt/
- https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-to-oppose-david-bernhardts-nomination-for-secretary-of-the-interior-department
- https://www.198methods.org/2019/03/29/talk-about-the-green-new-deal-not-this-senate-vote/
- https://www.198methods.org/2018/09/25/the-case-to-fire-zinke/
- https://www.198methods.org/2018/05/15/call-in-with-bernie-sanders-tonight-to-firepruitt/
- https://www.198methods.org/2018/07/28/save-the-endangered-species-act/
- https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-11-15/interior-secretary-westlands-water-deal
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/climate/interior-secretary-ethics.html
- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/435437-oil-execs-boasted-of-unprecedented-access-to-admin-report
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