Corporate Calendars

Dirty energy interests are swamping the U.S. Interior Department under the Trump administration. A new analysis shows that top Interior Department officials held 12 times as many meetings with executives from the oil, gas, electricity, coal and mining industries as with conservation and renewable energy interests.

Public Citizen and Documented Investigations analyzed calendars of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Deputy Secretary Katharine MacGregor, both of whom are former lobbyists. The analysis focused on 361 meetings listed on Bernhardt and MacGregor’s calendars from January 2017 through March 2019.

The results provide a window into the extensive access provided to corporate polluters in the Trump era, showing 235 meetings with executives from the oil, gas, electricity, coal and mining industries. By contrast, conservation and renewable energy interests had only 19 meetings with the top two officials. Lobbying and law firms, who mostly represented industry interests, had 31 meetings. Hunting groups had 21 meetings.

Major trade groups and companies that met with Bernhardt and MacGregor included the American Petroleum Institute (10 meetings); the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents the offshore drilling industry (nine); meetings with multiple oil industry groups and companies (eight); individual meetings with Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips (six each); the National Petroleum Council (six) and the National Mining Association (five).

By comparison, the calendars for Bernhardt and MacGregor show 21 meetings with hunting groups such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (4 meetings), Ducks Unlimited (4) and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (3). The calendars show 10 meetings with conservation groups such as the National Park Foundation, Public Lands Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Nature Conservancy nine meetings with renewable energy interests including the American Wind Energy Association and Solar Energy Industries Association.

The calendars, which are available  online, were obtained through Interior Department public disclosures and public records requests. The Interior Department has released calendars for both Bernhardt and MacGregor from 2017 through 2018. Bernhardt’s calendars for 2019 and part of 2020 have also been posted on the Interior Department’s website, but those newer calendars contain almost no detail and mostly obscure the identities of individuals and companies meeting with Bernhardt. The Interior Department has not published MacGregor’s calendars since November 2018.

This examination of calendars of Bernhardt and MacGregor builds upon a previous Documented analysis finding that MacGregor held 62 meetings with groups lobbying to open more U.S. waters to offshore drilling. Separately, Documented also found at least 70 meetings between top Trump administration officials at the Interior Department and former Bernhardt clients or employers, including his former law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the U.S. Oil and Gas Association and the National Ocean Industries Association.

Both Bernhardt and MacGregor have worked in the Trump administration since its start. Bernhardt was the Interior Department’s deputy secretary, and then acting secretary after former secretary Ryan Zinke’s resignation in late 2018.  A longtime lobbyist for the oil industry and big agricultural interests, Bernhardt was confirmed as secretary in April 2019.  He is perhaps best known for having a list of conflicts so extensive that he had to carry around an index card to remember them all. Bernhardt’s former legal and lobbying clients include onshore and offshore oil and gas firms, water pipeline projects, tribal interests, agribusiness and mining firms, among others. A Public Citizen analysis released earlier this year found that former lobbying and legal clients of Bernhardt spent about $30 million lobbying the federal government since the start of the Trump administration, and that 17 former lobbying and legal clients who were on Bernhardt’s recusal list have lobbied the federal government since the start of the Trump administration.

MacGregor briefly worked as a lobbyist before becoming a Republican congressional staffer. Another early hire of former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, MacGregor was confirmed as the agency’s deputy secretary in February. MacGregor, who touted the Trump administration’s agenda of “energy dominance” in Fox News and Bloomberg interviews, has been a close ally of the energy industry. An industry official said in a recording obtained by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting that “we’ll call Kate” was the energy industry’s default solution to regulatory roadblocks.As reported by Reveal, MacGregor helped a former client of Secretary David Bernhardt secure oil and gas drilling permits from the Bureau of Land Management, though the company seeking the permits filed “deficient” applications, according to Interior Department documents  obtained by Documented Investigations and Public Citizen through a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Interior Department’s open-door policy toward corporate interests has led to direct benefits for the oil and gas industry.

Two of the entities with the most access to top Interior officials, the American Petroleum Institute and the National Ocean Industries Association, are prime examples. Both groups lobby for offshore oil and gas corporations, among other interests.

With Bernhardt and MacGregor at the helm, Interior has bulldozed a wide path through the offshore regulatory structure, allowing offshore oil and gas interests to ramp up production. The Gulf of Mexico is now producing more oil and gas than ever, though instances of spills and accidents are on the rise.

Internal documents from NOIA and the Interior Department reveal that the agency has worked had to satisfy the industry’s goals. In April of 2017, MacGregor facilitated a meeting between former Secretary Ryan Zinke and NOIA, in which NOIA discussed “support for increased access to new offshore acreage.” In a memo preparing Secretary Zinke for this NOIA meeting, MacGregor wrote  “The Department’s ultimate goal is to open access to new offshore areas.”

Later that year, at a meeting at the Jackson Hole, Wyo. Four Seasons hotel  in October 2017, NOIA outlined a wish list of “priority regulatory issues”  involving the rollback of rules for offshore oil in the Trump era, calling the need for “collaboration among all stakeholders.” In attendance was MacGregor, then an assistant secretary at Interior.

Then, in May 2018, MacGregor held a meeting in May 2018 on opening currently closed Gulf of Mexico waters with former Senator David Vitter, now a lobbyist with Mercury Public Affairs who has lobbied for EnVen Energy Ventures.

The offshore oil industry trade group is also an ex-client of Bernhardt. At Brownstein Hyatt,  Bernhardt represented NOIA in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups to challenge an Obama administration offshore lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Bernhardt appears to have been a regular speaker at NOIA’s annual meetings, speaking at a 2011 spring meeting, appearing in photos with former Vice President Dick Cheney and industry executives at the group’s fall 2013 meeting, and speaking again at the 2014 annual meeting.

At the latter event, Bernhardt gave a presentation on regulatory issues in the wake of the April 2010 oil rig explosion, which killed 11 people and triggered an 87-day oil spill. Bernhardt argued that federal enforcement authority does not apply to contractors” such as Halliburton, the BP contractor that was found to have used flawed cement at the BP offshore well. In 2017, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the industry, holding that the Interior Department’s oil drilling safety division does not have authority over contractors.

Trump named Scott Angelle, a Louisiana politician and longtime ally of the offshore drilling industry to run the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the Interior Department bureau that oversees the offshore drilling industry. In September 2017, Angelle said his agency “is clearly moving from creating hardships to creating partnerships, from an era of isolation to an era of cooperation.”  However, a Public Citizen report in March 2018 found that at least nine companies fined by BSEE in recent years had corporate, personal or family member donations to Angelle’s political campaigns.  The report found that these nine companies or associated individuals contributed $142,750 directly to Angelle’s campaigns in the past. They have also paid more than $3.6 million to BSEE over the past five years related to 47 separate incidents.

Another industry priority, promoted by the American Petroleum Association and others, has been the opening up of the Atlantic coast to offshore drilling. In March of 2019, a top Trump official let slip that the Atlantic coast would be available of offshore leasing and drilling. Only intense political pushback has kept the 5-year plan from completion. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) held up MacGregor’s confirmation as Deputy Secretary to ensure the Trump administration would not allow drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the east coast of Florida. Rubio then lifted the hold on MacGregor after conversations with the Trump administration.

However, under the Trump administration, most of the offshore drilling industry’s priority issues have been enacted through a series of rollbacks that put the environment and worker safety at risk including:

• A rollback of an offshore oil rig safety rule that could help prevent a repeat of the 2010 BP oil spill, which killed 11 workers and devastated coastal ecosystems.
• Giving the offshore oil industry nearly 1,700 exemptions to safety rules.
• Giving oil companies a discount on fees to boost production at offshore oil wells.
• Rolling back rules to protect taxpayers from incurring the cost of decommissioning unused offshore oil and gas rigs.
• Easing regulations on high pressure, high temperature offshore drilling machinery. Drilling in ultra-deep water using this new and dangerous oil drilling technique, is growing in popularity in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Interior Department has also done favor after favor for companies that want to profit by drilling for oil and gas on public lands. In 2019, the Wilderness Society estimated that oil leases issued during the Trump administration could result in as much greenhouse gas emissions as all 28 members of the European union produce in one year. Regulatory changes include:

• Pushing to allow oil drilling in the formerly off-limits Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, after Congress authorized doing so in the 2017 tax bill, though the administration missed its goal of selling the first oil leases in 2019.
• Weakening the Endangered Species Act by making it harder to designate species that are likely to be threatened by future events such as climate change and by opening the door to analysis of the effect of endangered species designations on corporate interests such as developers or logging companies.
• Rolling back rules and polices protecting clean air, water and wildlife to allow more drilling and mining on public lands, including getting rid of rules aimed at reducing methane leaks, boosting more oil leasing in the habitat of the vulnerable greater sage grouse and eliminating punishment for companies and local governments that kill migratory birds.
• Eliminating punishment for companies and local governments that kill migratory birds. A former client of Bernhardt, the Independent Petroleum Producers Association, specifically requested this action in a September 2017 letter to Zinke.

List of Meetings Held By Bernhardt and MacGregor

 

Date	Group/company	Sector	Interior Official
1/18/2017	Equinox Gold	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
2/1/2017	Midas Gold	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
2/6/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/8/2017	Monsanto	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
2/8/2017	Gulf Energy Alliance/Fieldwood Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/9/2017	Cloud Peak Energy	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
2/13/2017	Shell	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/14/2017	NextEra Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
2/14/2017	American Exploration & Production Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/14/2017	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/14/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/14/2017	Peabody Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/15/2017	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Benedetto,
2/17/2017	International Association of Geophysical Contractors	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/21/2017	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/23/2017	American Exploration & Production Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/24/2017	Cadiz Inc	Agriculture/Water	MacGregor, Magallanes, Bennedetto
3/1/2017	Arctic Slope Regional Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/3/2017	Highland Copper	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/9/2017	Twin Metals	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/15/2017	Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
3/16/2017	BP	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Domenech, Cason, Magallanes
3/20/2017	National Ocean Policy Coalition	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/21/2017	Arch Coal	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/21/2017	Interstate Mining Compact Commission	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/21/2017	Chevron	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/21/2017	Moncrief Oil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/22/2017	E2 Strategies	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
3/22/2017	Murphy Oil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/23/2017	Maritime Executives	Fishing/Maritime	Katharine MacGregor
3/28/2017	Gateway West	Telecom	Katharine MacGregor
3/28/2017	Montana Telecom Association	Telecom	Katharine MacGregor
3/30/2017	Armstrong Oil & Gas	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/3/2017	U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Business Trade Group	Domenech, Jorjani, Cason, MacGregor, Benedetto
4/3/2017	Taylor Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/4/2017	Emera Inc.	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
4/4/2017	National Mining Association	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/4/2017	Domestic Energy Producers Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/5/2017	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Jorjani, Domenech, Cason, MacGregor, others
4/5/2017	Statoil/Equinor	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/6/2017	Texas Public Policy Foundation	Conservative Group	Katharine MacGregor
4/6/2017	Texas Public Policy Foundation	Conservative Group	Domenech, Cason, Jorjani, MacGregor
4/6/2017	Industrial Minerals Association – North America	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/6/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/6/2017	International Association of Geophysical Contractors	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/7/2017	Fieldwood Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/11/2017	Lucas Oil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/19/2017	Blackstone Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/19/2017	Taylor Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/24/2017	WilmerHale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
4/24/2017	LLOG Exploration Company	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/25/2017	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Zinke; MacGregor; Magallanes; Bloomgren
4/25/2017	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/26/2017	Public Lands Foundation	Conservation	Katharine MacGregor
4/26/2017	BP	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/26/2017	Newfield Exploration	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/27/2017	US Oil and Gas Assoc.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/27/2017	Alaska Native Corporations	Tribal/Gambling	Katharine MacGregor
4/28/2017	Wilmer Hale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
5/2/2017	Antofagasta PLC	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
5/3/2017	Pershing Gold Corp	Mining/Coal	Skipwith, Macgregor, Benedetto, others
5/3/2017	Women’s Mining Coalition	Mining/Coal	Skipwith, Macgregor, Benedetto, others
5/10/2017	California Independent Petroleum Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/11/2017	BK Strategies	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/16/2017	Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership	Hunting	Katharine MacGregor
5/16/2017	Bracy Tucker Brown	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
5/16/2017	Doyon Ltd	Tribal/Gambling	Katharine MacGregor
5/17/2017	PODS	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/18/2017	EQT Corporation	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/19/2017	Deep Gulf Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/23/2017	U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Business Trade Group	Katharine MacGregor
5/23/2017	National Mining Association	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
5/23/2017	Appalachian Pipeline Contractors	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/23/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/24/2017	Interstate Mining Compact Commission	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
5/24/2017	Newfield Exploration	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/25/2017	US Oil and Gas Assoc.	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Devito, Swift
5/26/2017	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/1/2017	Shell	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/4/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/6/2017	Chevron	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/6/2017	Repsol	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/7/2017	Owen Evans Ingols	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
6/7/2017	Watts Partners	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
6/7/2017	Arch Coal	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
6/7/2017	Shell	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/8/2017	National Ocean Industries Association	OIl/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/8/2017	Statoil/Equinor	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
6/9/2017	Wilmer Hale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
6/12/2017	North Slope Borough	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/15/2017	Jobs for Minnesotans	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
6/15/2017	American Wind Energy Assn	Renewables	MacGregor, Domenech, Cason, Benedetto, Hammond
6/15/2017	First Solar	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
6/19/2017	American Forest Resource Council	Forestry	Katharine MacGregor
6/20/2017	Noble Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/22/2017	Anadarko Petroleum Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/26/2017	Monument Policy Group	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
6/26/2017	Statoil/Equinor	Oil/gas	Angelle, Devito, MacGregor, Schindler
6/28/2017	Conservation Pathways	Conservation	Katharine MacGregor
6/29/2017	Gulf Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/29/2017	Independent Petroleum Association of America	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Magallanes.Devito,
7/2/2017	Bracy Tucker Brown	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
7/6/2017	Spectrum Geo Inc.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/10/2017	Horizon Ag	Agriculture/Water	Katharine MacGregor
7/10/2017	Ballard Partners	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
7/14/2017	National Ocean Policy Coalition	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/19/2017	American Chemistry Council; Solvay S.A.	Business Trade Group	Katharine MacGregor
7/19/2017	Select Energy Services	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/21/2017	American Stewards of Liberty	Conservative Group	Katharine MacGregor
7/24/2017	Recreational fishermen	Recreation	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2017	Antofagasta PLC	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2017	Interstate Mining Compact Commission	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2017	Alaska Gasline Development Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2017	Interstate Natural Gas Association of America	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/26/2017	Gulf Economic Survival Team	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/27/2017	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/27/2017	Montana Petroleum Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/3/2017	Heritage Foundation	Conservative Group	Bernhardt, Cason, Magallanes, Cameron
8/9/2017	Ducks Unlimited	Hunting	David Bernhardt
8/9/2017	Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters	Hunting	Katharine MacGregor
8/9/2017	Consumer Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/10/2017	Consumer Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/16/2017	Chevron	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/18/2017	Wilmer Hale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
8/21/2017	Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership	Hunting	Bernhardt, Willens
8/22/2017	OCS Governors Coalition	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/25/2017	American Exploration & Mining Assn.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/28/2017	Hilcorp Energy Company	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/5/2017	Repsol	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/6/2017	E2 Strategies	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
9/6/2017	Shell	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/8/2017	Nevada Mining Association	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
9/12/2017	National Alliance of Forest Owners	Forestry	Bernhardt, Willens
9/12/2017	Newmont Mining	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
9/12/2017	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/13/2017	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation	Hunting	Bernhardt, Willens
9/13/2017	Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation	Hunting	Katharine MacGregor
9/13/2017	Monsanto	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
9/13/2017	Jamison Group	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/14/2017	National Association of Manufacturers	Business Trade Group	Katharine MacGregor
9/14/2017	Ballard Partners	Lobbying/Law	Bernhardt, Willens
9/14/2017	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/14/2017	Chesapeake Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/14/2017	Cobalt Int. Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/14/2017	Denbury Resources	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/20/2017	Home Depot	Retail	David Bernhardt
9/22/2017	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
9/25/2017	Paul Hastings LLP	Lobbying/Law	David Bernhardt
9/26/2017	U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Business Trade Group	David Bernhardt
9/26/2017	ExxonMobil	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
10/4/2017	National Mining Association	Mining/Coal	David Bernhardt
10/4/2017	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/5/2017	Conservation groups	Conservation	Bernhardt, Willens, Travnicek
10/5/2017	US Oil and Gas Assoc.	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, Willens
10/6/2017	Recreation industry CEOs	Recreation	Bernhardt, Willens
10/11/2017	Independent Petroleum Association of America	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/12/2017	Skyboat Management	Tribal/Gambling	David Bernhardt
10/16/2017	National Park Foundation	Conservation	Bernhardt
10/18/2017	Wilmer Hale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
10/18/2017	Fieldwood Energy	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
10/18/2017	Dong Energy/Orsted	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
10/19/2017	Arena Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/20/2017	Jamison Group	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
10/20/2017	Farrell Cooper	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
10/23/2017	New Mexico Oil and Gas Assn.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/24/2017	Western Land Group	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
10/24/2017	IAGC	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/26/2017	Heritage Foundation	Conservative Group	Katharine MacGregor
10/26/2017	Fight For Mining Minnesota	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
10/27/2017	MMR Group	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
11/2/2017	Wilmer Hale	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
11/6/2017	National Mining Association	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
11/7/2017	NextEra Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
11/7/2017	Securing America’s Future Energy	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, Wynn, Funes, Larabee
11/8/2017	The Mosaic Company	Agriculture/Water	Bernhardt, MacGregor, Hammond
11/8/2017	Chevron	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
11/8/2017	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/8/2017	“Energy Company”	Unknown	Bernhardt, MacGregor
11/9/2017	PG&E Corp.	Electric/gas utility/transmission	David Bernhardt
11/9/2017	Heritage Foundation	Conservative Group	Bernhardt, Cason, Magallanes, Cameron, Wilens
11/9/2017	Arctic Slope Regional Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/14/2017	CEOS of independent oil and gas producers	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
11/16/2017	NextEra Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
11/17/2017	Grand Junction Petroleum and Mining Club	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/20/2017	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/21/2017	BK Strategies	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
11/21/2017	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/27/2017	Americans for Tax Reform	Conservative Group	David Bernhardt
11/28/2017	National Park Foundation	Conservation	Bernhardt, Willens
11/28/2017	E2 Strategies	Lobbying/Law	David Bernhardt
12/5/2017	Alvarez & Marsal Holdings LLC	Investing	Katharine MacGregor
12/5/2017	Ducks Unlimited	Hunting	Bernhardt, Cassidy, Skipwith, Magallanes, Heilemann
12/5/2017	Union Wireless	Telecom	Katharine MacGregor
12/6/2017	Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
12/6/2017	Offshore Operators Committee	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
12/18/2017	Pew Charitable Trusts	Conservation	Bernhardt, Hammond, Steed
12/18/2017	Consumer Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
12/18/2017	Equinor	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
12/19/2017	Ballard Partners	Lobbying/Law	David Bernhardt
12/19/2017	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
1/3/2018	Alaska Gasline Development Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
1/4/2018	National Marine Manufacturers Assn.	Fishing/Maritime	David Bernhardt
1/4/2018	American Wildlife Conservation Partners	Hunting	David Bernhardt
1/4/2018	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
1/9/2018	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
1/10/2018	American Wildlife Conservation Partners	Hunting	Bernhardt. Willens, Magallanes, Sheehan
1/10/2018	ConocoPhillips	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, MacGregor, Cason, others
1/12/2018	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
1/16/2018	RPSEA	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Wynn
1/16/2018	Environmental Defense Fund	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
1/17/2018	Van Ness Feldman	Lobbying/Law	David Bernhardt
1/19/2018	Sacramento River Settlement Contractors Cop.	Agriculture/Water	Bernhardt, Wilens, Jorjani
1/19/2018	Pebble Partnership	Mining/Coal	Bernhardt, Cason
1/25/2018	Westmoreland Coal	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
1/26/2018	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
1/28/2018	Ducks Unlimited	Hunting	David Bernhardt
1/30/2018	Continental Resources Inc.	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, Benedetto
1/31/2018	Kinross Gold	Mining/Coal	Bernhardt, MacGregor, Cason
1/31/2018	BP	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, Cason
1/31/2018	Barron Collier Companies	Real Estate/Construction	Bernhardt, Larrabee, Williens
2/4/2018	American Exploration & Production Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
2/12/2018	Sierra Valley Almonds	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt
2/13/2018	Statoil/Equinor	Oil/gas	Balash, MacGregor
2/15/2018	Oil & Gas Endangered Species Act Coalition	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
2/21/2018	American Forest and Paper Assn	Forestry	Bernhardt, Jorjani
2/27/2018	Westlands Water District	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt
2/27/2018	Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership	Hunting	David Bernhardt
2/27/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Davis, Devito, MacGregor
3/1/2018	Petroleum Association of Wyoming	Oil/gas	Bernhardt, Balash, Kaster
3/8/2018	Continental	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/8/2018	PerPetro Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/9/2018	Burning Man	Recreation	Katharine MacGregor
3/14/2018	38 North Solutions	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
3/15/2018	Kelley Drye & Warren LLP	Fishing/Maritime	Katharine MacGregor
3/15/2018	BK Strategies	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
3/15/2018	New Mexico Oil and Gas Assn.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/16/2018	New Mexico Cattle Growers Assn.	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt
3/19/2018	Gulf Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/20/2018	American Forest Resource Council	Forestry	David Bernhardt
3/20/2018	Alton Coal	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/22/2018	Alaska Gasline Development Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
3/22/2018	Statoil/Equinor	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
3/23/2018	Family Farm Alliance	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt
3/26/2018	The Mosaic Company	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
3/30/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/10/2018	Colorado Cattlemen’s Assn.	Agriculture/Water	Bernhardt, Willens
4/11/2018	Astro Technology	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/11/2018	BP	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/11/2018	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Angelle, Funes, MacGregor, Schindler, Wynn
4/11/2018	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/11/2018	Southern California Building Assn.	Real Estate/Construction	Bernhardt, Wilens, Combs
4/12/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/13/2018	National Ocean Industries Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/16/2018	American Exploration & Mining Assn.	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/17/2018	Ducks Unlimited	Hunting	David Bernhardt
4/17/2018	Nevada Iron	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/17/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/18/2018	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation	Hunting	Bernhardt, Cassidy, Sheehan
4/18/2018	National Mining Association	Mining/Coal	David Bernhardt
4/19/2018	African American Chamber of Commerce	Business Trade Group	Katharine MacGregor
4/19/2018	National Sheriffs Association	Law Enforcement	Katharine MacGregor
4/19/2018	FBB Federal Relations	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/19/2018	Fieldwood Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/24/2018	African American Chamber of Commerce	Business Trade Group	Katharine MacGregor
4/25/2018	Womens Mining Coalition	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/25/2018	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/26/2018	General Moly Mining	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
4/26/2018	Women in Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/27/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
4/30/2018	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/4/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/7/2018	Blank Rome	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
5/8/2018	AT&T	Telecom	Katharine MacGregor
5/9/2018	California Independent Petroleum Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/10/2018	EnVen Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/17/2018	Continental Resources	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
5/21/2018	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
5/22/2018	Competitive Enterprise Institute	Conservative Group	David Bernhardt
5/23/2018	Cimarex	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
5/23/2018	Cemex	Real Estate/Construction	David Bernhardt
5/23/2018	Solar Energy Industries Association	Renewables	David Bernhardt
5/30/2018	Arizona Mining Association	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
5/30/2018	Shell	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
6/3/2018	Dolbow Global Strategic Resources, LLC	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
6/5/2018	League of Conservation Voters	Conservation	Katharine MacGregor
6/6/2018	Womens Energy Resource Council Roundtable	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/7/2018	Washington Oil and Gas Forum	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/8/2018	International Association of Geophysical Contractors	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/8/2018	Lot Sixteen	Renewables	Katharine MacGregor
6/12/2018	Western Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/18/2018	The Mosaic Company	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
6/18/2018	Marubeni Oil and Gas	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/20/2018	Clean Air Task Force/National Wildlife Federation	Conservation	Katharine MacGregor
6/21/2018	Nature Conservancy	Conservation	Katharine MacGregor
6/21/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/22/2018	Shell	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/24/2018	Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
6/24/2018	Amplify Energy	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/26/2018	Wyoming Wildlife Federation/National Wildlife Federation	Hunting	Katharine MacGregor
6/26/2018	GasTech	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/27/2018	Arena Energy	Oil/gas	MacGregor, Balash
6/27/2018	Sonatrach	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/28/2018	Alpine Group	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/28/2018	BP	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
6/28/2018	International Association of Geophysical Contractors	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/7/2018	Domestic Energy Producers Alliance	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
7/10/2018	ConocoPhillips, Enbridge, Encana	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/11/2018	New Mexico Oil and Gas Assn.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/12/2018	SSR Mining	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
7/17/2018	Occidental Petroleum; Chevron	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/17/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/18/2018	Competitive Enterprise Institute	Conservative Group	David Bernhardt
7/24/2018	NextEra Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
7/24/2018	Desert Water Agency	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt
7/24/2018	Anadarko, EOG Resources	OIl/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/24/2018	National Ocean Industries Association, REACH	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2018	Mountain States Legal Foundation	Conservative Group	David Bernhardt
7/25/2018	GCC Energy	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
7/25/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
7/26/2018	Natural Resource Results	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
7/26/2018	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
7/30/2018	North Dakota Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/3/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/7/2018	NextEra Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
8/9/2018	Consumer Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/15/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/16/2018	Mid-American Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	David Bernhardt
8/16/2018	Continental Resources	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/16/2018	International Association of Geophysical Contractors (	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
8/17/2018	Multiple oil industry groups	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/5/2018	Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation	Hunting	David Bernhardt
9/5/2018	Houston Safari Club	Hunting	David Bernhardt
9/5/2018	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation	Hunting	David Bernhardt
9/5/2018	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation	Hunting	David Bernhardt
9/5/2018	American Petroleum Institute	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/5/2018	Cimarex	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/6/2018	Louisiana Oil and Gas Association	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/12/2018	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/24/2018	ExxonMobil, ASRC, National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
9/26/2018	BP	OIl/gas	David Bernhardt
9/26/2018	American Wind Energy Assn	Renewables	David Bernhardt
9/27/2018	Occidental Petroleum Corp.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/3/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/12/2018	S3 Group	Lobbying/Law	MacGregor, Cason, Combs
10/16/2018	Aker Solutions	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/18/2018	Squire Patton Boggs	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
10/18/2018	National Petroleum Council	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
10/22/2018	Duke Energy	Electric/gas utility/transmission	Katharine MacGregor
10/24/2018	National Coal Transportation Assn.	Mining/Coal	Katharine MacGregor
10/24/2018	Enbridge Inc.	Oil/gas	Katharine MacGregor
11/5/2018	Natural Resource Results	Lobbying/Law	Katharine MacGregor
11/6/2018	Western Energy Alliance	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
12/11/2018	Anschutz Corp.	Oil/gas	David Bernhardt
12/18/2018	International Wildlife Conservation Council	Hunting	David Bernhardt
2/13/2019	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation/U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance	Hunting	David Bernhardt
2/14/2019	Assn of Fish and Wildlife Agencies	Conservation	David Bernhardt
2/14/2019	Alton Coal	Mining/Coal	David Bernhardt
2/21/2019	National Fish and Wildlife Foundation	Hunting	David Bernhardt
2/27/2019	Outdoor Recreation Roundtable	Recreation	David Bernhardt
3/7/2019	Property and Environment Research Center	Conservative Group	David Bernhardt
3/12/2019	American Sheep Industry Assn.	Agriculture/Water	David Bernhardt