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National Energy Policy Report Released Reflecting Oil Industry Priorities

| Importance: 9/10

The Bush administration releases the National Energy Policy report developed by Cheney’s Energy Task Force, containing 105 recommendations that overwhelmingly favor fossil fuel industries while giving minimal attention to renewable energy. The report recommends opening the Arctic National …

George W. Bush Dick Cheney National Energy Policy Development Group ExxonMobil Shell Oil +6 more energy-policy corporate-capture oil-industry cheney-task-force regulatory-capture +3 more
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Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol

| Importance: 8/10

On March 13, 2001, President George W. Bush announced the United States would not implement the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, signaling the beginning of a systematic rollback of environmental protections coordinated with fossil fuel industry lobbyists. The decision came just weeks after Vice …

George W. Bush Christine Todd Whitman Dick Cheney American Petroleum Institute ExxonMobil +2 more environmental epa regulatory-capture climate-denial bush-administration +1 more
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Wise Use Movement Founded as Industry-Funded Anti-Environmental Grassroots Campaign

| Importance: 8/10

In August 1988, Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb convened the Multiple Use Strategy Conference in Reno, Nevada, launching the “Wise Use” movement. The conference brought together 250 representatives from timber, mining, ranching, and oil interests to coordinate an industry-funded campaign …

Ron Arnold Alan Gottlieb Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise American Petroleum Institute National Mining Association +2 more environmental astroturf corporate-lobbying public-lands regulatory-capture +1 more
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