The Biden administration gave oil industry lobbyists and representatives a regular audience in 2021 to discuss a key regulatory change that works in the interest of major oil companies, while hammering the industry’s major players as profiteers harming the environment, according to emails obtained by the Functional Government Initiative (FGI).
“These records paint a picture of the Biden administration saying one thing publicly while appearing to do another behind closed doors. Ironically, in this instance it seems that coziness between senior political appointees at Interior and representatives of Big Oil may be the driver of BOEM’s latest rule on offshore bonding,” Pete McGinnis, spokesman for FGI, told the Daily Caller News Foundation of his organization’s findings.