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Lawmakers Seek Ethics Probe Into Top Offshore Oil Regulator

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By Jimmy Tobias Verified, Hana Beach, Chris D'Angelo
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Matt Giacona is a young offshore oil industry operative who has risen fast in Trump’s Washington. Formerly a lobbyist for the powerful National Ocean Industries Association, he was selected earlier this year to serve as the acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a key Interior Department agency that oversees resource extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf.
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The Oil Industry Wrote a Wishlist. Trump’s Interior Department Is Delivering.

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By Hana Beach, Jimmy Tobias Verified
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The oil industry wants many things out of the Trump administration, and it has collected its top priorities in a wishlist of sorts. Titled “Enabling Energy Dominance: Federal Policy Levers,” the 9-page document contains a sampler platter of Big Oil’s major policy desires, from rolling back key Endangered Species Act regulations to ending Biden-era protections for migratory birds and keeping the federal corporate tax rate at 21%.
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Matt Giacona Lobbied For Offshore Oil Drillers. Now He Runs The Agency That Regulates Them.

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By Jimmy Tobias Verified, Hana Beach
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In March of this year, the Trump administration selected Matt Giacona for a top job at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an Interior Department agency responsible for overseeing offshore oil and gas drilling and energy extraction in the Gulf of Mexico and other American waters. It was a classic case of Washington D.C.’s revolving door, in which government officials go to work as industry lobbyists and industry lobbyists, in turn, land plum government appointments.
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