Fred Palmer
Fred Palmer Credentials Background Fredrick D. Palmer was the senior vice president of government relations for Peabody Energy Corporation from 2001 to June 2015, also serving on the Executive Leadership Team until 2014. Most recently he worked as Peabody’s Special Advisor to the Office of Peabody’s Executive Chairman before joining the public relations firm Total […]
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt Credentials Background E. Scott Pruitt served as the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump Administration until resigning in July 2018 following a series of ethics scandals. Pruitt formerly served as the Oklahoma Attorney General, a position he held since November, 2010.1“About the Attorney General,” Oklahoma Office of the […]
Roger Pielke Jr.
Roger Pielke Jr. Credentials Background Roger Pielke Jr. is a climate science policy writer working at the University of Colorado Boulder. Pielke Jr.’s academic degrees are in mathematics, public policy, and political science. According to his bibliographic notes, he started studying extreme weather and climate in 1991 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. He discusses his […]
Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Marlo Lewis, Jr. Credentials Background Marlo Lewis is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a group that has received funding from a range of energy industry groups and conservative foundations such as the Koch family foundations, ExxonMobil, Texaco, Arch Coal, and the American Petroleum Institute (API) among others.1“Competitive Enterprise Institute,” Conservative Transparency. […]
David Rose
David Rose Credentials Background David Rose is a British author and journalist who has published a wide range of articles challenging man-made climate change, frequently citing material and reports from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) and global warming skeptics such as Judith Curry, and Benny Peiser, of the GWPF. Rose has repeatedly suggested the […]
Citizens for the Republic
Citizens for the Republic (CFTR) Background Citizens for the Republic (CFTR) is a political action committee founded by Ronald Reagan in 1977 to “attract conservative support.” 2The New York Times reported in 1985 […]
Rex Tillerson
Rex W. Tillerson Credentials Background Rex W. Tillerson served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil from 2006-2016. Tillerson announced his retirement on December 14, 2016, after his nomination for the position of U.S. Secretary of State by President-elect Donald Trump. Exxon Mobil Corp said that Darren Woods would replace Rex Tillerson as […]
Roger A. Pielke Sr.
Roger A. Pielke Sr. Credentials Background Roger A. Pielke Sr. is a Senior Research Scientist, heading the the Pielke research group at CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC). He is also an Emeritus Professor […]
Rudy Giuliani
Image by Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. Rudolph W. Giuliani Credentials Background Rudolph (Rudy) Giuliani served as the Mayor of New York City for two terms, from 1994 through 2001, and was a 2008 Republican presidential candidate. He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Giuliani Partners LLC, which he […]
Hubbel Relat
Hubbel Relat Credentials Background Hubbel Relat is the former vice president for state policy and general counsel for American Energy Alliance. He worked as director of external relations for the pro-fossil fuel group Fueling US Forward before joining the US Department of Interior as special assistant to the solicitor in July 2018. As of January […]
