Kathleen Sgamma

Kathleen M. Sgamma

Credentials

M.S., Information Systems, Virginia Tech (1993 – 1996).¹
B.S., Political Science/Defense and Arms Control Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984 – 1989).²

Background

Kathleen M. Sgamma is the president of the Western Energy Alliance (WEA), a group representing hundreds of oil and natural gas producers in the western United States that has historically lobbied against restrictions on the industry.³ President Donald Trump nominated Sgamma to head the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2025.⁴

WEA has historically lobbied against oil and gas industry restrictions, including environmental protections for the greater sage grouse.⁵ WEA has suggested, “Oil and natural gas provide a net benefit to the environment”⁶ and praised Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement during his first presidential term.⁷

Kathleen Sgamma & Project 2025

The footnotes to Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of the Interior revealed, as noted at DeSmog, that “Kathleen Sgamma, Dan Kish, and Katie Tubb wrote the section on energy in its entirety.”⁸

Project 2025, organized by⁹ the Heritage Foundation is a “plan to rapidly ‘reform’ the U.S. government by shuttering bureaus and offices, overturning regulations, and replacing thousands of public sector employees with hand-picked political allies of Trump,” DeSmog has reported. It also proposes a range of “radical anti-climate policies, including slashing restrictions on fossil fuel extraction, scrapping investment in renewable energy, and gutting the Environmental Protection Agency.”¹⁰

Stance on Climate Change

December 12, 2019

Kathleen Sgamma via Twitter:

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“Colorado #climatechange activists get caught spreading #FakeNews, but this leaves unchallenged an obviously made-up ‘statistic’ that 99.9% of scientists say we’re in a ‘climate emergency.’ Real scientists don’t engage in such loaded language.”

July 31, 2018

Kathleen Sgamma via Twitter:

Sgamma Tweet - Finally recognition that the "cures" for #ClimateChange could be worse for the world's poor than the symptoms — Source: Kathleen Sgamma on Twitter

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“Finally a recognition that the ‘cures’ for #ClimateChange could be worse for the world’s poor than the symptoms. Now we need a recognition that “green” energy policies are often worse for the environment than theoretical impacts in the distant future. https://nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0230-x…”

June 2, 2017

Sgamma wrote on the Western Energy Alliance‘s blog, praising President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement:¹¹

“Western Energy Alliance applauds President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. The unratified treaty conflicted with the administration’s plans to increase American development of the energy that actually powers the country […].”

“At a time like this, I like to remember how much more effective the oil and natural gas industry is at providing a real solution to climate change than any international treaty such as Paris or Kyoto; government policy like a carbon tax or cap-and-trade; or renewable subsidy.

“Our industry is responsible for 62% of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the electricity sector, compared to just 38% for wind, solar and other non-carbon generation, according to the Energy Information Administration.

“Our industry is the number one reason the United States leads the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

“That’s right. The United States provides actual leadership on climate change by reducing more greenhouse gases than any other developed country. Leadership is not worrying about upsetting other countries because we pull out of an agreement that would hamstring our economy and possibly (or not) avoid a mere 0.2 degrees C of warming by 2100.

“Climate alarmists and others looking to fundamentally reorient society don’t like to admit it, but the oil and natural gas industry has done more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than any government climate change policy, which is why our success is ignored by most of the media and mainstream environmental groups. The orthodoxy is about government control of the economy in the guise of the environment. We provide the exact opposite solution–the private sector operating in a free market, delivering an environmental and energy benefit at the lowest price.“

May 31, 2017

Sgamma via Twitter:

March 7, 2017

WEA President Kathleen Sgamma tweeted an article by Chris Horner for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, pushing for Trump to follow through on withdrawal from the Paris Climate Treaty:

Sgamma tweet-Trump Should Keep Promise, Withdraw from Paris Climate Treaty — Source: Kathleen Sgamma on Twitter

June 2015

Sgamma in The Salt Lake Tribune in response to Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment:¹²

“When it comes to energy use as it relates to global warming, the pope would help lift more people out of poverty while improving their health by working to rapidly provide the remaining 1.2 billion people who lack it with electricity from reliable, affordable fossil fuels. Access to fossil fuels would provide them with lifesaving medical services, mobility to better-paying jobs, electricity to study after the sun goes down, and countless other health benefits. Fossil fuels provide enormous social benefits that vastly outweigh their impact, and with clean-burning natural gas and today’s responsible oil and gas development come environmental benefits as well. Rationing access to reliable fossil fuels will continue to leave millions in poverty and condemned to early death now, while providing only theoretical health benefits decades into the future.”

January 30, 2013

WEA’s then-vice president of government and public affairs Katherine Sgamma appeared in an interview with E&E News where she suggested natural gas was the primary reason for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.:¹³

Monica Trauzzi: “We’re heard strong indicators from both the President and inside Congress that there will be a focus on addressing climate change over the next four years. How should the administrative square those goals with the goals that it has to expand federal exploration and development?”

Katherine Sgamma: “Well, I think if you look at natural gas in particular, the reason that the United States has significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions on path towards those Kyoto goals of 1990 emissions rates, and it’s because of natural gas, because we have switched over a considerable portion of our electricity generation from coal to natural gas. And so we’re the only industrialized country that has seen significant drop in greenhouse gases, and it’s because of natural gas. So it’s definitely easy to square those two together, because the more natural gas we produce domestically, we can export it overseas, we can use it here at home, and it’s clean burning, and it reduces greenhouse gas emissions.”

June 4, 2013

WEA’s Katherine Sgamma has advocated for a “free-market approach” to global warming policy. She wrote for the National Journal:¹⁴

“Which parts of the world are leading the way on energy production and global-warming policy? Clearly the United States. Through technological innovation and private-sector investment, the US is threatening the energy dominance of OPEC and Russia, with all the associated positive geo-political implications. Along with the increased production comes job and economic growth; the oil and natural gas industry is responsible for one out of every five new private-sector jobs and contributes $1.1 trillion to U.S. GDP annually.

“We’re also leading on global warming policy. Because of abundant natural gas, the United States has increased natural gas electricity generation which has enabled us to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to 1992 levels. No other industrialized countries have come close to meeting Kyoto-style GHG reductions targets, and we did it through thousands of market decisions, not top-down federal government fiat.

“That free-market approach has enabled the US to avoid the mistakes of Europe, where misguided “green” energy policies have caused more harm than good by saddling consumers and industry with high energy costs without delivering real environmental benefits. For example, Germany is actually increasing GHG emissions while, as Bjorn Lomborg reports, spending $110 billion for 37 hours of delay in global warming by the end of the century. Clearly that is a bad cost-benefit ratio that is harming German consumers and making its industry considerably less competitive.

“Luckily, America’s adversarial democracy enabled us to avoid making the same mistakes as Europe and other countries by avoiding signing onto the Kyoto treaty and adopting similar big government policies such as cap-and-trade. There are those on this blog who will lament that we’re falling behind other countries by not adopting more government imposed “investment” strategies in green energy. How many more Solyndras do we need before we convince everyone that that type of government policy is also misguided? There are plenty of examples overseas as well. Spain and Germany again come to mind, where taxpayer money has been wasted on non-sustainable subsidies to energy sources that can’t compete in the market, saddling consumers with high-priced energy and taxpayers with debt. We’re lucky that we have a strong democracy with a solid free-market tradition that has enabled us to avoid those same command-and-control policies that continue to fail. Other countries should follow.”

Key Quotes

February 2023

Kathleen Sgamma’s declaration on behalf of the Western Energy Alliance (WEA) in litigation opposing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment measures included the following statement”:¹⁵

“Oil and natural gas, like that produced by Alliance’s members, provide a net benefit to the environment. Countries with greater access to reliable, affordable energy not only have higher standards of living, but also cleaner environments and healthier populations. Increased use of electricity generated using natural gas can lead to lower levels of air pollution and offers a tangible solution for climate change. Fuel switching to natural gas in the electricity sector is the number one reason the United States has reduced greenhouse gas emissions more than any other country since 2005.”

February 7, 2025

Kathleen Sgamma wrote the following in an article at RealClear Energy about the International Energy Agency (IEA) titled “IEA Must Return to Its Roots and Face Reality on Net Zero“:¹⁶

“IEA’s strategy amounts to a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby governments announce grandiose climate change plans, IEA models these plans into its forecasts, and markets worldwide treat them as fact. Never mind that past predictions of a rapid energy transition have been wrong time and again. Despite cheerleading from IEA and trillions in subsidies from European countries and the Biden Administration, renewables only provide 12% of global energy. Financial institutions that long relied on IEA’s forecasts to guide investment decisions are now pulling back based on nothing more than a utopian vision detached from reality.

April 14, 2016

“When we increase natural gas production and then use it in the electricity generation, we deliver 59% more climate change benefit than wind and solar combined since 2006,” Sgamma claimed in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining.¹⁷

July 7, 2015

“By working together, we expand production and make the pie bigger for all. Conversely, red tape, like EPA’s recently enacted air quality requirements, diverts resources away from productive work and into regulatory compliance to prove what we were already doing to reduce emissions. That may increase opportunities for some in the short term, but in the long term the overall opportunities are reduced,” Sgamma wrote on the Western Energy Alliance‘s blog.¹⁸

March 2015

In response to a set of four bills, dubbed the “Frack Pack,” aimed at countering environmental harm that could be associated with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and shale gas exploration,¹⁹ Sgamma commented, according to CBS News:²⁰

“All of these bills are based on false information about supposed gaps in state and federal regulations that are actually talking points from the environmental lobby, and not based on reality.”

“All other states with oil and natural gas production have stringent rules and exemplary safety records that don’t require new, redundant federal regulations,” Sgamma said.

Key Actions

March 26, 2024

Sgamma was one of three authors who wrote the section on energy in Project 2025’s Department of Interior chapter.²¹

According to an author’s note: “All contributors to this chapter are listed at the front of this volume, but some deserve special mention. Kathleen Sgamma, Dan Kish, and Katie Tubb wrote the section on energy in its entirety.”²²

In the section titled “Restoring American Energy Dominance,” authors criticized President Biden’s actions to suspend oil, coal, and natural gas leasing on federal lands.²³

“DOI is abusing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)14 processes, the Antiquities Act,15 and bureaucratic procedures to advance a radical climate agenda, ostensibly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for which DOI has no statutory responsibility or authority,” they claimed in the section.²⁴

March 20, 2024

Sgamma testified at a Federal Lands Subcommittee Legislative Hearing, representing the Western Energy Alliance. In her testimony, she said, “We strongly support H.R. 5499, Rep. Miller-Meeks’ Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act.”²⁵

The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) suggested H.R. 5499 would “fundamentally undermine” the Antiquities Act of 1906, which it described as “one of our nation’s most important conservation laws” allowing the president of the United States to “proclaim lands or waters under federal jurisdiction as national monuments to maintain the integrity of natural and cultural resources.”²⁶

“Western Energy Alliance is concerned that the current president, who has repeatedly promised to
prevent federal oil and natural gas production, or future presidents would use unrestrained monument
designations to lock away large areas that contain oil and natural gas resources. We urge Congress to
pass H.R. 5499,” Sgamma added in her testimony.

Sgamma also testified that WEA strongly supported H.R. 7006 prohibiting Natural Asset Companies (NAC) from operating in Utah.

“Stock Exchange, H.R. 7006 is necessary because the concept is far from dead, as the administration moves forward with its Natural Capital Accounting strategy,” Sgamma said in her testimony.

According to a bill summary of the legislation sponsored by Rep. Curtis at the Congressional Research Service, “A natural asset company is a corporation with the primary purpose of actively managing, maintaining, restoring, and growing the value of natural assets and their production of ecosystem services.”²⁷

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) introduced a similar model policy with their “Natural Asset Company Prohibition Act.”²⁸

September 19, 2023

Sgamma testified at an oversight hearing held by the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources titled “Examining the Biden Administration’s Mismanagement of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Program.”²⁹

Source: House Committee on Natural Resources

March 9, 2021

The Guardian reported the Western Energy Alliance was behind a report Republicans, including Liz Cheney, were using to suggest Biden’s policies on oil and gas drilling would damage the economy. Records obtained by Documented and shared with Floodlight and Wyoming Public Media showed that WEA had proposed a $114,000 publicly funded study.³⁰

In February 2020, WEA sought to help fund the study—but could not. According to The Guardian, it did provide $8,000 in funding to help publicize the report.

“Now, the Western Energy Alliance is spending thousands more to amplify the warnings in an ad campaign against Biden’s climate policies,” The Guardian reported. “The numbers have been cited dozens of times in local and national newspapers, including in the New York Times in a reference to Wyoming officials’ projections.”

“The data has become core to Republican messaging opposing Biden’s climate plans even as critics suggest the study might exaggerate economic impacts by as much as 85%. The author even appeared at a meeting of the Congressional Western Caucus in February, alongside Cheney.”

WEA first approached the report’s author, Tim Considine, in mid-2019 to request a proposal about his research for state officials.³¹

“Just wanted to let you know that I’m working with the Governor’s office about who will commission and pay for the analysis, so I’m making progress,” Sgamma emailed Considine, according to the records. The Guardian noted, “month earlier, Considine had shared his proposal with Sgamma and then offered to amend it based on her preferences if it would ‘help your fund raising [sic]’.”

Sgamma later defended the study and lack of disclosure of WEA’s involvement.³²

“The bottom line is we didn’t fund it, and that’s usually where the disclosure comes in,” Sgamma said.

The $114,000 cost for the Wyoming study was publicly funded through the Wyoming Energy Authority and Wyoming State Energy Program. Former lawmaker Eli Bebout had proposed it. He is president of Nucor Oil and Gas and has received campaign contributions from the industry.

February 5, 2021

Sgamma appeared on the American Energy Alliance’s Unregulated podcast to discuss “the cost of Biden’s drilling moratorium and WEA’s legal efforts to stop Biden’s illegal executive actions.”³³

During the podcast, Sgamma commented on the Western Energy Alliance filing a lawsuit against President Biden’s actions to limit the oil and gas industry’s development of federal lands.³⁴

“I think our lawsuit was filed within the district court for Wyoming, within, I believe it was less than five minutes of the pen drying, the ink drying on that executive order,” Sgamma said.³⁵

Speaking of President Biden, she added, “He’s willing to sacrifice Western livelihoods and Western development so he can give something to the left and say he’s going after the oil and natural gas industry. So we knew this was coming. We’d been preparing for it.”³⁶

She later commented on what she described as the ultimate goal of the Biden administration:³⁷

“It’s eventually going to come to a ban or curtailment on not just leasing, but permitting as well,” she said.³⁸

“That is the ultimate goal. It’s the holy grail of the environmental movement. They want to study it to death, and then come up with a reason to say, oh, wait, federal onshore and offshore oil and natural gas is bad for the environment because it contributes to climate change. That’s the ultimate goal.”³⁹

July 2020

The New York Times reported that, shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, WEA’s Kathleen Sgamma reached out to the president’s transition team regarding requirements for methane release data.⁴⁰

“Looks like this will be easier than we thought,” David Kreutzer, an economist with the Heritage Foundation, who coordinated with the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote of canceling methane reporting requirements on February 10, 2017.⁴¹

Three weeks later, the EPA officially withdrew the reporting requirement.⁴²

The email was part of a collection of correspondence and interviews made public by a lawsuit 15 states brought against the EPA over the regulation of methane.⁴³

February 24, 2020

As reported by DeSmog, WEA purchased a full-page ad in the New York Times ahead of Super Tuesday, where it published an open letter to 2020 Democratic presidential candidates⁴⁴ According to WEA’s press release, it “responds to statements that have gone unchallenged by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren by explaining the environmental and life-sustaining benefits of oil and natural gas.”⁴⁵

“Contrary to the anti-oil and natural gas messages candidates are spreading to voters and the media on the campaign trail, the underlying statement from business leaders is that it ‘would be criminal not to produce oil and natural gas,'” WEA suggested in the press release.

“Sen. Sanders calls us criminal and Vice President Biden says he would put us in jail, but it would be criminal not to produce the life-sustaining energy that enables a healthy, safe and modern lifestyle,” said Sgamma.

“Without oil and natural gas, people can’t get to school and work, the lights go dark, smartphones cease to exist, medicine cabinets and grocery store shelves go bare. We know that people don’t understand how oil and natural gas enables just about every product and service they use every day, but just because we’re taken for granted doesn’t mean we should be vilified. If the political rhetoric we’re hearing this primary season actually became reality, the voters would abandon these politicians in droves.”

“From banning fracking to eliminating leasing on federal lands, the agenda of these candidates would not only kill millions of jobs in the United States, but do nothing to reduce our reliance on reliable, life-sustaining energy. Preventing American production would not change energy needs but would simply shift production to unreliable countries like Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. How is it considered politically viable to promise to do away with American energy? We challenge candidates to recognize, as Presidents Trump, Obama, Bush, and Clinton have, that oil and natural gas produced in an environmentally responsible way here in America are a source for good in the world,” Sgamma concluded.

An image of the ad is below, via an Internet Archive capture of the WEA’s press release.

February 2020

The Guardian reported on public records obtained by Documented and shared with Floodlight and Wyoming Public Media that The Western Energy Alliance had proposed a $114,000 publicly funded analysis to state officials and tried to provide matching funding for the study and stay involved during its development.⁴⁶

“The Western Energy Alliance sought to help fund the study but was unable because the industry was in serious decline. It did, however, spend $8,000 publicizing the report, as was first reported by Politico,” The Guardian reported, adding, “Records show Governor Mark Gordon’s office was aware of and never disclosed the group’s deep involvement in the study.”⁴⁷

According to The Guardian‘s analysis, the Western Energy Alliance continued to spend thousands of dollars to amplify the study’s findings in ad campaigns to oppose Biden’s climate policies, and the data has “become core to Republican messaging opposing Biden’s climate plans even as critics suggest the study might exaggerate economic impacts by as much as 85%.”⁴⁸

The Guardian summarized how the Western Energy Alliance approached Tim Considine, an economics professor at the University of Wyoming, in mid-2019, asking him to write a proposal about his research for state officials:⁴⁹

“Internal emails show the Western Energy Alliance president, Kathleen Sgamma, pitched the analysis to the governor’s office in February 2020.

‘Just wanted to let you know that I’m working with the Governor’s office about who will commission and pay for the analysis, so I’m making progress,’ Sgamma emailed Considine.

“A month earlier, Considine had shared his proposal with Sgamma and then offered to amend it based on her preferences if it would ‘help your fund raising [sic]’.”⁵⁰

September 24, 2019

WEA President Kathleen Sgamma testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, in a hearing titled “Fossil Fuel Development: Protecting Taxpayers and Eliminating Individual Giveaways.”⁵¹

“Because the consumption of our products indeed does generate greenhouse gases, we’re vilified, yet our products provide overwhelming benefits that outweigh the impact,” Sgamma’s testimony reads. She also criticized proposed legislation to limit industry on federal lands as “duplicative regulatory red tape.”⁵²

“Why would Congress want to give BLM redundant powers to regulate air quality that is already granted to EPA and the states through the Clean Air Act?” She asked. “EPA rules are applicable on public lands, of course, so why the inefficient duplication? The answer can only be that the bill is following the example of the Obama Administration in doing an end-run around the Clean Air Act and its processes for regulating existing sources properly.”

She also criticized a bonding bill that would address the cleanup of orphan wells by the oil industry, claiming that “If bond levels are raised too high, as they are in the bill, it ties up significant amounts of capital in an unproductive capacity, adding another cost that, in combination with all the other costs of operating on federal lands, leads to less production.”

On a bill regarding royalties, she claimed: “Raising royalty rates on federal lands will make them even less competitive with adjacent non-federal lands because the federal government, through acts of Congress and Executive Branch policies, has already determined that it would rather extract more in regulatory costs than it can garner in direct royalty revenue.”

September 14, 2017

As DeSmog reported, emails and documents obtained by the Western Values Project through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) showed that during the first year of the Trump administration, “the U.S. Department of Interior has coordinated closely with the oil and gas industry to accomplish its priorities on the nation’s expansive federal lands.”⁵³

DeSmog reported how “In comments submitted to the Interior Department on August 10 and then emailed to high-ranking Interior Department officials, the Western Energy Alliance called for the agency to transfer control of oil and gas production on federal public lands to the states, citing an Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) model resolution on public lands passed in 2017.”⁵⁴

In a September 14, 2017 email, Kathleen Sgamma thanked Vincent DeVito — Counselor to the Secretary for Energy Policy in the Department of Interior in the Trump administration — for meeting with her. She said she would “work up a comprehensive briefing paper on the federal nexus and delegation of primacy ideas that we discussed and get that to you as soon as they’re ready.”⁵⁵

October 2, 2017

According to communications released in a FOIA from the Center for Western Priorities, Sgamma submitted comments on behalf of the Western Energy Alliance as part of the Regulatory Reform Initiative, Docket No. DOI-2017-0003-00011, to DOI.⁵⁶

One of WEA’s submitted recommendations was that “BLM should quickly dismiss protests that only address vague, general issues that do not pertain to the individual parcels.”.⁵⁷

They add, “Since groups such as WildEarth Guardians repeatedly protest virtually every lease sale using the same boilerplate arguments, BLM should develop standard language to respond in kind, rather than spending months issuing a detailed response.”.⁵⁸

“We are happy to provide that standard language to help BLM develop templates,” they suggested.⁵⁹

August 11, 2016

WEA filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of New Mexico, asking for the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to be compelled to lease federal lands for oil and gas exploration. In a blog post on the action, WEA blamed the “Keep-It-in-the-Ground movement” for the slowing of leasing.⁶⁰

“The Keep-It-in-the-Ground movement is yelling and screaming to coerce BLM into violating the law so that this bureaucratic chokehold becomes a full policy stop. They’ve seen how the Obama Administration is willing to use its pen and phone to rule by fiat and impose policy that flouts Congressional mandate. The time is now for industry to stand up and demand that BLM and the Interior Department follow existing law passed by the representatives of the People.

For that reason, Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit today challenging the failure to hold quarterly lease sales to try to compel BLM to do what’s already required by law,” WEA wrote in its blog.⁶¹

View court documents here.

2016

Sgamma spoke at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)‘s 2016 meeting in Denver, Colorado, where, DeSmog reported, she compared environmental groups’ Keep It In The Ground campaign actions at U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) bids to a “circus.”⁶² DeSmog recorded the presentation and published it online.

Sgamma also suggested WEA was organizing a campaign to oppose Keep It In The Ground:

“So Western Energy Alliance is planning some counter-efforts with Keep It In The Ground which we’ll be announcing probably later this month,” Sgamma said.

“We’ve also been working with BLM and Congress to say ‘Let’s just get rid of this circus, let’s just have online auctions. eBay is out there, it can be done.’ So BLM has also expressed concern for its employees as well. In fact, BLM Director [Neil] Kornze, in a hearing a couple months ago, was asked about all of these protests and even equated these protests with the militia who shut down and occupied the Malheur Wildlife Reserve in Oregon. So BLM is likewise concerned about the safety of its employees and it put in place security measures at last week’s auction. But, what we’re saying and what a lot of people are saying is, ‘Let’s just get rid of the circus. Let’s do online auctions.’ So hopefully BLM is compelled even more after Thursday to move in that direction.”

DeSmog noted WEA’s push for online auctions began as early as February, when it published a letter to BLM director Neil Kornze.⁶³

“Might we suggest as an alternative that BLM take advantage of online auctions,” wrote Sgamma in the February 11 letter. “If protesters continue to disrupt lease sales, we strongly suggest BLM simply hold online auctions within the same quarter as the original sales. Online auctions also have added cost-savings benefits as venues and security personnel do not have to be enlisted to handle potentially unruly crowds.”

October 27, 2016

DeSmog reported that Sgamma was a panelist at the Permian Basin Petroleum Association (PBPA)’s annual meeting, where she commented:⁶⁴

“Litigation needs to be a major tool in our tool box [sic],” Sgamma said. “The PBPA and Western Energy Alliance are taking the lead in using litigation aggressively and successfully.”

At the PBPA conference, the talk of litigation extended past endangered species and into other federal laws that could impact the oil industry:⁶⁵

“Western Energy Alliance and Independent Petroleum Association of America together sued and stopped federal regulation of fracking. We did that by suing, along with the states and some Indian tribes, and we were able to get an Obama appointee to agree with us that that was federal overreach, the federal government does not have the ability to regulate fracking,” Ms. Sgamma said.

“We’re going to be doing the same thing with the venting and flaring rule. Following the same plan. We will be ready to litigate on that immediately. We have some states lined up, we’re working on some others.”⁶⁶

April 14, 2016

Sgamma testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining to discuss the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule, entitled “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resources Conservation.”⁶⁷

“The Administration has focused an overwhelming number of new regulations on the oil and natural gas industry that cumulatively extend far beyond reasonable regulatory oversight, and into mechanisms for controlling and slowing production in America,” Sgamma claimed in her testimony.

She added, “Over the last year, Western Energy Alliance has responded to 48 regulatory processes involving 49,226 pages of regulatory documents. . . . I can assure you that that’s hard to keep up with that regulatory stack and still continue to provide affordable energy for America.”

According to Sgamma, “When we increase natural gas production and then use it in the electricity generation, we deliver 59% more climate change benefit than wind and solar combined since 2006.”

She added, “Federal regulations, invariably, like this rule before us, invariably result in more red tape, more expense, less efficiency, and result in less natural gas that we than would be otherwise produced, and less overall climate change impact. I’m no philosopher, but that just doesn’t make sense.”

August 4, 2015

Sgamma testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight. The hearing was titled “Oversight of Litigation at the EPA and FWS: Impacts on the U.S. Economy, States, Local Communities and the Environment.” Cato Institute adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman also testified.⁶⁸

During the hearing, Sgamma claimed the oil and gas industry [00:35:43] “have been one of the main reasons why the United States has reduced greenhouse gas emissions.” She added, [00:36:16] “But rather than recognizing that environmental benefit, this administration has doubled down on costly command and control regulation without commensurate environmental benefit.”

September 2013

According to documents uploaded by the FOIA Project, while working as the vice president of government and public affairs at the Western Energy Alliance, Sgamma initiated a Freedom of Information Act Request to the U.S. Geological Survey pursuing details on “The names and institutions of employment and/or affiliations” of peer reviewers for a report entitled “Summary of Science, Activities, Programs, and Policies That Influence the Rangewide Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse.”⁶⁹

Sgamma sent a subsequent appeal after documents weren’t disclosed, suggesting, “The release of this information is critical for the Alliance and its members as it will help them ascertain the legal and scientific sufficiency of key studies related to greater sage grouse conservation measures.”⁷⁰

Affiliations

Western Energy Alliance (WEA) — President (since March 2006).⁷¹
Bankers Life & Casualty — Senior data warehouse developer (March 2003 to Nov 2005).⁷²
Sagent (UK) Ltd. — Director of consulting.⁷³
Talus Inc. — Data warehouse consultant (1996 to 1998).⁷⁴
Ogden Government Services — Consultant (1993 to 1998).⁷⁵
US Army — Military intelligence officer (August 1989 to September 1991).⁷⁶

Kathleen Sgamma on LinkedIn
@KathleenSgamma on Twitter/X

Publications

Sample articles below:

“IEA Must Return to Its Roots and Face Reality on Net Zero,” RealClear Energy, February 7, 2025.

Other Resources

^{Profile image screenshot from Full Committee Hearing On The Department Of The Interior’s Onshore Oil And Gas Leasing Program via Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources (April 27, 2021)}

Resources

1
“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Eric Lipton and Hiroko Tabuchi. ”Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands,” The New York Times, October 27, 2018. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZuXWa
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Scott Streater and Mike Soraghan. “Trump names oil and gas advocate as next BLM director,” E&E News, February 12, 2025. Archived March 1, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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Eric Lipton and Hiroko Tabuchi. ”Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands,” The New York Times, October 27, 2018. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZuXWa
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“Regulatory,” Western Energy Alliance. Archived December 19, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/tnOQY
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Kathleen Sgamma. “Good News from Paris,” Western Energy Alliance, June 2, 2017. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/tGIG7
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Joe Fassler and Sharon Kelly. “Climate Deniers Waiting in the Wings as Trump Reclaims Presidency,” DeSmog, November 8, 2024.
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Spencer Chretien. “Project 2025,” The Heritage Foundation. Archived October 7, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pQWhc
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Sam Bright. “Trump Will ‘Kill’ Climate Budgets, Key Ally Tells Heritage Event,” DeSmog, October 7, 2024.
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Kathleen Sgamma. “Good News from Paris,” Western Energy Alliance, June 2, 2017. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/tGIG7
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“Utahns react to Pope Francis’ call to combat climate change,” The Salt Lake Tribune, June 19, 2015. Archived October 13, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cdgfD
13
“Western Energy Alliance’s Sgamma discusses future of Interior’s fracking rule,” E&E News, January 30, 2013. Archived August 19, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Hcx3y
14
Kathleen Sgamma. “American IS Leading the Way,” National Journal, June 4, 2013. Archived June 15, 2013. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/mKLez
15
“Declarations filed by Kathleen Sgamma and others in Utah v. Walsh anti-ESG lawsuit,” Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Contributed by Dave Anderson (Energy and Policy Institute).
16
Kathleen Sgamma. “IEA Must Return to Its Roots and Face Reality on Net Zero,” RealClear Energy, February 7, 2025. Archived February 9, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/i7ja4
17
“Subcommittee hearing to receive testimony on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule, entitled ‘Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,'” Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, April 14, 2016. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
18
Kathleen Sgamma. “Using the Regulatory Process for Monetary Gain,” Western Energy Alliance, July 7, 2015. Archived September 18, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LVije
19
Sharon Kelly. “‘Frack Pack’ Bills Introduced, Aim to Rein in Environmental Damage From Fracking Industry,” DeSmog, March 20, 2015.
20
Mead Gruver. “Democrats Reintroduce ‘Frack Pack’ Oil And Gas Regulations,” CBS News, March 19, 2015. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: http://archive.today/x132k
21
“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
25
“Kathleen Sgamma President, Western Energy Alliance Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5015, H.R. 5499, H.R. 6085, H.R. 6209, H.R. 6547 and H.R. 7006″ (PDF), March 20, 2024. Retrieved from naturalresources.house.gov. Archived February 11, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
26
“NPCA position on H.R. 5499 – Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act,” National Parks Conservation Association, March 19, 2024. Archived January 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/aKXLY
27
“H.R.7006 – To prohibit natural asset companies from entering into any agreement with respect to land in the State of Utah or natural assets on or in such land,” Congress.gov. Archived February 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TbCi3
28
“Natural Asset Company Prohibition Act,” ALEC, July 25, 2024. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/hDNT5
29
“Examining the Biden Administration’s Mismanagement of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Program | Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources,” House Committee on Natural Resources, September 19, 2023. Archived February 26, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
30
Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
31
Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
32
Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
33
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
34
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
35
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
36
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
37
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
38
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
39
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
40
Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
41
Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
42
Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
43
Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
44
Dana Drugmand. “Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be ‘Criminal’,” DeSmog, March 6, 2020.
45
(Press Release). “Execs’ Open Letter to 2020 Candidates Promotes Oil & Natural Gas,” Western Energy Alliance, February 24, 2020. Archived April 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/0VPxz
46
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
47
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
48
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
49
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
50
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
51
“Testimony Before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources” (PDF), House Committee on Natural Resources, September 24, 2019. Archived August 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
52
“Testimony Before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources” (PDF), House Committee on Natural Resources, September 24, 2019. Archived August 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
53
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
54
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
55
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
56
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
57
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed byJesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
58
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
59
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
60
Kathleen Sgamma. “Who Needs Keep-It-in-the-Ground? BLM’s Already Doing So,” Western Energy Alliance, August 11, 2016. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/sbVeQ
61
Kathleen Sgamma. “Who Needs Keep-It-in-the-Ground? BLM’s Already Doing So,” Western Energy Alliance, August 11, 2016. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/sbVeQ
62
Steve Horn. “‘End the Circus’: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting,” DeSmog, May 17, 2016.
63
“RE: Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale Cancelations” (PDF), Western Energy Alliance, February 11, 2016. Archived November 19, 2019. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
64
Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
65
Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
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Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
67
“Subcommittee hearing to receive testimony on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule, entitled ‘Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,'” Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, April 14, 2016. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
68
“Oversight of Litigation at EPA and FWS: Impacts on the U.S. Economy, States, Local Communities and the Environment,” U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, August 4, 2015. Archived February 26, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“CO 1:2014cv01282 complaint attachment 17,” Contributed by The FOIA Project (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“CO 1:2014cv01282 complaint attachment 17,” Contributed by The FOIA Project (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
3
Eric Lipton and Hiroko Tabuchi. ”Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands,” The New York Times, October 27, 2018. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZuXWa
4
Scott Streater and Mike Soraghan. “Trump names oil and gas advocate as next BLM director,” E&E News, February 12, 2025. Archived March 1, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
5
Eric Lipton and Hiroko Tabuchi. ”Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands,” The New York Times, October 27, 2018. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/ZuXWa
6
“Regulatory,” Western Energy Alliance. Archived December 19, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/tnOQY
7
Kathleen Sgamma. “Good News from Paris,” Western Energy Alliance, June 2, 2017. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/tGIG7
8
Joe Fassler and Sharon Kelly. “Climate Deniers Waiting in the Wings as Trump Reclaims Presidency,” DeSmog, November 8, 2024.
9
Spencer Chretien. “Project 2025,” The Heritage Foundation. Archived October 7, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/pQWhc
10
Sam Bright. “Trump Will ‘Kill’ Climate Budgets, Key Ally Tells Heritage Event,” DeSmog, October 7, 2024.
11
Kathleen Sgamma. “Good News from Paris,” Western Energy Alliance, June 2, 2017. Archived September 1, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/tGIG7
12
“Utahns react to Pope Francis’ call to combat climate change,” The Salt Lake Tribune, June 19, 2015. Archived October 13, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cdgfD
13
“Western Energy Alliance’s Sgamma discusses future of Interior’s fracking rule,” E&E News, January 30, 2013. Archived August 19, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/Hcx3y
14
Kathleen Sgamma. “American IS Leading the Way,” National Journal, June 4, 2013. Archived June 15, 2013. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/mKLez
15
“Declarations filed by Kathleen Sgamma and others in Utah v. Walsh anti-ESG lawsuit,” Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Contributed by Dave Anderson (Energy and Policy Institute).
16
Kathleen Sgamma. “IEA Must Return to Its Roots and Face Reality on Net Zero,” RealClear Energy, February 7, 2025. Archived February 9, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/i7ja4
17
“Subcommittee hearing to receive testimony on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule, entitled ‘Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,'” Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, April 14, 2016. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
18
Kathleen Sgamma. “Using the Regulatory Process for Monetary Gain,” Western Energy Alliance, July 7, 2015. Archived September 18, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/LVije
19
Sharon Kelly. “‘Frack Pack’ Bills Introduced, Aim to Rein in Environmental Damage From Fracking Industry,” DeSmog, March 20, 2015.
20
Mead Gruver. “Democrats Reintroduce ‘Frack Pack’ Oil And Gas Regulations,” CBS News, March 19, 2015. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: http://archive.today/x132k
21
“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
22
“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
24
“DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR” (PDF), Project 2025, March 26, 2024 (document creation date). Archived February 27, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
25
“Kathleen Sgamma President, Western Energy Alliance Testimony Before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Federal Lands Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5015, H.R. 5499, H.R. 6085, H.R. 6209, H.R. 6547 and H.R. 7006″ (PDF), March 20, 2024. Retrieved from naturalresources.house.gov. Archived February 11, 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
26
“NPCA position on H.R. 5499 – Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act,” National Parks Conservation Association, March 19, 2024. Archived January 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/aKXLY
27
“H.R.7006 – To prohibit natural asset companies from entering into any agreement with respect to land in the State of Utah or natural assets on or in such land,” Congress.gov. Archived February 24, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/TbCi3
28
“Natural Asset Company Prohibition Act,” ALEC, July 25, 2024. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/hDNT5
29
“Examining the Biden Administration’s Mismanagement of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Program | Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources,” House Committee on Natural Resources, September 19, 2023. Archived February 26, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
30
Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
31
Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
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Emily Holden. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived March 9, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/QEYFC
33
“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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“22 Tom and Mike Discuss The Cost of Biden’s Ban With Kathleen Sgamma,” American Energy Alliance, February 5, 2021. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog.
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Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
41
Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
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Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
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Lisa Friedman. “New Emails Show How Energy Industry Moved Fast to Undo Curbs,” The New York Times, July 21, 2020. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/AmgXX
44
Dana Drugmand. “Oil Execs, Anxious About Public Support, Claim Halting Fossil Fuel Production Would Be ‘Criminal’,” DeSmog, March 6, 2020.
45
(Press Release). “Execs’ Open Letter to 2020 Candidates Promotes Oil & Natural Gas,” Western Energy Alliance, February 24, 2020. Archived April 4, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/0VPxz
46
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
47
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
48
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
49
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
50
Emily Holden and Cooper McKim. “Republicans’ new favorite study trashes Biden’s climate plans – but who’s behind it?” The Guardian, March 9, 2021. Archived February 13, 2025. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/RSHsN
51
“Testimony Before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources” (PDF), House Committee on Natural Resources, September 24, 2019. Archived August 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
52
“Testimony Before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources” (PDF), House Committee on Natural Resources, September 24, 2019. Archived August 7, 2020. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
53
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
54
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
55
Steve Horn. “Emails Reveal Trump Admin Mulling Big Oil Plan to Transfer Public Land to States,” DeSmog, February 28, 2018.
56
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed byJesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
58
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
59
“Center for Western Priorities DOI FOIA docs: Documents from Center for Western Priorities FOIA,” Contributed by Jesse Coleman (Documented). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
60
Kathleen Sgamma. “Who Needs Keep-It-in-the-Ground? BLM’s Already Doing So,” Western Energy Alliance, August 11, 2016. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/sbVeQ
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Kathleen Sgamma. “Who Needs Keep-It-in-the-Ground? BLM’s Already Doing So,” Western Energy Alliance, August 11, 2016. Archived August 5, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/sbVeQ
62
Steve Horn. “‘End the Circus’: Big Oil Group Plots to Exclude Public from Public Lands Bidding at IOGCC Meeting,” DeSmog, May 17, 2016.
63
“RE: Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale Cancelations” (PDF), Western Energy Alliance, February 11, 2016. Archived November 19, 2019. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
64
Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
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Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
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Sharon Kelly. “Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry,” DeSmog, November 21, 2016.
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“Subcommittee hearing to receive testimony on the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule, entitled ‘Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,'” Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources, April 14, 2016. Archived February 25, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
68
“Oversight of Litigation at EPA and FWS: Impacts on the U.S. Economy, States, Local Communities and the Environment,” U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, August 4, 2015. Archived February 26, 2025. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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“CO 1:2014cv01282 complaint attachment 17,” Contributed by The FOIA Project (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“CO 1:2014cv01282 complaint attachment 17,” Contributed by The FOIA Project (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse). Retrieved from DocumentCloud. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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“Kathleen Sgamma,” LinkedIn. Accessed February 2025. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

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