Koch Industries and Fracking Lobbyist Mike Catanzaro To Lead Trump Energy Team

Koch Industries and Fracking Lobbyist Mike Catanzaro To Lead Trump Energy Team
October 6, 2016
by Steve Horn

The Washington Post has reported that Mike Catanzaro, a former senior energy staffer for Republican Party House Majority Leader John Boehner with a track record of climate change denial, will lead Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump’s energy transition team.

Catanzaro now works as a partner at the lobbying firm CGCN, where his clients include Noble Energy, Koch Industries,EnCana Oil and Gas, Halliburton, Devon Energy and others. For those clients, he lobbies on issues such as pushing for more drilling on public lands on behalf of EnCana, against emissions regulations for drilling onshore and offshore wells on public lands for Hess Corporation and Devon, and for offshore drilling in Israel on behalf of Noble Energy.

Noble Energy Executive Vice President Chip Rimer, also a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, recently attended a private meeting between Colorado fracking industry executives and Trump in Denver, Colorado.

Beyond oil and gas issues, Catanzaro also lobbies against President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which calls for regulating carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. In a May speech, the climate change-denying Trump said he intends to “rescind all the job-destroying Obama executive actions including the Climate Action Plan” if elected president.

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