“President Donald Trump has spent the last nine months halting the growth of the American clean energy economy in its tracks, dragging the country into a vengeful, backward-leaning energy agenda that does the bidding of his fossil fuel allies and serves the interest of billionaire campaign donors. Consumers and the planet alike will suffer for it. Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project analyzed the backgrounds of 111 executive branch nominees and appointees charged with the nation’s energy and environmental policymaking. The analysis found that President Trump has installed fossil fuel insiders and renewable energy opponents across nine agencies that implicate energy and environmental policy. These agencies have made dozens of hires from the fossil fuel sector, mining conglomerates, and other polluting industries, as well as others who are well-paid to support a dirty energy agenda, such as corporate lawyers and the staffers from far-right think tanks directly tied to Trump’s dirty energy agenda. As part of our compilation, we also included Republican politicians and political operatives who have attached themselves to MAGA’s dirty energy agenda. That includes:
- 43 former fossil fuel industry employees
- 29 former corporate executives
- 14 former corporate lawyers
- 12 people tied to fossil fuel-funded right-wing think tanks
- 7 people tied primarily to Republican politics such as elected officials and staffers pushing fossil fuel interests
- 6 from utility companies or the nuclear energy industry
