Trump Cabinet members actions and issues: on Energy & Oil

Rex Tillerson: Climate change real; with us now & forever more

It's rare for a current or former leader of one of the world's largest energy producers to testify under oath about climate change. "We knew, we knew it was a real issue," Tillerson said. "We knew it was a serious issue and we knew it was one that's going to be with us now, forever more, and it's not something that was just suddenly going to disappear off of our concern list because it is going to be with us for certainly well beyond my lifetime." Source: Erik Larson in Bloomberg News on Trump Cabinet Oct 31, 2019

Rex Tillerson: Carbon tax best way to transition from fossil fuels

When he was CEO, Tillerson said the company had sought to promote the idea of a carbon tax to help ease society off fossil fuels. "We had watched the European emission-trading system evolve and, in fact, we were a participant in it because of our operations there," Tillerson said. " We looked at what are other alternative mechanisms to influence people's choices. And we felt a carbon tax was the most simplistic. It is transparent. You can't game a carbon tax." Source: Erik Larson in Bloomberg News on Trump Cabinet Oct 31, 2019

Rex Tillerson: At Exxon, rose from production engineer to president

A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Secretary Tillerson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1975 as a production engineer. Secretary Tillerson rose through the ranks to become president of the corporation and a member of the board of directors in 2004, and served as ExxonMobil's chairman and chief executive officer from 2006 to 2016.

Secretary Tillerson is a former member of the American Petroleum Institute and the National Petroleum Council, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013. He formerly served as a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was also a member of the Business Roundtable and the Business Council, as well as an honorary trustee of the Business Council for International Understanding, and a member of the Emergency Committee for American Trade.

Source: State.gov official website for Trump Cabinet biographies Dec 31, 2018

Ryan Zinke: Increase coal, oil & gas mining access at National Monuments

In April 2017, Zinke began reviewing at least 27 national monuments to determine if any of the monuments could be reduced in size. These changes were welcomed by Republicans but condemned by Democrats and environmentalist groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club.

After The New York Times took Zinke's Interior Department to court, it won and got 25,000 documents, of which 4,500 pages were related to Zinke's multi-monument review, and which showed the administration set out to increase coal, oil and gas mining access. The documents also showed that the Zinke administration's new map pretty much matched that previously promoted by longtime Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, whose plan claimed it "would resolve all known mineral conflicts for SITLA [Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration] within the Bears Ears. The real [beneficiaries] are Utah schoolchildren and the people of San Juan County," a claim disputed as hypocritical by the Utah Din‚ Bik‚yah tribe.

Source: Wikipedia.com for Trump Cabinet biographies Dec 31, 2018

Ryan Zinke: Public lands opened for private company energy development

As the director of the National Park Service, at NPS we were hopeful [about] Ryan Zinke [when he was first appointed as Secretary of Interior], but we were soon disappointed, then appalled, as his doors were soon darkened by oil executives and climate deniers. Under Zinke, policies that planned for climate change's impacts on national parks were rescinded, and leasing of public lands for development was accelerated (despite a glut of oil). Millions of acres that were available for outdoor recreation will now be held by private companies for fossil fuel development. Many distinguished career public servants will be gone and many mid-level employees will be reconsidering their career choices. Regulations that protect our air, water and wildlife will be weakened and need rebuilding. And our options for addressing climate change will have been narrowed. Source: NPS Director in The Guardian on 2018 Trump Cabinet Dec 16, 2018

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