Trump's pick for the No. 2 spot at Interior, Kate MacGregor, has her confirmation hearing this morning. Records from our team reveal she *concealed information* regarding oil & gas magnate Harold Hamm and other influential fossil fuel execs. fieldnotes.co/reporting/th... - ThreadSky

fieldnotes.co • 6 days ago

Trump's pick for the No. 2 spot at Interior, Kate MacGregor, has her confirmation hearing this morning. Records from our team reveal she *concealed information* regarding oil & gas magnate Harold Hamm and other influential fossil fuel execs. https://fieldnotes.co/reporting/the-oil-industrys-inside-woman-hid-public-records-at-trumps-interior

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fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

Rising quickly through the ranks in Trump's first term, MacGregor was known to be the go-to for all of the oil & gas industry's needs. In a 2017 closed-door meeting, execs said they knew her “very well” and if there were problems, “We’ll call Kate.” https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/23/trump-big-oil-industry-influence-investigation-zinke-226106

fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) also recommended MacGregor to the Trump transition team in November 2024 for the top job at Interior because she has proved herself, “very effective at bending the bureaucracy to the administration’s will.” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25511348-utah-governors-office-trump-transition-team-comms-nov-1-dec-24-2024/#document/p12/a2622053

fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

As former Hill staff, MacGregor was particularly effective with, shall we say, the *art* of concealing meeting records with oil companies during the first Trump admin. An analysis of her calendar shows she met with fossil fuel interests 12x more than non. https://www.citizen.org/article/corporate-calendars/

fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

MacGregor’s meeting records like notes, briefings and other materials were often stored in Google Docs that were never preserved as federal records, making them unrecoverable by public records officials and therefore preventing the public from ever seeing them.

fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

In 2017, MacGregor met with Harold Hamm to discuss the BLM’s venting and flaring rule. Hamm, a major political and financial backer of Trump and chairman of Continental Resources, has fracking interests on public lands and was burning a huge amount of gas… the exact problem targeted by the BLM rule.

fieldnotes.co•6 days ago

We put in a FOIA back in *checks watch* 2017 after that meeting b/w MacGregor and domestic oil producers. But after SEVEN YEARS the request could only be partially completed because Docs created could not be accessed and record holders did not comply.

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