Alex Fitzsimmons
Alex Fitzsimmons Credentials Background Alex Fitzsimmons was the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) before getting promoted to Chief of Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency at DOE in February 2020. He transitioned from DOE to become senior program […]
Jack N. Gerard
Jack N. Gerard Credentials Background Jack N. Gerard is former President, CEO, and a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute (API), a national trade association that โrepresents all aspects of Americaโs oil and natural gas industry.โ Prior to working with API, Gerard was President and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), where he also […]
Fred Palmer
Fred Palmer Credentials Background Fredrick D. Palmer was the senior vice president of government relations for Peabody Energy Corporation from 2001 to June 2015, also serving on the Executive Leadership Team until 2014. Most recently he worked as Peabody’s Special Advisor to the Office of Peabody’s Executive Chairman before joining the public relations firm Total […]
Scott Pruitt
Scott Pruitt Credentials Background E. Scott Pruitt served as the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Trump Administration until resigning in July 2018 following a series of ethics scandals. Pruitt formerly served as the Oklahoma Attorney General, a position he held since November, 2010.1โAbout the Attorney General,โ Oklahoma Office of the […]
Roger Pielke Jr.
Roger Pielkeย Jr. Credentials Background Roger Pielke Jr.ย is a climate science policy writer who formerly worked at the University of Colorado Boulder before leaving academia in 2024 to join the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as a nonresident senior fellow.2“Scholars: Roger Pielke […]
Marlo Lewis, Jr.
Marlo Lewis, Jr. Credentials Background Marlo Lewis is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a group that has received funding from a range of energy industry groups and conservative foundations such as the Koch family foundations, ExxonMobil, Texaco, Arch Coal, and the American Petroleum Institute (API) among others.1โCompetitive Enterprise Institute,โ Conservative Transparency. […]
David Rose
David Rose Credentials Background David Rose is a British author and journalist who has published a wide range of articles challenging man-made climate change, frequently citing material and reports from the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) and global warming skeptics such as Judith Curry, and Benny Peiser, of the GWPF. Rose is the investigations editor […]
Citizens for the Republic
Citizens for the Republic (CFTR) Background Citizens for the Republic (CFTR) is a political action committee founded by Ronald Reagan in 1977 to โattract conservative support.โ 2Theย New York Timesย reported in 1985 […]
Rex Tillerson
Rex W. Tillerson Credentials Background Rex W. Tillerson served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil from 2006-2016. Tillerson announced his retirement on December 14, 2016, after his nomination for the position of U.S. Secretary of State by President-elect Donald Trump. Exxon Mobil Corp said that Darren Woods would replace Rex Tillerson as […]
Roger A. Pielke Sr.
Roger A. Pielke Sr. Credentials Background Roger A. Pielke Sr. is a Senior Research Scientist, heading the the Pielke research group at CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC). He is also an Emeritus Professor […]