Todd Wynn
Credentials
- M.A., International and Developmental Economics, University of San Francisco (2008).1 โTodd Wynn: Former analyst covering the Environment,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/MaPgc 2 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- B.A., Business Economics, California State University (2006).3 โTodd Wynn: Former analyst covering the Environment,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/MaPgc 4 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- Majored in Business Economics at the Virginia Military Institute (2004).5 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
Background
Todd Wynn is the former director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs in the United States Department of the Interior, where he started in October 2017 and left in August 2019.6 โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog. 7 Steve Horn. โFormer Head of Energy, Environment at ALEC, Todd Wynn, Hired by Trump Interior Department,โ DeSmog, October 18, 2017. 8 โ2 more Zinke appointees head for the exit,โ E&E News, August 29, 2019. Archived September 3, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/rediV
From 2011 to 2013, Wynn oversaw the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). He then went to serve as the Director of External Affairs for the Edison Electrical Institute (EEI), an ALEC member that pays to engage in the same task force Wynn prevously headed.9 โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog. 10 Connor Gibson. โGreenpeace Confirms: Six Utilities Quietly Dumped ALEC,โ Greenpeace USA, May 1, 2014. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/QQ2dZ
In July 2008, he became a policy analyst at the Cascade Policy Institute where he conducted โclimate change and energy policy research.โ He was promoted to Vice President of the Institute in 2010 but left in 2011.11 โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog.
Todd Wynn & ALEC
According to the Center for Media and Democracy’s SourceWatch, while Wynn worked at ALEC from September 2011 to September 2013, the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force passed several anti-environmental bills including โThe Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Actโ, a โResolution in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline,โ a โResolution Supporting A Reasonable Compliance Timeline and Economy-Wide Impact Study of EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Rule,โ a โResolution in Support of REINS Actโโa bill pushed for years by the Koch-funded front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP)โand a โResolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax.โ12 โALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force,โ SourceWatch. Accessed June 21, 2018.
โWynnโs long history working with polluting industries and right-wing groups makes him a natural conduit between those groups and DOI. He is part of a pattern of DOI staffing positions with veterans of the fossil fuel industry,โ the Energy and Policy Institute reported when Wynn joined DOI in 2017.13 โTodd Wynn, operative for electric utilities and climate denier, the latest industry hire at Department of the Interior,โ Energy and Policy Institute, October 19, 2017.
Stance on Climate Change
June 30, 2010
Wynn went on Populations TV to discuss โthe BP oil spill, energy policy, climate change, and other environment topics.โ Note that the video no longer available online.
โIt’s absolutely ridiculous to say that they know that human activity is the major part of that [climate change]. We’ve had a temperature record a very spurious one for the maybe past 100 years, in the last 30 years a satellite temperature record. And then all the calculations for the predictions of the future are based on models [โฆ] we’ve already seen that they’re way off on their predictions.โ14 โTodd Wynn discussing energy and the climate on Populations TV,โ (At 15:40), Vimeo Video uploaded by Cascade Policy. Video no longer available online.
June 22, 2009
Wynn wrote โthe earth is currently coolingโ in a 2009 piece at the Oregon Catalyst.15 Todd Wynn. โGLOBAL WARMING? NO! IT IS NOW CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE,โ Oregon Catalyst, June 22, 2009. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/aO9Cb
โIt is hard to advocate for overbearing regulations that attempt to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions when global temperatures have been stable or declining. In fact, in at least the last seven years, global temperatures have declined, despite increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide,โ Wynn wrote.
Key Quotes
November 1, 2012
Quoted at MasterResource, Wynn described renewable energy mandates as โcrony capitalist policiesโ:16 Todd Wynn. โALEC to States: Repeal Renewable Energy Mandates (‘Electricity Freedom Act’ model bill adopted),โ MasterResource, November 1, 2012. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/QWmm6
โHouseholds in 29 states are and will continue to see higher electricity rates, lower economic growth and, subsequently, lower standard of livings without outright repeal of these crony capitalist policies,โ Wynn said.
2011
In a renewable energy talk at the Cascade Policy Institute, Wynn said he didn’t believe carbon dioxdide was a โreal pollutantโ:17 โRenewable Energy- Todd Wynn – Cascade Policy Institute,โ YouTube video uploaded by user โstillfreetochoose,โ June 11, 2011.
March 22, 2011
โUnfortunately, renewable energy costs more than traditional energy sources and is often less reliable,โ Wynn wrote in 2011 for the Cascade Policy Institute. โAlthough generating energy from wind turbines and solar panels is essentially free, the costs of construction, maintenance and integrating inconsistent energy into the grid are prohibitively expensive.โ18 Todd Wynn. โOops! Renewable Energy Costs Oregon Billions,โ Cascade Policy Institute, March 22, 2011. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/zVP29
March 13, 2010
Wynn was quoted in a KATU news article about the so-called โdirty secretโ of wind power:
โWind does not reduce carbon emissions but instead creates them.โ19 Anita Kissรฉe and KATU.com Staff. โWind powerโs dirty secret? Its carbon footprint,โ KATU.com, March 12, 2010. Archived March 14, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/t6orf
April 2009
Wynn spoke at the Heartland Institute‘s International Conference on Climate Change in 2009:
โA lot of people like to say well Todd, you are in the hands of big oil or youโre an anti-environmentalist, but I consider myself an environmentalist of all sorts, I care about the beach, I care about the successful evolution of humankind and the planet. But the truth is you have to focus on environmental goals that are achievable cost effective and have a measurable benefit and if the cost outweigh the benefits it doesn’t make sense to charge ahead on an emotional and heart tugging issue like saving the planet.โ
โActual climate change in my part of the country, there’s not much, 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last few years.โ20 โInternational Climate Change Conf. – Part 1 (Todd Wynn),โ YouTube video uploaded by user โGrassrootHawaiiโ on April 1, 2009. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
2009
Wynn partcipated in the โClimate Chainsโ documentary, where he declared (emphasis added):
โClimate change is a perfect scapegoat for environmentalists. They can use that to change the behavior, the lifestyle, and the standard of living of every single citizen on the planet. We also have to look at the benefits of higher global temperatures, a lot of places that werenโt arable land before are now going to be. And I think thatโs important, that you need to weigh those costs and benefits. I think that global warming could be a net benefit for the planet in fact.โ21 ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Todd Wynn.
January 29, 2009
At the Cascade Policy Institute, Wynn claimed โproposals in the Oregon Legislature to implement a Cap-and-Trade system would have no effect on global warming.โ22 โJoe Gamm, โCounty inspired by Community Emergency Response Teamsโ efforts; Commission looks to hire county manager; stimulus projects meeting on tap,โ The Daily Astorian, January 29, 2009. Quoted by Department of Influence.โ
Key Deeds
June 15, 2018
HuffPost, having obtained a copy of Wynn’s resume, reported that Wynn’s recent actions had the potential to violate the ethics pledge Wynn had signed on October 16. The pledge prohibits political appointees in the executive branch from participating โin any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to [oneโs] former employer or former clients.โ23 โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo 24 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud. 25 โEthics Documents DOI,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
According to a copy of Wynn’s calendar obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, on October 27 he planned on attending a 30-minute call with Jennifer Butler, a senior policy adviser at the ALEC-linked State Policy Network. He had also scheduled a call with Grant Kidwell, ALEC’s current director of the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force , on December 19. A spokeswoman for ALEC denied the meeting ever occurred.26 โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
Wynn’s CV also notes he was previously a committee member of the Exxon-funded Council of State Governments from 2015 until joining the Interior Department in 2017. According to his schedule, Wynn had also scheduled a call with Rich Lindsay, the head of the Council’s energy and environment committee.27 โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo 28 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud. 29 โCouncil of State Governments,โ Conservative Transparency. Accessed June 21, 2018.
Interior department spokeswoman Vander Voort responded to HuffPost, claiming the ALEC and affiliate meetings did not conflict with the ethics pledge as Wynn’s employment at the organization ended more than two years before he joined the agency. She did not respond to questions about Wynnโs continued work with ALEC through the Edison Electric Institute or his role at the Council of State Governments.30 โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
The scheduled calls appear to violate the โgovernment-wide regulatory standards of conductโ that โbar [Wynn] from meeting personally with any former client or employer he served in the year prior to the meeting,โ Walter Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics, said in an email to HuffPost.31 โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
November 9, 2017
Todd Wynn attended the Heartland Institute’s โAmerica First Energy Conferenceโ at the Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas. Vincent DeVito gave a shout out to Wynn in the audience around two minutes into his speech.32 โVincent DeVito, Dinner Keynote, AFEC,โ YouTube video uploaded by user โThe Heartland Institute,โ December 2, 2017. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
Listed speakers included current and former industry representatives such as Heath Lovell, VP of Public Policy for Alliance Coal, former Peabody Energy senior VP Fred PalmerICCC speakers like Jim Inhofe (who, while not there in person, gave a video address to the conference), Craig Idso, and Joe BastMyron Ebell and David Schnare.33 โSpeakers,โ America First Energy Conference. Archived November 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/3Trix
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt gave a video address to the conference, saying โwe want to celebrate what’s been going on this last year with respect to the changes that have taken place in Washington D.C.โ He goes on to list off the โtremendous change with respect to regulatory reform.โ34 โScott Pruitt,โ America First Energy Conference. Archived November 20, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/X4F6m
October 2, 2017
Todd Wynn, in his capacity as the Edison Electric Instituteโs Director of External Affairs, spoke at a โEnergy/Environment Leadership Summitโ in October 2, 2016. Utility Secrets obtained the audio recording, in which Wynn asks State Policy Network (SPN) members at the event to โget involvedโ in advocating with Public Utility Commissions to support policies that would kill rooftop solar growth and tax consumers. The annual event is organized by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and takes place alongside the SPN’s annual meeting.35 David Pomerantz. โAudio: Edison Electric Institute โDirector of External Affairs Enlists Third-Parties To Help Attack Rooftop Solar,โ Utility Secrets, March 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/Ix5JX
โSo, State Policy Network, all the state-focused groups, sometimes weโre here and weโre talking about federal energy policy, which you guys should certainly have an impact on. Itโs important to learn about and also important to focus on. This is one of those issues thatโs happening in your state, every decision is at the state level, and may be in an area that you may have not engaged in the past with the public utility commissions, but I urge you to get involved in those. Public Utility Commissions, Service Commissions, Corporation Commissions, whatever they happened to be called in your state โ thereโs a lot of power there and they make some pretty significant decisions that right now, I donโt think a free-market think tank has engaged as deeply as the political Left, the environmental groups have,โ Wynn said.36 David Pomerantz. โAudio: Edison Electric Institute โDirector of External Affairs Enlists Third-Parties To Help Attack Rooftop Solar,โ Utility Secrets, March 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/Ix5JX
Utility Secrets reported that Wynn explicitly asked SPN for help on two policies: fixed charges, and net metering.37 David Pomerantz. โAudio: Edison Electric Institute โDirector of External Affairs Enlists Third-Parties To Help Attack Rooftop Solar,โ Utility Secrets, March 8, 2017. Archived .mp3 on file at DeSmog. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/Ix5JX
July 2015
The Washington Post reported Wynn spoke at an ALEC conference, where he told legislators that they should begin complying with Clean Power Plan regulations even while they were persuing lawsuits to block it:38 โFoes of clean-air rule plan multiple-front battle,โ Washington Post, August 3, 2015. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/mKUPV
โOur folks think that submitting a [compliance] plan is a good way to go for a couple of reasons,โWynn told the group, according to notes from the meeting. โFor one thing, it doesnโt ruin your standing as far as litigation is concerned.โ
December 2014
Wynn spoke at the winter โpolicy summitโ of the American City County Exchange (ACCE), an offshoot of of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch reported Wynn briefed the audience on what EEI member utilities considred threats: net metering and municipalization of distribution systems for green energy.39 โUndercover at ACCE: ALEC Offshoot Spins City and County Officials on Dirty Energy, Local Control,โ PR Watch, February 23, 2015.
โWynn was explicit in describing how a local elected officialโs relationship with a utility company can be a ‘you scratch my back, Iโll scratch yours’ situationโ PR Watch reported. โ’Engage and get to know your local electric utility. Those guys are really great,โ Wynn said. โThey can be awesome assets for you. They can help you out with your races at some point in time as well, which is always positive.’โ40 โUndercover at ACCE: ALEC Offshoot Spins City and County Officials on Dirty Energy, Local Control,โ PR Watch, February 23, 2015.
July 5, 2013
While working at ALEC, Wynn co-wrote an article titled, โEPA Growth Knows No Limits,โ comparing then-President Barack Obama to a โkingโ for using an executive agency to implement the Clean Power Plan.41 Todd Wynn and William Yeatman. โEPA Growth Knows No Limits,โ The American Spectator, July 5, 2013. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/lNyew
โSimply put, the president is using Congressional inaction as a pretext for a climate policy power grab, and that is very troubling,โ Wynn wrote with his co-author William Yeatman. Yeatman works as an energy policy analyst for the corporate-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute. โDuring President Obamaโs first term, however, the EPA initiated an outright regulatory assault on the American standard of living,โ they claimed.42 Todd Wynn and William Yeatman. โEPA Growth Knows No Limits,โ The American Spectator, July 5, 2013. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/lNyew
Wynn also commissioned Yeatman to write a report titled โThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty.โ43 William Yeatman. โThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty,โ ALEC, 2013.
โCongress intended for states to be first among equals in this federalist arrangement,โ the report read. It further posited that โthe EPA is replacing cooperative federalism with command and control.โ
June 6, 2013
Wynn praised Utah’s HB 148, a bill designed to bring public lands under state control. HB 148 was one of ALEC’s โmodel billsโ handed out to legislators.44 Todd Wynn. โNevada Becomes the 5th Western State to Explore the Transfer of Public Lands,โ ALEC, June 6, 2013. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/JOFEG 45 โDisposal and Taxation of Public Lands Act,โ ALEC. Amended January 15, 2012. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/4YCWU
โIn 2014, expect more states to press this issue both in the East and the West as state legislators are likely to continue to work together through ALEC and other organizations in order to gain back their land,โ Wynn wrote at ALEC.
โWynn is claiming that Americaโs parks and public lands should rightly be under the control of state legislators, not the American people. This is the language used by land seizure advocates like the American Lands Council, whose founder, Utah State Rep. Ken Ivory, was the primary sponsor of Utahโs HB 148,โ wrote the Center for Western Priorities, a watchdog group focused on national parks, monuments, public lands, and energy in the American West.46 โMeet the Interior Department official who wants to give away Americaโs public lands,โ WestWise, October 19, 2017. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/NfnK7
May 21โ23, 2012
Wynn was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 7th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).47 โSeventh International Conference on Climate Change, Program,โ (PDF) Heartland Institute. Archived January 10, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/JyfxI
DeSmogBlog researched co-sponsors behind the conference and discovered that they had received a total of over $67 Million from ExxonMobil, Koch, and Scaife family foundations.
Wynn’s speech, titled โRegulation without Representation: How the EPA has become a political toolโ can be viewed below.
March 2012
ALEC has been in favor of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Todd Wynn writes how โALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).โ He describes federal regulations on natural gas as โduplicative and unnecessary.โ48 Todd Wynn. โALEC Encourages Responsible Resource Production,โ American Legislator, March 1, 2012. Archived February 18, 2013. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/tcdeb
DeSmogBlog has also done an in-depth investigation on the environmental impacts of fracking in the Fracking the Future report, and found that the potentially devastating impacts from unconventional gas development on water supplies, air quality and the global climate deserve much greater study and scrutiny.
Industry lobbying and misinformation campaigns like some of the work by the American Legislative Exchange Council have confused the public and made it more difficult to gauge the actual impacts of fracking.
May 2010
Wynn was a speaker at the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC4).49 โFourth International Conference on Climate Change, Program,โ (PDF) Heartland Institute, November 2016. Desmog has done an in-depth investigation into the sponsors of the conference and found that 19 of the 65 sponsors (including Heartland itself) have received a total of over $40 million in funding since 1985 from ExxonMobil, and/or Koch Industries family foundations and/or the Scaife family foundations.
Wynn’s speech, titled โEconomic Freedom: a No-Regrets Strategy for Reducing Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissionsโ can be viewed below.
March 8โ10, 2009
Wynn attended the Heartland Institute’s 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York.50 โInternational Climate Change Conf. – Part 1 (Todd Wynn),โ YouTube video uploaded by user โGrassroothawaii,โ April 1, 2009. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
February 24, 2009
Wynn made a video called โKarma Neutral Offsetsโ to make fun of the concept of carbon neutral offsets.51 โKarma Neutral Offsets,โ YouTube video uploaded by user โCascadeViews,โ February 24, 2009.
โWe got this idea from those guys who sell carbon offsets [โฆ] Picture this, you commit a bad deed, like robbing someone for money or stealing a car [โฆ] then, to offset, and equal out the bad karma produced by your bad deed, a Karma Neutral employee, or someone paid by Karma Neutral, will do a good deed to offset your bad karma, in the form of a certificate to the good karma we produced.โ
2009
Wynn participated in in the Cascade Policy Institute video โClimate Chainsโ along with other climate change skeptics including Kenneth Green, Chris Horner, Marlo Lewis, and Patrick Michaels.
The video claims that โOne of the greatest threats to freedom and prosperity in America is climate change legislation.โ The video was organized by the Cascade Policy Institute.52 โAbout the Experts,โ Climate Chains. Archived April 1, 2010. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/30PB3
The video can be viewed below.
Climate Chains from Climate Chains on Vimeo.
2007 โ 2010
Wynn was listed as the Program Director for the โCarbon Cartel Education Projectโ by the Cascade Policy Institute.
The project contends that โOne of the greatest threats to freedom and economic prosperity in America today is climate change legislation,โ the exact words used by the Cascade Policy Institute’s โClimate Chainsโ video.
It describes its goal as to โraise awareness of the costs and implications of policies based on global warming alarmism by conducting a multi-faceted campaign to peel away grassroots political support for carbon restrictions, while simultaneously promoting market-based policies that preserve individual liberty, economic opportunity, and environmental quality.โ53 โCarbon Cartel Education Project,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 26, 2011. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/sdMfo
Affiliations
- Edison Electric Institute โ Former Director of External Affairs (started in September 2013).54 โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog. 55 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) โ Former Director, Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force (September 2011 โ September 2013).56 โEnergy, Environment, and Agriculture,โ American Legislative Exchange Council. Archived May 10, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/DFhTV
- Cascade Policy Institute โ Past Vice President (Feb 2010 โ Sept 2011) and former Analyst (Jul 2008 โ Feb 2010)57 โTodd Wynn: Former analyst covering the Environment,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/MaPgc 58 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- American Tradition Institute (ATI) โ Former Research Fellow (April 2011 โ September 2013).59 โFellows & Advisors,โ American Tradition Institute. Archived February 7, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/kEv1n 60 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- Council of State Governments โ Energy and Environmental Public Policy Committee Member (starting June 2015).61 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- Center for Legislative Energy and Environmental Research (CLEER) โ Program Advisory Board Member.62 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation (OCWF) โ Board Member (May 2011 โ Sept 2013).63 โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
Social Media
Publications
Todd Wynn regularly publishes articles on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange Council at their publication American Legislator.
Many of his articles are critical of government regulation in any form and he often criticizes actions by the EPA.
According to his profile at the Cascade Policy Institute, he has been published in newspapers including the Oregonian, The Statesman Journal, Roseburg Beacon, Cascade Business News, Tigard/Tualatin Times, Beaverton Valley Times, Northwest Connections, Central Oregonian and many others.
He has also appeared on TV and radio programs such as Fox News, KGW, The Jeff Kropf Show, Lars Larson Show, Bill Post Show, and the Victoria Taft Show.
Other Resources
- Todd Wynn profile at Department of Influence.
- Financial Disclosures from the Office of Government Ethics.
- Todd Wynn profile at ProPublicaโs Trump Town.
- โTrump Expands Oil Drilling But Obama Paved the Way,โ The Real News Network, October 29, 2017.
Resources
- 1โTodd Wynn: Former analyst covering the Environment,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/MaPgc
- 2โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 3โTodd Wynn: Former analyst covering the Environment,โ Cascade Policy Institute. Archived April 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/MaPgc
- 4โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 5โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 6โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog.
- 7Steve Horn. โFormer Head of Energy, Environment at ALEC, Todd Wynn, Hired by Trump Interior Department,โ DeSmog, October 18, 2017.
- 8โ2 more Zinke appointees head for the exit,โ E&E News, August 29, 2019. Archived September 3, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/rediV
- 9โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog.
- 10Connor Gibson. โGreenpeace Confirms: Six Utilities Quietly Dumped ALEC,โ Greenpeace USA, May 1, 2014. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/QQ2dZ
- 11โWynn, Todd.โ Linkedin. Accessed October 18, 2017. Archived .pdf file on DeSmog.
- 12โALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force,โ SourceWatch. Accessed June 21, 2018.
- 13โTodd Wynn, operative for electric utilities and climate denier, the latest industry hire at Department of the Interior,โ Energy and Policy Institute, October 19, 2017.
- 14โTodd Wynn discussing energy and the climate on Populations TV,โ (At 15:40), Vimeo Video uploaded by Cascade Policy. Video no longer available online.
- 15Todd Wynn. โGLOBAL WARMING? NO! IT IS NOW CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE,โ Oregon Catalyst, June 22, 2009. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/aO9Cb
- 16Todd Wynn. โALEC to States: Repeal Renewable Energy Mandates (‘Electricity Freedom Act’ model bill adopted),โ MasterResource, November 1, 2012. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/QWmm6
- 17โRenewable Energy- Todd Wynn – Cascade Policy Institute,โ YouTube video uploaded by user โstillfreetochoose,โ June 11, 2011.
- 18Todd Wynn. โOops! Renewable Energy Costs Oregon Billions,โ Cascade Policy Institute, March 22, 2011. Archived June 21, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/zVP29
- 19Anita Kissรฉe and KATU.com Staff. โWind powerโs dirty secret? Its carbon footprint,โ KATU.com, March 12, 2010. Archived March 14, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/t6orf
- 20โInternational Climate Change Conf. – Part 1 (Todd Wynn),โ YouTube video uploaded by user โGrassrootHawaiiโ on April 1, 2009. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
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- 22โJoe Gamm, โCounty inspired by Community Emergency Response Teamsโ efforts; Commission looks to hire county manager; stimulus projects meeting on tap,โ The Daily Astorian, January 29, 2009. Quoted by Department of Influence.โ
- 23โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
- 24โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 25โEthics Documents DOI,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 26โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
- 27โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
- 28โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- 29โCouncil of State Governments,โ Conservative Transparency. Accessed June 21, 2018.
- 30โYet Another Top Interior Department Official Seems To Have An Ethics Problem,โ HuffPost, June 15, 2018. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XPaLo
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- 43William Yeatman. โThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Assault on State Sovereignty,โ ALEC, 2013.
- 44Todd Wynn. โNevada Becomes the 5th Western State to Explore the Transfer of Public Lands,โ ALEC, June 6, 2013. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/JOFEG
- 45โDisposal and Taxation of Public Lands Act,โ ALEC. Amended January 15, 2012. Archived June 22, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/4YCWU
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- 49โFourth International Conference on Climate Change, Program,โ (PDF) Heartland Institute, November 2016.
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- 61โTodd Wynn CV,โ Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
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