Sign the petition re: Secretary of Interior

Trump just announced he will nominate David Bernhardt, a former high-paid oil lobbyist, to run the Department of the Interior.

Dear MoveOn member,

Trump just announced he will nominate David Bernhardt, a former highly paid oil lobbyist, to run the Department of the Interior.¹ As secretary, Bernhardt will be responsible for fossil fuel leasing on our public lands and waters and implementing Trump's plan to gut the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments.

We don't need another interior secretary who is unfit to lead. Americans deserve a secretary who will put Americans first, not the profits of his former clients. Tell the Senate: Bernhardt is a walking conflict of interest and unfit to be secretary of the interior.

Bernhardt's former clients received government largesse after he became deputy secretary, and he is already the subject of litigation from groups requesting his ethics documentation under the Freedom of Information Act. Trump's last interior secretary was forced to resign amid growing scandal.²

If confirmed, you can imagine what will happen next—Bernhardt will use his position to help his Big Oil friends dismantle basic protections, such as the Endangered Species Act. Instead of draining the swamp, Trump wants to turn our national parks and wild places over to the swamp monsters. We need your help to fight back!

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Elizabeth Sherer, Friends of the Earth

Sources:

1. "Top Leader at Interior Dept. Pushes a Policy Favoring His Former Client," The New York Times, February 12, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/63092?t=9&akid=227730%2E10220574%2ED5hyBF

2. Ibid.

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