"They join a stable of industry insiders at DOI, including DOGE operative Tyler Hassen, who made millions in the energy sector before joining the agency"
"Two more former industry lobbyists have taken up influential positions at President Trump’s Interior Department, Public Domain has learned.
The first, Smythe Anderson, is working as a senior advisor. She comes to DOI from the American Energy Alliance and its sister organization, the Institute for Energy Research, where she served as the director of government relations and external affairs. The American Energy Alliance is a free-market energy advocacy organization that has close ties to the conservative Koch brothers and their vast political network. In recent years the organization has advocated against the fossil fuel divestment movement, against more stringent ozone pollution limits, and against subsidies for wind energy and electric vehicles.
Prior to her work at AEA, Anderson was a lobbyist on tax and environmental issues for the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas trade group in the country. She also previously worked in Chevron’s government affairs office.
A person named Dustin Sherer has also joined DOI. That name matches a long-time Republican operative who most recently worked as the director of government affairs at the American Farm Bureau Federation, one of the agriculture industry’s largest and most powerful lobbying groups. Last year alone the federation spent some $1.3 million on lobbying expenses. Senate lobbying disclosure forms show Sherer has lobbied on behalf of the industry on water infrastructure and water development issues, among other priorities."
Jimmy Tobias reports fot Public Domain May 29, 2025.
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