, we can get a firsthand look at what some of those friendly text sessions looked like.
In September of 2018, for instance, Angelle sent a video of remarks he’d given to the American Legislative Exchange Council to Lynne Hackedorn, the current director of government affairs for Talos Energy Inc. and then–land and regulatory consultant for Marubeni Oil & Gas. He evidently was hoping to get Hackedorn’s approval on the agency’s “messaging.”Previously, that same video was also sent to an offshore worker in Texas.
“What these communications show is that the agency was not relying on expertise,” said Richard Revesz, dean emeritus of New York University School of Law and an expert on environmental and regulatory legal matters. “It was making a political decision that went against the advice of the experts and the experts were being sidelined.”