land last year to an oil and gas company in Grady, Okla. The 160 acres, which Bomgardner Alito inherited, stands to be very lucrative. The agreement with Citizen Energy stipulates that the company will pay Bomgardner Alito 3/16ths of any profits it makes from oil and gas sales.
Citizen Energy is one of the largest producers of oil and gas in Oklahoma, which, as of 2022, was theThere are no known direct conflicts yet between the purchase and Justice Alito’s rulings, but it adds “context to a political outlook that has environmentalists since Alito’s confirmation hearing in 2006 — and cast recent decisions that embolden the oil and gas industry in a damning light,” according to“There need not be a specific case involving the drilling rights associated with a specific plot of land for Alito to understand what outcomes in environmental cases would buttress his family’s net wealth,” said Jeff Hauser, director of the Revolving Door Project, an independent executive branch watchdog.
Alito’s record on the environment is one of undoing gains. In 2022, he was one of the six justices who voted to curb the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions. Just the previous year, President Biden said the United States would work to cut planet-warming