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	Steven Griles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Steven Griles (born December 13, 1947) was the Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Interior from July 2001 to January 2005.
		Griles was formerly a principal with National Environmental Strategies, Inc. (NES), a consulting firm providing advice to companies, trade associations and others with regard to policy, regulatory, environmental and energy issues at the Federal and State government level.
		Griles was also asked to testify before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in the investigation of the Abramoff scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Griles (472 words)

	AlterNet: Son of James Watt
		Griles -- referred to as the chief operating officer of the department by President Bush -- meets frequently with White House officials.
		Griles is a "former" oil and gas lobbyist who still receives $284,000.00 a year from his old firm, National Environmental Strategies.
		Griles is up to his old tricks again, and environmentalists and Democrats aren't the only groups he has angered.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16647 (812 words)

	Official's Lobbying Ties Decried (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Griles said he wouldn't be involved in any particular matter that impacts his previous clients and employer, and he clearly was involved in discussions about rule-making that have weakened environmental laws and have had positive impacts on his previous clients," said Kristen Sykes, a researcher for Friends of the Earth.
		Griles, a mid-level Interior official in the Reagan administration and onetime Virginia coal company vice president, has generated concern among environmentalists and some lawmakers because of his extensive industry ties and his reputation for aggressively pushing to loosen environmental restrictions to open more public land to drilling and mining.
		Griles has also been involved in deliberations over clean-air enforcement policy and initiatives, a topic handled primarily by the EPA and the Energy Department According to his calendar, Griles attended at least 16 meetings with other administration officials or industry groups or advocates to discuss air pollution issues.
	www.defenders.org /newsroom/griles.html (1723 words)

	Steven Griles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Steven Griles is the Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Interior.
		Since his appointment, environmental groups say Griles has continued lobbying for his oil, gas and coal industry clients.
		A freedom of information request in September 2002 turned up evidence that Griles has met with former clients in the fossil fuel industries, despite having signed a written agreement stating he would recuse himself from "any particular matter involving specific parties in which any of [his] former clients is or represents a party."
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/st/steven_griles.html (206 words)

	Community Rights Counsel: Taking Back Community Rights
		Even after President Bush appointed Griles as Gale Norton's top deputy at the Interior Department, where his stewardship of the nation's lands is bound by strict conflict of interest laws, he kept working to ease the introduction of drilling rigs into the basin, the site of the biggest domestic energy project in the country.
		Griles' behavior in the Powder River case is the latest in a series of alleged conflicts of interest that have followed him since he came to Interior with controversial Secretary James Watt and through regular tours since as an energy lobbyist.
		Griles and his backers say he is a victim of an old Washington parlor game in which people who disagree with your policies attack your ethics for fun and fundraising.
	www.communityrights.org /Newsroom/crcInTheNews/DP6-6-03.asp (2025 words)

	J. Steven Griles - SourceWatch
		Griles also sat on the President's senior policy group for the "Clear Skies" initiative (a misleading euphemistic name for a policy that is notorious for easing restrictions on corporate polluters), participating in at least 11 of its meetings.
		Griles' repeated meetings with past clients in spite of his recusal agreements finally prompted an investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Interior in 2003.
		Griles' superior, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, wrote in response to his resignation, "Yours is the letter I hoped would never come." David Hirsch of the environmental group Friends of the Earth said of Griles' plans to take a private sector job, "That's the whole problem: He never left private life.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=J._Steven_Griles (2708 words)

	Friends of the Earth - Campaigns
		Griles was a central figure in President Ronald Reagan's Department of Interior, headed by the infamous James Watt.
		Griles was closely involved with the gutting of the Office of Surface Mining in his first few years in the Interior Department-led at the time by James Watt.
		Griles was the central figure in a Reagan Administration effort to downplay the risk of oil spills associated with proposed drilling off the California coast.
	www.foe.org /camps/eco/interior/brenttest.html (1284 words)

	United States Department of the Interior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A department for domestic concerns was first considered by the First Congress in 1789, but those duties were placed in the Department of State.
		Its proposal continued to percolate for a half-century and was supported by Presidents from James Madison to James K. Polk.
		The 1846-1848 Mexican-American War, gave the proposal new steam as the responsibilities of the federal government grew.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/u/un/united_states_department_of_the_interior.html (394 words)

	Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida: News Article: Nelson fires latest shot in offshore drilling war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist, is President Bush's choice for the No. 2 spot at the Department of the Interior.
		In the 1980s Griles worked at the Department of the Interior under the controversial Secretary James Watt, rising to the position of assistant secretary of lands and minerals management.
		Griles told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week that he did not silence the opposing side and that he met with Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.
	www.senate.gov /member/fl/nelson/general/news/details.cfm?id=244482& (769 words)

	Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abramoff's main contact in Deputy Secretary of the Interior Steven Griles' office was through Italia Federici, a former political aide to Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton.
		Steven Griles (R) Abramoff claimed in emails sent in 2002 that Deputy United States Secretary of the Interior Griles had pledged to block an Indian casino that would compete with one of his clients.
		In 2005, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena in 2005 to Edward B Miller, the deputy chief of staff of the Republican governor of Maryland, Robert L. Ehrlich, because of Miller's connection to Grassroots Interactive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abramoff-Reed (2964 words)

	Friends of the Earth - Campaigns
		"Steven Griles is the Mike Tyson of the coal and oil industry operatives," said Friends of the Earth president Brent Blackwelder.
		Griles served in the Reagan Administration Interior Department as Assistant Secretary of Interior for Land and Minerals Management (1985-89), Deputy Assistant Secretary (1983-85), and as Deputy Director of the Office of Surface Mining (1981-83).
		Most notably, in 1989 it surfaced that Griles was the central figure in a Reagan Administration effort to downplay the risk of oil spills associated with proposed drilling off the California coast.
	www.foe.org /camps/eco/interior/opposegrilespr.html (824 words)

	In These Times \| James Watt of the 21st Century
		Steven Griles has taken his skills as a corporate shill for the energy industry to the Interior Department.
		Griles is a former employee of the oil and gas lobbying firm National Environmental Strategies, which is currently paying him $284,000 a year as part of a $1.1 million buyout of his client base.
		During the Reagan administration, Griles served in the Interior Department where he was involved in a shady deal to sell the mineral rights to 17,000 acres of federal land to a private company for $42,000.
	www.inthesetimes.com /comments.php?id=343_0_8_0_M (587 words)

	Democratic Underground - Meet James Steven Griles - former Deputy Secretary of Interior
		Griles first came to the department in 1981 under Interior Secretary James Watt, during the Reagan administration, serving as deputy director for the Office of Surface Mining.
		In 2001, as deputy secretary, Griles became instrumental in streamlining regulations to speed the approval process for mountaintop-removal coal mining.
		Griles also supported a new rule allowing mining companies to dump the debris in nearby waterways; some 1,200 miles of Appalachian streambeds have already been buried by the procedure.
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=54143&mesg_id=54143 (645 words)

	NewsMine.org - steven griles oil inside man.txt
		He prodded Griles to move quickly to loosen restrictions on the most environmentally malign form of coal mining, the aptly-named mountaintop removal method, where entire streams and valleys are buried in mining waste.
		Griles, who was then the Bush administration's point man on the financial impacts of air quality rules on the energy industry, bent a sympathetic ear.
		Griles was an ownership partner in a DC lobbying firm called National Environmental Strategies, a polluter's lobby founded in 1990 by Marc Himmelstein and Haley Barbour.
	newsmine.org /archive/cabal-elite/corporate/oil/steven-griles-oil-inside-man.txt (1786 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. May 30, 2003 \| PBS
		BASKIN: His name is J. Steven Griles and regardless of what the President had in mind, the effect was to take someone who has deep corporate ties, move him through the revolving door, and put him in charge of America's mineral resources and land holdings.
		Before his nomination to Interior, Griles was known as one of the energy industry's most powerful lobbyists a fact that made some members of Congress uneasy about his appointment to such a high ranking position in the federal government.
		James Watt was the founding President of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which defends mining, timber, and oil interests from environmental regulations.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript222_full.html (7931 words)

	Steven Griles - Schema-Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He also blows the whistle on Steven Griles, described as Abramoff's 'point man' inside the Department of the Interior.
		But her former chief deputy, super-lobbyist J. Steven Griles, who oversaw oil and gas leasing on federal lands at the same time he remained on the payroll of...
		Steven Griles, who served as the deputy secretary from 2001 to 2005, had many contacts with Abramoff's staff about the lobbyist's tribal clients.
	schema-root.org /region/americas/north_america/usa/government/officials/steven_griles (716 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Shafted
		Steven Griles, the No. 2 man in Bush's Interior Department, has spent a lifetime undermining the federal government on behalf of Energy Inc.
		Griles, who today is Deputy Secretary of the Interior, served as the No. 2 man at the Office of Surface Mining under President Reagan, and his comment was music to industry ears: Mining companies had been gunning for the office ever since it came into being in 1977.
		Fast-forward to 2003: Griles, now in an even more senior position at Interior, is being investigated by the department's inspector general for allegedly violating an ethics agreement.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/12/11/griles/index1.html (311 words)

	Hawk Watch 04 - Cheney, Rove, Giles, Baker, Rumsfield and more
		Steven Griles is the Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Interior.
		What Mr Griles did was to lobby congress in the name of his clients, only problem is that he now works for the same department that he used to lobby.
		Griles also keeps making boo-boo's when a memos are released, which backfire a little.
	bushandcheneysuck.com /Hawk_Watch_04.htm (2299 words)

	Timothy Noah
		Chatterbox has a question for J. Steven Griles, who went before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today to discuss his nomination for the No. 2 spot at the Interior Department.
		It isn't a question about Griles' lobbying on behalf of the mining, oil, and electric industries, or about Griles' apparent tilt toward these industries during his previous Interior stint in the 1980s.
		Naturally, Chatterbox is wondering whether the J. Steven Griles discussed in this document is the same J. Steven Griles who is poised to become deputy secretary of the interior.
	www.slate.com /id/1007696 (893 words)

	OVEC Action Alerts
		The worst of the bunch is J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary at the Department of the Interior.
		On top of all of this Griles has a continuing financial arrangement with one of his previous companies, National Environmental Strategies, in which he is receiving $284,000 annually for the next four years.
		Griles has continued to meet with and work on major issues of interest to his former clients, in violation of multiple recusal agreements.
	www.ohvec.org /action_alerts/2002/09_28 (1121 words)

	Steven Griles :: Jack Abramoff's Friend - JackInTheHouse.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steven Griles served as Deputy Secretary for the Department of the Interior, which has jurisdiction over Indian Affairs issues, from July 2001 until January 2005.
		Despite the fact that Griles was generally not involved in tribal issues, he frequently intervened in Department deliberations on issues affecting Abramoff’s tribal clients.
		Griles presented Interior officials with a binder containing legal arguments and congressional letters opposing the Jena plan.
	www.jackinthehouse.org /characters/details.php?view=25 (594 words)

	Ethics Probe Opened on Interior Dept. Lawyer; Environmental Groups Allege Conflicts of Interest
		The Interior Department's inspector general yesterday opened a probe into allegations of conflicts of interest surrounding a series of meetings involving the agency's top lawyer, members of his former law firm and officials of the cattle industry he represented before joining the Bush administration, the department announced.
		Deputy Secretary James Steven Griles, a former lobbyist for mining, oil and gas interests, has been the focus of a probe since May into his own meetings with former clients on key policy matters, including energy development in Wyoming.
		Another ethics probe concerns whether Bureau of Land Management director Kathleen Burton Clarke, a former Utah director of natural resources, violated a promise to recuse herself from a controversial land swap with the state of Utah, which critics alleged was a boon to state business interests.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0815-03.htm (907 words)

	Rolling Stone : Crimes Against Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Consider the story of James Zahn, a scientist at the Department of Agriculture who resigned after the Bush administration suppressed his taxpayer-funded study proving that billions of antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be carried daily across property lines from meat factories into neighboring homes and farms.
		Because Griles was an oil and mining lobbyist, the Senate made him agree in writing that he would avoid contact with his former clients as a condition of his confirmation.
		Griles also pushed EPA deputy administrator Linda Fisher to overrule career personnel in the agency's Denver office who had given a devastating assessment to a proposal to produce coal-bed methane gas in the Powder River basin in Wyoming.
	www.rollingstone.com /politics/story/5939345/crimes_against_nature (8147 words)

	Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more \| By Amanda Griscom \| Grist Magazine \| ...
		Current Secretary Gale Norton and her No. 2 man, J. Steven Griles, head a fifth column that is trying to sabotage environmental protection at every level.
		Griles has more conflicts of interest than a dog has fleas.
		James Watt (right) with former Energy Secretary James B. Edwards.
	www.grist.org /news/maindish/2003/08/26/griscom-moyers (2298 words)

	James C. Oberwetter - Schema-Root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Riyadh, 20 March 2006 — US Ambassador James C. Oberwetter has said the business relationship between the Kingdom and the US is getting stronger.
		The US ambassador in Riyadh James C. Oberwetter said in a statement that, "The Saudi government and Saudi Aramco deserve considerable credit for what they have...
		The US ambassador, James C. Oberwetter, apologized to the reporter for what happened and said that such a thing was "unacceptable.
	schema-root.org /region/americas/north_america/usa/government/officials/james_c._oberwetter (531 words)

	Norton Ex-Aides Clash on Lobbyist's Influence
		Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton's former legal counselor yesterday accused J. Steven Griles, the department's recently departed second in command, of improperly trying to meddle in decisions affecting tribal clients of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
		Griles to know I had my eye on him because I was worried about it -- whether founded or not, I was worried about it," Rossetti said.
		Griles told the panel he had been offered a job but immediately declined it and told Interior Department ethics officials about the overture.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202800.html (742 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Greens red with rage
		Griles, who didn't return calls for this story, has, like Norton before him, made conciliatory noises, saying that he has evolved since his days serving under James Watt, and now favors a "balanced" approach to running Interior.
		But environmentalists like Kendall have no shortage of evidence showing that, as far as they're concerned, Griles -- who worked in the Interior Department during the Reagan administration before becoming a lobbyist for the oil, mining and coal industries -- is no friend of the earth.
		During Griles' May 16 hearing, his self-declared evolution into favoring a "balanced" approach wasn't enough for Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who told Griles, "You're going to have to give me some evidence that you would look at these issues in a different way.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2001/05/23/griles/?CP=YAH&DN=110 (783 words)

	U.S. Department of the Interior - James Steven Griles Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		U.S. Department of the Interior - James Steven Griles Biography
		DOI manages 507 million acres of surface land, or about one-fifth of the land in the U.S. DOI en Español
		Steve Griles was confirmed as Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Interior on July 12, 2001.
	www.doi.gov /secretary/griles.html (607 words)

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