By Lee Fang
The Nation - February 21, 2014
For Chevron, the second-largest oil company in the country with $26.2 billion
in annual profits, it helps to have friends in high places. With little
fanfare, one of Chevron’s top lobbyists, Stephen Sayle, has become a
senior staff member of the House Committee on Science, the standing
congressional committee charged with “maintaining our scientific and technical leadership in the world.”
Throughout much of 2013, Sayle was the chief executive officer of Dow
Lohnes Government Strategies, a lobbying firm retained by Chevron to
influence Congress. For fees that total $320,000 a year, Sayle and his
team lobbied on a range of energy-related issues, including implementation
of EPA rules under the Clean Air Act, regulation of ozone standards, as
well as “Congressional and agency oversight related to offshore oil,
natural gas development and oil spills.”
Sayle’s ethics disclosure, obtained by Republic Report, shows that he
was paid $500,000 by Chevron’s lobbying firm before taking his current
gig atop the Science Committee.
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