Retiring Guy's Digest: TRUMP CRIME FAMILY: Pay to play the methane-leaking way

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

TRUMP CRIME FAMILY: Pay to play the methane-leaking way

Headline: Pro Publica, 6/16/2026

Photo credit: Wikipedia

Alex Cuadros reports:

Hildebrand had never been a leading political contributor. But in 2024, the Biden administration issued aggressive restrictions on methane pollution — rules that would impose steep costs on Hilcorp — and the once-obscure tycoon became one of Trump’s biggest oil industry supporters, giving millions to his campaign. A man in a suit sits at a table with a name tag in front of him. Hilcorp CEO Jeffery Hildebrand during a meeting with U.S. oil company executives at the White House on Jan. 9

Trump has since named a former Hilcorp lobbyist to a top post at the Environmental Protection Agency, putting him in charge of an effort to unravel the methane rules with help from trade groups backed by Hildebrand, a ProPublica investigation has found. That will bring a sweeping reprieve for the nation’s 700,000 stripper wells, boosting Hildebrand’s profits while saddling society as a whole with the climate fallout.

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