The Berman-Considine frackademia astroturf

June 23, 2014
PositionPositionTransactionTransactionTransactionPositionTransactionOwnershipOwnershipPositionTransactionTransactionPenn StateMarcellus ShaleCoalitionEmploymentPolicies InstituteShale Resourcesand SocietyInstituteTimothy ConsidineRichard BermanBerman and CompanyInterstate PolicyAllianceAnastasiaSwearingenCenter for OrganizationalResearch and EducationEnvironmentalPolicy Alliance

In 2014, Berman staffer Anastasia Swearingen, on behalf the Berman front group Environmental Policy Alliance, published op-eds in Rocky Mountain region newspapers calling for the BLM to open federal lands for mining and oil and gas drilling. Swearingen's columns relied a Berman-funded study by notorious frackademic Timothy Considine for their central claim of missed economic benefit from the BLM's permit process.