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View the inspector general’s 140-page report documenting potential ethics violations by Deputy Secretary of the Interior Department J. Steven Griles.

Read the Office of Government Ethics letter to the inspector general of the Interior Department discussing the inspector general's report and outlining outstanding ethical issues.

Read the letter from the Interior Department inspector general to Sen. Lieberman (D-Conn.) discussing the report and outlining outstanding ethical issues.


Policy Brief: J. Steven Griles: By the Numbers, an overview of Griles' activities

A list of Griles' meetings with the administration

On May 30, Friends of the Earth's Kristen Sykes was featured on the Bill Moyers' NOW program. It profiled her work exposing conflicts of interest by Deputy Secretary of the Interior Department J. Steven Griles. Read the transcript.


Press Release - June 3, 2003 - Environmental, Ethics Groups Call for Special Counsel to Conduct Criminal Investigation of Deputy Interior Secretary's Conduct: Lawsuit Filed to Obtain Information about Payments from Previous Employer and Meetings with Former Mining, Oil and Gas Industry Clients

Statement to the Press - June 3, 2003 - Friends of the Earth's Kristen Sykes explains why there needs to be a criminal investigation

Press Release - September 25, 2002 - Groups Demand that Bush Oust #2 at Interior Over Ethics Violations: Release Documents Revealing J. Steven Griles Involved in Decisions Benefiting Energy Companies that Were his Clients

Press Release - May 25, 2002 "According to a memo brought to light by Friends of the Earth Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI) J. Steven Griles violated recusal agreements in order to lobby on behalf of a company he formerly owned and from which he is not fully divested"....

Read the supporting documents:

Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles first recusal agreement on disqualification from matters involving former employers and clients - Dated Aug. 1, 2001

Letter from J. Steven Griles to EPA on Powder River Basin coal bed methane environmental impact statement - Dated April 12, 2002

Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles second recusal agreement from Matters Involving Coalbed Methane environmental impact statements - Dated May 8, 2002

Memo from Interior Department lawyers saying Griles did not violate his ethical contract, but had him sign another recusal agreement- to "reemphasize" the first - Dated May 3, 2002

The Case against J. Steven Griles - Memo detailing conflict of interest violations within the Interior Department

Read the letter opposing the nomination of J. Steven Griles as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior - June 4, 2001

Environmentalists Fight Mining Industry Lobbyist Confirmation for Deputy Secretary of Interior: Friends of the Earth calls J. Steven Griles "Coal and Oil Industry's Mike Tyson" - May 16, 2001

Read the letter Griles wrote to National Environmental Strategies stating the steps he would take to avoid conflicts of interest if he was appointed to deputy secretary of the Interior Department (pdf) - April 24, 2001

Read Brent Blackwelder's Testimony on Griles.


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