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Jeffery Hildebrand
Private Sector Figure · Founder, Hilcorp Energy Company
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Jeffery Hildebrand is an American billionaire businessman and the founder and chairman of Hilcorp Energy Company, a privately held oil and gas exploration and production firm he established in 1989. He served as the company's chief executive officer until 2018. His wife, Melinda "Mindy" Hildebrand, is an American diplomat and businesswoman who was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as United States Ambassador to Costa Rica and confirmed by the Senate.
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Trump's Interior Department generates record $164M from Alaska oil lease sale
Fossil Fuels sector — The U.S. upstream fossil-fuel industry is the structural beneficiary of the BLM's statutorily mandated lease sale program. The OBBBA mandate requires at least five NPR-A sales offering ≥4 million acres each through 2035, locking in a long-cycle lease pipeline for industry participants.
Interior reopens 1.56-million-acre ANWR Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing
Fossil Fuels sector — Reopens up to 1.56 million acres of the ANWR Coastal Plain — estimated to hold up to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil — to leasing across the U.S. oil and gas industry.
Trump creates National Energy Dominance Council chaired by Burgum
Fossil Fuels sector — Fossil-fuel producers (oil, gas, coal) are the largest single class of beneficiaries — the council's mandate explicitly targets maximizing domestic production and coordinating regulatory streamlining across the fossil sector.
Jeffery/Melinda Hildebrand donates $1M to Trump-Vance inaugural
Donated $1,000,000 to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.
Trump order ends EV mandates and state emissions waivers
Fossil Fuels sector — Ends federal EV mandates and state emissions waivers, sustaining demand for gasoline-powered vehicles and the fossil fuels that power them.
Trump order directs agencies to rescind energy-burdening regulations
Fossil Fuels sector — Directs every federal agency to suspend or rescind rules burdening oil, gas, and coal development, easing the regulatory load across the fossil-fuel industry.
Trump order directs EPA to reconsider 2009 endangerment finding
Fossil Fuels sector — Targets the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas rules, relieving the fossil-fuel industry of the emissions standards built on the 2009 endangerment finding.
Trump revokes twelve Biden climate and environmental orders
Fossil Fuels sector — Repeals Biden-era clean-energy and clean-car policies, removing the regulatory support that favored fossil fuels' competitors.
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