United States President Donald Trump appointed Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a lawyer who has previously represented British Petroleum (BP), to a top environmental and natural resource law position in the Department of Justice, the White House announced earlier this week. As a partner at lawfirm Kirkland & Ellis, Clark defended BP in the legal
Trump Appoints BP Oil Spill Lawyer As DOJ Environmental Attorney
Clark has previously attacked climate change laws as an erosion of “sovereignty,” and defended BP in one of the worst environmental disaster cases in U.S. history.