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Caught Our Eye

National Resources staff director moves to lobby shop

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Jan. 16, 2019

A high-powered energy lobbying shop that operates largely under the radar has made a major hire from the Hill.

Cody Stewart, previously staff director to Rep. Rob Bishop's (R-Utah) Natural Resources Committee, is now senior vice president at National Environmental Strategies.

NES, which was co-founded in 1990 by former RNC Chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, lobbies mainly on energy issues. Marc Himmelstein, another NES co-founder and current president, reportedly enlisted help from Bishop and Utah Governor Gary Herbert to secure smog-requirement exemptions for Utah oil producers from Scott Pruitt, then EPA administrator, in July 2017. That was the same month that Stewart moved from a job as the governor's director of federal affairs to National Resources Committee staff director under Bishop.