'Somebody Intervened in Washington' BY ALEC MACGILLIS

U.S. Chamber of Corruption
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In February, the Obama administration granted the ConocoPhillips oil company the right to drill in The Greater Mooses Tooth RESERVE as it is known, upending the protections that Bruce Babbitt,  Interior Secretary in the Clinton administration, had engineered, and  saving the oil company tens of millions. This set what conservationists see as a foreboding precedent. How ConocoPhillips overcame years of resistance from courts, native Alaskans, environmental groups and several federal agencies is the story of how Washington really works.