FOIA request to the Department of the Interior seeking communications between former Assistant Secretary Joe Balash and his new employer, Oil Search Ltd. American Oversight seeks information with the potential to reveal, at a minimum,
whether and to what extent the former Assistant Secretary afforded his new employer any preferential access or treatment in his official capacity, where he was responsible for land and minerals management. The public deserves confidence that DOI’s decisions relating to mining and energy have been made without undue outside influence. DOI-19-1174