True Colors

0 Comments | Insight on the News, July 23, 2001 | by Sean Paige

Those who accused the Clinton White House of being in bed with Green groups undoubtedly will find confirmation in the administration's aftermath. Several ex-officials quickly have found comfortable perches in their natural ideological surroundings.

Former U.S. Forest chief Mike Dombeck, a Clinton-era holdover who bailed on the Bush administration over policy differences -- meaning, one guesses, that the policy no longer would be dictated by Ouija boards and wood nymphs -- recently was named senior fellow at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). Also at the NWF is Jamie Rappaport Clark, Clinton's former director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife. He spearheaded administration policy concerning the Endangered Species Act -- and joined Dombeck in making endangered species of Americans working in resource-based industries.

And former energy secretary Bill Richardson recently was elected to the board of trustees of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Richardson, in tree Clintonian tradition, apparently is having it both ways. In addition to his post at the NRDC, he's also reportedly been appointed to the boards of two Texas oil companies.