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Richard W. Lozier Jr. (born January 2, 1944) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is an American infrastructure and regulation lawyer. He worked for a lobby group representing Energy Transfer Partners interests in the application for the controversial Bakken pipeline. He became a commissioner of the Iowa Utilities Board in 2017 and served until April 2023.
Richard W. Lozier Jr was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended the University of Iowa graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1966 and a Juris Doctor in 1969. He attended Exeter University, Exeter, England and was a Phi Delta Phi Secretary from 1968 until 1969. [1]
From 1969 until 1971 Lozier worked as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[ citation needed ] Since 1969, he has worked at Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn, law firm, Iowa. [1]
From 1986 to 1987 he was Polk County President, from 1976 to 1985 member of the Standards Committee, from 1987 to 1991 member of the Board of Governors, Iowa State and the American Bar Associations.
He represented the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now (MAIN Coalition), a lobby group in the Dakota Access application for the Bakken pipeline. [2]
In 2017, then governor Terry Branstad appointed him as a member of the Iowa Utilities Board. He was subsequently asked to recuse himself for the evident conflict of interest. [3] In June 2017, Lozier recused himself, leaving only two committee members to vote on matters. [4] Lozier´s IUB term expired in May 2023; it is unclear, why. As he was appointed by former governor Branstad, who has been working for the Summit Agricultural Group, which is seeking a permit for carbon capture pipeline to North Dakota he had a perceived conflict of interest, but he "at least had an open mind about this case", as critics have noted. [5]
Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He is the longest serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
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The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground pipeline in the United States that has the ability to transport up to 750,000 barrels of light sweet crude oil per day. It begins in the shale oil fields of the Bakken Formation in northwest North Dakota and continues through South Dakota and Iowa to an oil terminal near Patoka, Illinois. Together with the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline from Patoka to Nederland, Texas, it forms the Bakken system. The pipeline transports 40 percent of the oil produced in the Bakken region.
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