The full article is too long to post (IMO) even here, but the Washington Post claims to have been given a "secret list" of meetings and appointments prior to release of the new Bush Administration's "new energy policy."

Some names are included in the article, although the commentary is pretty much a "whitewash" of the effect from meetings held in secret with "energy industry people" to the exclusion of everyone else.

And it only took six years for the "truth" to come out(?).

Energy firms' role in policy?

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Many meetings held with companies before environmentalists approached

By Michael Abramowitz and Steven Mufson
The Washington Post
Updated: 4:53 a.m. CT July 18, 2007

At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new national energy policy, and the groups were getting their one chance to be heard.
Cheney was not there, but so many environmentalists were in the room that introductions took up "about half the meeting," recalled Erich Pica of Friends of the Earth. Anna Aurilio of the U.S. Public Interest Group said, "It was clear to us that they were just being nice to us."

A confidential list prepared by the Bush administration shows that Cheney and his aides had already held at least 40 meetings with interest groups, most of them from energy-producing industries. By the time of the meeting with environmental groups, according to a former White House official who provided the list to The Washington Post, the initial draft of the task force was substantially complete and President Bush had been briefed on its progress.

Names long withheld

In all, about 300 groups and individuals met with staff members of the energy task force, including a handful who saw Cheney himself, according to the list, which was compiled in the summer of 2001. For six years, those names have been a closely guarded secret, thanks to a fierce legal battle waged by the White House. Some names have leaked out over the years, but most have remained hidden because of a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that agreed that the administration's internal deliberations ought to be shielded from outside scrutiny.

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More at the link.

John