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You already know Elon Musk. You need to know Harold Hamm.

The billionaire oil tycoon's fingerprints are all over Trump's high-speed push to crush environmental regulation and renewables.

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Emily Atkin
Feb 12, 2025
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A symbolic "wanted poster" for Harold "Frackenstein" Hamm. Photo by John Senter/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

At a dinner for Big Oil executives last year, Donald Trump promised to give the fossil fuel industry essentially anything it wanted in exchange for $1 billion toward his re-election effort. The dinner was organized by Harold Hamm.

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