Activist organization accuses Trump of protecting methane-generating stripper wells to benefit billionaire and donor Jeffrey Hildebrand Alex Cuadros | ProPublica | June 19, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/19/activist-organization-accuses-trump-of-protecting-methane-generating-stripper-wells-to-benefit-billionaire-and-donor-jeffrey-hildebrand/ This story was originally published by ProPublica. It was before dawn on a Friday in January when a Gulfstream G600 with the burnt-orange Texas Longhorns logo on its tail landed at Dulles airport outside Washington, D.C. Its owner, a little-known oil billionaire named Jeffery Hildebrand, had been summoned to the White House.