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Hodel previously served on [[Focus on the Family]]'s Executive Board until 1998; former chairman, [[Independence Institute]]; founder and a Managing Director of Summit Group International, Ltd, including [[Summit Power Group]]; and was listed as Science Advisor for the [[global warming skeptic]] group [[Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change]].
He has served on many other energy company and public interest boards, including the Board of Directors of the Electric Power Research Institute and later its Advisory Council, [[American Electric Power]], Columbia Gas (later Columbia Energy Group), MAPCO, Taylor Energy Company, and [[Texon ]] Corporationwith [[James Watt]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Texon|title=About Us|url=http://www.texonlp.com/AboutUs/advisoryBoard.aspx|accessdate=2011-04-22|quote=Donald P. Hodel: Energy and Natural Resources Consultant. Under-Secretary (1981-82) and Secretary of the Interior (1985-89) and Secretary of Energy (1982-85) in the Reagan Administration. Previously: Administrator (CEO) (1972-78), Bonneville Power Administration; President of National Electric Reliability Council (1978-80); Member of a number of Boards of Directors of listed and non-listed for-profit company boards and charitable organizations.James Watt: Forty-four years in the government, public policy and legal arenas concerning energy and natural resources; President Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior (1981-83); Vice Chairman of the Federal Power Commission (1975-1977).}}</ref>. Mr. Hodel has also served as Deputy Administrator and Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration and as President of the National (now North American) Electric Reliability Council.
In 1995 joined the board of directors of the conservative publishing house [[Eagle Publishing]], the parent company of [[Regnery Publishing]].
Hodel and Christian Coalition spokesman [[Jeffrey Peyton]] purchased a liberal Virginia weekly newspaper in March 2000, ''The Charlottesville & Albemarle Observer'', and revamped the paper to espouse a shrill, hard-right viewpoint. Circulation plummeted, and the ''Observer'' ceased publishing in August 2004. [http://george.loper.org/~george/trends/2004/Aug/981.html]
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