Daniel Simmons

Daniel Simmons is the Director of State Affairs for the Institute for Energy Research, a Koch Industries-funded entity.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Simmons is the former Director of the Natural Resources Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

To see a list of ALEC's current and former staff, visit the ALEC Staff page.

Prior to coming to ALEC, he was a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University (GMU), another heavily funded think-tank of the Koch Family Foundations]. The Mercatus Center, according to [[Greenpeace USA, received over $9 million from the Koch Family Foundations between the years 2005 and 2009.

Simmons is also listed as an “Global Warming Expert” for the Heartland Institute.