President Joe Biden s nominee for the second-highest position at the Department of the Interior has a list of potential conflicts of interest that rivals that of Trump administration Interior Secretary David Bernhardt , whose ties to industry and his revolving-door experience earned him labels like the ultimate D.C. swamp creature .

Bernhardt, a former fossil fuel lobbyist, first served as deputy secretary and in 2019 took over when Donald Trumps first interior secretary, Ryan Zinke , resigned. The number of issues he had to recuse himself from due to his past work was so extensive he carried around a card listing former clients .

Tommy Beaudreau, Bidens choice for deputy interior secretary, may very well need to do the same.

In a recent financial disclosure report , Beaudreau reported working for 35 clients over the last four years as an attorney and partner at the Los Angeles-based law firm Latham & Watkins. They include numerous companies with potential business before the Interior Department, from fossil fuel drilling and pipeline firms to offshore wind developers.

Beaudreaus list dwarfs the 17 clients Bernhardt named in his 2017 financial disclosure . Beaudreau also earned twice as much over the last year than Bernhardt did in the year before joining Trumps Interior Department. He brought in $2.4 million from Jan. 1, 2020, to March 17, 2021, compared with Bernhardts $1.1 million in 2016 .

To me, its pretty disqualifying, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. This is a massive amount of conflict, and frankly he has biases that I think are going to be difficult to reconcile.

The White House did not respond to HuffPosts request for comment. The Interior Department declined to comment.