LINCOLN- A former state agency director who successfully sued to halt a transfer of funds from the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 2020 is threatening to sue again. Jon Oberg, who once headed the Nebraska Department of Administrative Services, said a governor-proposed, legislatively embraced transfer of $15 million out of the state lottery-funded Trust to deal with the state budget shortfall is illegal, and if approved, would likely spur another lawsuit from him.

“We were hoping that it wouldn’t be tried again, but here we are,” Oberg said. He was referring to a 2020 lawsuit that led to the dropping of a proposal by the Trust to defund $1.8 million in conservation projects and instead award that money to install ethanol blender pumps at Nebraska gas stations. The lawsuit, filed by Oberg and W. Don Nelson, a former chief of staff under then Gov. Bob Kerrey, led to the dropping of the blender pump swap and an awarding of legal fees to Oberg and Nelson.

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