The Wall Street Journal reports that President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington to the position of Secretary of the Interior.
McMorris Rodgers has served in Congress for 12 years, and as a member of the GOP leadership, is currently the highest ranking female Republican in Congress.
The Interior Department has control over leasing of fossil fuels and renewable energy on millions of acres of federal lands and waters around the U.S. and conservation of national parks and forests. Mr. Trump has said he would work to review, and likely try to undo, much of what the agency has done over the past several years under President Barack Obama’s expansive regulatory agenda. The expected selection of Ms. McMorris Rodgers to head the Interior Department is helping complete an initial picture of what Mr. Trump’s energy and environmental agenda might look like. The president-elect nominated Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week, picking one of the leading state officials fighting the EPA in court. Both selections indicate Mr. Trump will follow through on his campaign promises to undo Mr. Obama’s regulations, though they are also not as far to the right as some have predicted Mr. Trump might go.
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