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The Senate confirmed the former North Dakota Government, Doug Burgum, as Secretary of the Interior in a 79-18 vote, with most Senate Democrats joining all the Chamber Republicans.
Burgum, a unique candidate for the Subrogate of the Trump campaign, of 2024, the candidacy for Trump’s candidacy, has been one of the least controversial candidates of the President. Last week he advanced from the Senate Natural and Energy Resources Committee in an almost unanimous vote, with only sens. Ron Wyden (D-ort.) And Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) voting against the candidacy.
Wyden, the main idea of renewable energy credits within the Inflation Reduction Act, cited President Trump’s opposition to cuts in opposing both Burgum and Energy Secretary. , the Chris Wright candidate, who is also unlikely to face significant opposition from the Senate.
“I can’t support these candidates who carry out the Trump policies launched by the biggest advantages of America,” Wyden said last week.
As Secretary of the Interior, Burgum will oversee the environmental policy and public lands of the country. Trump has promised the trail of the campaign and in his first actions as president to expand the development of oil and gas and retreat environmental protections enacted by Biden’s administration. In the statements of his confirmation hearing, the former governor said support for these priorities, saying: “We live in a time of tremendous abundance and we can access this abundance prioritizing innovation on regulation.”
The vote comes the day after the Senate confirmed the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin in a 56-42 vote.
Unlike Trump, Burgum has recognized the existence of climate change and, while the governor set ambitious goals to make neutral northern Dakota carbon. However, in his confirmation audience, he also suggested that he would quickly monitor natural gas and coal development in federal lands to feed artificial intelligence data centers.
Despite the high levels of coal greenhouse gas emissions, Burgum suggested that it could be offset by the use of carbon capture, a new and largely not shown technology that was also fundamental in the plan of Burgum to make your state carbon status neutral.
