Biden taps ex-Obama official as Interior Department deputy
Associated PressWASHINGTON — The White House is naming Tommy Beaudreau, a former Obama administration official, to be deputy secretary at the Interior Department after dropping plans for a more liberal nominee who faced key Senate opposition. Murkowski and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who now heads that committee, opposed Biden’s plan to nominate former Interior Department official Elizabeth Klein as deputy secretary. Murkowski and Manchin told the White House they were concerned that the progressive Klein would not be a sufficient counterweight to new Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a former Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico who has criticized the oil and gas industry. The BLM oversees nearly a quarter-billion acres of public rangeland and wilderness, primarily in Western states She left Bullock’s office in 2017 for a senior post at the National Wildlife Federation, where she led the environmental group’s public lands conservation efforts and was an outspoken critic of Trump administration actions to expand oil and gas drilling and mining.
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