(Note: Information is current as of Friday October 3, 2025)
Agency | Name | Position | Status | Affiliation | Category | Summary |
Department of Agriculture | Brooke Rollins | Secretary | Confirmed | America First Policy Institute; Texas Public Policy Foundation | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Rollins is a Texas native and alumna of the far-right, Trump-allied, conservative think tanks the America First Policy Institute and the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rollins started her career on Rick Perry’s gubernatorial staff and then joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a project of Tim Dunn, the former CEO of Texas oil company CrownQuest Operating, which he sold to Occidental Petroleum, reaping a $2.2 billion personal windfall. |
Department of Agriculture | Michael Boren | Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment | Nominated | Clearwater Analytics, Galena Mines, WestPass Ranch LLC | Other Corporate | Boren has been nominated to be the Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the Department of Agriculture. He founded investing firm Clearwater Analytics and associated with a number of other Idaho-based enterprises. Boren has had conflict with the U.S. Forest Service for years. The New York TImes reported that Boren, or companies associated with him, built unauthorized infrastructure on Forest Service land, endangered USFS crews, and impeded access to public lands, including in 2024, when a mining company then-registered to Boren cleared land and built an unauthorized cabin on USFS land outside of the company's mining rights. While Boren awaits confirmation at the Forest Service, he joined the Trump administration in September after being named an assistant secretary at the Interior Department. |
Department of Commerce | Annie Hawkins | General Counsel, NOAA | Appointed | Responsible Offshore Development Alliance | Other Corporate | Hawkins is the General Counsel for NOAA. She formerly led the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (RODA), a commercial fishing industries organization which she founded in 2017. RODA and Hawkins alike are anti-wind, and have spent years fighting offshore wind projects including the Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, and South Fork wind projects. Correspondence obtained through a public records request by E&E News indicates that Hawkins was included in an email about the Empire Wind project off New York, which the Interior Department halted, then allowed in spring 2025. RODA is at the heart of the anti-wind activist ecosystem, according to a 2023 report from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab. That study found that RODA has pursued significant collaboration with the Texas Public Policy Foundation in its attacks on wind and other renewables. |
Department of Energy | Chris Wright | Secretary | Confirmed | Liberty Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | Wright was previously the CEO of Liberty Energy, a hydraulic fracking company. He regularly makes public statements downplaying the effects of climate change, carbon pollution, and the environmental impacts of fracking. While Wright does not deny the existence of climate change, he argues that its importance is exaggerated, citing several climate skeptics with similar views. Wright is an evangelist for drilling more and exporting more U.S.-produced fossil fuels overseas. He has also spread a stream of inaccurate information about renewables, understating their overall contribution to global energy production and ignoring massive growth in the sector in recent years. |
Department of Energy | James P. Danly | Deputy Secretary | Confirmed | Skadden (Clients include NGAA, Southern Company, EPS, Exelon, etc) | Corporate Lawyer | Danly is currently Deputy Secretary at the Energy Department A former energy industry attorney, Danly has a long track record of advocating for, and defending, coal and gas interests. Danly was Chairman of FERC for a year between November 2020 and January 2021, and was an energy lawyer with law firm Skadden, Arps, according to his official biography. Danly routinely criticized federal clean energy incentives while speaking favorably on the role of coal and gas generation. In a recent confirmation hearing, Danly was also evasive on whether he would ensure climate and clean energy funds already approved by Congress would continue flowing. Disclosures from the Office of Government Ethics indicate Danly received $1.35 million from his partnership share in Skadden in 2024. While at Skadden, Danly represented oil, gas, electric, and fossil fuel related companies and organizations including the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, Electric Power Supply Association, Southern Company, Enterprise Products Partners LP, Exelon Corporation, PJM Power Providers Group, and LS Power. |
Department of Energy | Jonathan Brightbill | General Counsel | Confirmed | Winston & Strawn | Fossil Fuel Industry | A former partner with law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, Brightbill has been confirmed to be the general counsel of the Department of Energy. While at Winston & Strawn, Brightbill represented major methane gas exporters, including Golden Pass LNG, an export terminal in Texas co-owned by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil, according to a U.S. Department of Energy filing and another federal court document. Brightbill also served as legal counsel for Port Arthur LNG LLC, a company jointly owned by KKR, ConocoPhillips, and Sempra Energy. Brightbill headed up the Department of Justice’s environment division during Trump's first term, arguing a key case that limited the EPA's efforts to address climate change, as well as several other environmentally devastating actions. Brightbill also provided advice on the Trump administration’s effort to repeal the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding and has been an outspoken proponent of short-circuiting National Environmental Policy Act reviews, which seek to document the environmental impact of major projects and allow public input. Brightbill was also a key figure in the first Trump administration’s controversial use of emergency powers to seize land for the border wall. Brightbill has agreed to resign from activities involving known clients of his former firm, unless he secures an exemption. |
Department of Energy | Alex Fitzsimmons | Director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, Former Chief of Staff | Appointed | Fueling US Forward, Institute for Energy Research | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Fitzsimmons is an alumnus of the Institute for Energy Research, a Koch-funded organization that routinely attacks renewable energy and efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, Fitzsimmons also served as the head of communications for Fueling U.S. Forward, a short-lived pro-fossil fuel organization also funded by Koch dollars and other oil and gas interests, like the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. While there, Fitzsimmons routinely disparaged “green energy cronyism.” Notably, during the first Trump administration, Fitzsimmons was one of the people who helped kill the so-called “Supergrid,” an effort to build stronger connections between the country’s grid systems, which would facilitate the growth of clean energy and save consumers billions. Fitzsimmons began his career working for front group creator Berman & Company, run by Rick Berman, which often worked for the fossil fuel industry. Fitzsimmons also worked at ClearPath, which works on “conservative clean energy policy.” During that time, Fitzsimmons worked on a paper that praised a key Biden administration’s innovation, the Energy Department’s the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. That office “is a tremendous step forward for innovation and must become a permanent fixture in the federal structure,” the paper said. Under Trump, that same office has terminated billions in clean energy awards. |
Department of Energy | Andrea Woods | Deputy Director of Public Affairs | Appointed | American Petroleum Institute | Fossil Fuel Industry | Andrea Woods worked as Director of Media Relations for the American Petroleum Institute before joining the Trump Administration. She also worked as EPA Press Secretary under Trump during the first administration. |
Department of Energy | Catherine Jereza | Assistant Secretary for Office of Electricity | Nominated | Edison Electric Institute (EEI), EPRO | Utilities/Nuclear | Catherine Jereza was nominated to be the Assistant Secretary of Electricity at the Department of Energy. While waiting for confirmation, Jereza has been appointed to another job at the DOE as a Senior Advisor and Undersecretary for Infrastructure for the agency. Jereza was formerly a Vice President of Corporate Affairs at the electric utilities-funded research organization EPRI, whose Board includes representatives from the two most polluting utilities in the country, Southern Company and Duke Energy. Prior to her stint in Trump's first administration, Jereza also worked for the Edison Electric Institute, a national lobbying voice for utilities with anti-regulation and pro-privatization views. |
Department of Energy | (Preston) Wells Griffith | Undersecretary | Confirmed | FTI Consulting | Other Corporate | Griffith was confirmed to be the Under Secretary of Energy in September 2025. Per ProPublica, Griffith worked in a top role in the Energy Department during the first Trump Administration despite a lack of relevant experience. Griffith was named to a number of other roles during that administration, including positions at the National Security Council and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. Griffith’s LinkedIn suggests a deep background in Republican politics.. After his time in Trump’s administration, Griffith worked at FTI Consulting, which has worked for and with Big Oil. FTI also partnered with the Independent Petroleum Association of America to launch Energy in Depth, which PR Watch described as "a PR operation for the industry’s multi-billion dollar financial interests in ‘unconventional’ drilling” of natural gas." According to a filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Griffith's spouse is also employed by Exxon Mobil. Griffith has pledged to recuse from activities including FTI Consulting, Exxon, and other interests. |
Department of Energy | Audrey Robertson | Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Nominated | Liberty Energy, Goldman Sachs, Copper Trail Partners LLC, etc | Fossil Fuel Industry | Robertson has no background in renewable energy but co-founded the oil and gas company, Franklin Mountain Energy, which was sold to Coterra Energy in 2025. Robertson also worked at energy private equity firm Kayne Anderson, and has served on the board of several other oil and gas companies, including that of Energy Secretary Wright’s former firm Liberty Energy. In a January 2025 enforcement notice, the Environmental Protection Agency alleged that Franklin Mountain Energy violated the Clean Air Act, after EPA and New Mexico investigators identified widespread emissions violations among several companies. In her confirmation hearing, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) expressed concern about whether Robertson would derail energy efficiency and appliance regulations. Robertson has agreed to recuse from activities involving Liberty Energy, Franklin Mountain Energy, and more. |
Department of Energy | Audrey Barrios | Senior Advisor | Appointed | Liberty Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | Barrios is a Senior Advisor in the Department of Energy. She was previously the Director of External Affairs for Chris Wright's Liberty Energy, as per her LinkedIn profile. |
Department of Energy | Kyle Haustveit | Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Confirmed | Devon Energy, Fervo Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | Haustveit was confirmed to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy at DOE in September 2025. He was most recently an executive at oil and gas Devon Energy, and has a background in petroleum engineering." According to his LinkedIn profile Haustveit has also served as a Board member for geothermal company Fervo Energy since February 2024, an investment of Energy Chris Wright’s firm Liberty Energy. |
Department of Energy | Tristan Abbey | Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration | Confirmed | National Center for Energy Analytics (project of TPPF), Thiel firms, Energy Policy Research Foundation | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Abbey has been confirmed to be the Administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the Department of Energy. Abbey worked for the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA), a project of TPPF and a national energy think tank ostensibly dedicated to “reality-driven energy analyses.” The group says it produces “credible, unbiased research on energy issues, both proactively and reacting to and correcting misinformation about the ‘energy transition.’” Under administrations of both parties, the U.S. EIA has historically been an independent resource for the publication and analysis of energy data used by economists, energy market participants, environmental groups and the public at large. Previously, EIA’s leadership was drawn from academics and other industry experts, in part to maintain the integrity of the agency’s forecasts. Abbey started his career at hedge funds and venture capital firms founded by Trump insider Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital Management and Founders Fund. According to his LinkedIn profile, Abbey is also a Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Research Foundation, which says it is "a not-for-profit organization that studies energy economics and policy issues with special emphasis on oil, natural gas, and petroleum product markets." Abbey previously served in senior policy roles at the Senate and the White House during President Trump's first term. |
Department of Energy | Izzy Lamanna | Director of Scheduling | Appointed | Liberty Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | Lamanna is the Director of Scheduling at the U.S. Department of Energy. She previously was serving as the External Affairs Outreach and Assistant to the CEO (Chris Wright) at Liberty Energy. |
Department of Energy | Tala Goudarzi | Former Principal Deputy Secretary, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, | Appointed Now Departed | Edison Electric Institute; Sempra; Texas Oil&Gas Association | Fossil Fuel Industry | Tala Goudarzi worked at the Energy and Commerce Departments in relatively junior roles during the first Trump administration. She has advanced quickly through the ranks of Trump’s senior energy policy advisers. Before joining the second Trump administration, Goudarzi worked as an adviser to the Texas Oil & Gas Association, and Sempra Energy’s LNG export terminal construction subsidiary, which was previously led by Dan Brouillette, the Secretary of Energy in the first Trump administration. Goudarzi then followed Brouillette to the Edison Electric Institute, where Brouillette was CEO for less than a year amid internal discord. Goudarzi oversaw LNG export terminal approvals, which the Trump administration is expediting. Her former boss, Brouillette, formed a pro-Trump energy policy PR effort, the Restoring Energy Dominance Coalition, with former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. In October 2025, Goudzardi departed the Energy Department and is now a partner at the Torridon Group, a consulting firm led by Brouillette. |
Department of Energy | Andrew Rapp | Senior Advisor for International Relations | Appointed | Petrie Partners; Clients Include ExxonMobil; WEA; Cheniere; Tellurian | Fossil Fuel Industry | Rapp is the co-founder of Petrie Partners, a small investment advisory firm which advises on oil and gas financial transactions, including ExxonMobil’s acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources and numerous other oil and gas industry deals. Petrie has also served as a financial adviser for deals involving DOE-regulated liquefied natural gas export companies such as Cheniere Energy and Tellurian, which was bought by Australia-based Woodside Energy. Petrie also advised on Sable Offshore, a controversial offshore drilling restart project off the coast of California. One of Rapp’s former colleagues at Petrie Partiers bragged in February 2025 that Energy Secretary Chris Wright “is someone we know in Denver and expect to do great things dealing with policy.” Liberty Energy and Petrie’s Denver office are a few blocks apart. |
Department of Energy | Steve Winberg | Deputy Under Secretary for Infrastructure | Appointed, Now Departed | Fossil Energy; Consol Energy; Coalition for Gas-Based Environmental Solutions | Fossil Fuel Industry | During the first Trump term, Steve Winberg worked as Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy. He also formerly worked as a VP for the Pennsylvania-based coal and gas production giant Consol Energy, per his LinkedIn profile. While working for the Trump Administration during his first go-around, Winberg helped lead the push to create a petrochemical corridor in the region that would be funded by China called the Appalachian Storage Hub. He also championed coal while working for Trump. While he was at Consol, the company also pushed forward a major failed carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant called FutureGen, which Winberg chaired. During the 1990s, Winberg headed up the Coalition for Gas-based Environmental Solutions, "which aimed to lower the emissions standards for natural gas to match those for the coal and oil industries." Winberg left the second Trump administration in May 2025 and changed his LinkedIn profile to “retired again.” |
Department of Energy | Samuel Fodale | Deputy White House Liaison | Appointed | JC Fodale Energy Services | Fossil Fuel Industry | Samuel Fodale is DOE's Deputy White House liaison. Fodale's family owns the oil and gas services company JC Fodale Energy Services where he also briefly worked. Fodale has also worked for Upright Digital, a digital marketing firm that serves the energy industry. |
Department of Energy | Kevin Tatulyan | Chief of Staff for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Appointed | Seneca Resources | Fossil Fuel Industry | Kevin Tatulyan is the DOE's Chief of Staff for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. Tatylyan has been a staffer on Republican political ampaigns, and comes to the DOE from a Stakeholder Relations role at Seneca Resources, an exploration and production subsidiary of the National Fuel Gas Company. |
Department of Energy | John Christy | "Expert" | Appointed | Greening Earth Society, Heartland Institute | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | John Christy has been appointed as an "Expert" at the DOE. Christy is the Alabama state climatologist and a professor in the state, best known for being a climate skeptic who has continuously advocated against scientific consensus on manmade climate change. Christy has also been associated with fossil- and coal-backed organizations, like the now-defunct Greening Earth Society (created by the coal industry organization the Western Fuels Association), and the Heartland Institute, a fossil-backed climate disinformation organization. |
Department of Energy | Roy Spencer | Consultant | Appointed | Heartland Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Spencer, appointed as a "consultant" at the DOE is an Alabama-based scientist and climate skeptic who is also affiliated with the Heartland Institute, a fossil-backed climate disinformation organization. Spencer was also associated with the right-wing fossil-funded think tank the George C. Marshall Institute. |
Department of Energy | Steven E. Koonin | Special Government Employee | Appointed | BP | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Stephen Koonin has been appointed as a "Special Government Employee" at the DOE. Koonin is a physicist and professor who has long claimed that climate science is "unsettled." Koonin worked in the Obama White House as a science advisor, but came to the role after serving five years as oil-giant BP's chief scientist. Koonin is also associated with the American Enterprise Institute, a Koch-connected right wing think tank that has also taken significant funding from fossil fuel companies. |
Department of Energy | Rachael Overbey | Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Appointed | Revolution Energy Group; New Mexico Oil&Gas Association; Franklin Mountain Energy LLC; Emerald Oil | Fossil Fuel Industry | Rachael Overbey is the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at DOE. Overbey comes to the office after holding several oil and gas industry positions, including with the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association, Franklin Mountain Energy LLC, Emerald Oil, and more. Most recently, Overbey was a principal at Revolution Energy Group, a Texas-based energy services provider. |
Department of Energy | Anthony Pugliese | Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Chief Commercialization Officer | Appointed | Envision Strategy, LLC | Other Corporate | Anthony Pugliese is the Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization and the Chief Commercialization Officer at the DOE. Pugliese was previously a staffer in Trump's Department of Transportation, and Chief of Staff of FERC during the first Trump administration, but resigned from that role following improper comments implying he was aiding Department of Energy staff "on a plan to bail out coal and nuclear power plants." Following his time at FERC, Pugliese joined Envision Strategy, LLC a Washington based lobbying group. There, Pugliese has billed himself as an "energy, infrastructure and national security consultant." Though Pugliese does not seem to have a public client list available, disclosures from his first stint in the federal government show financial holdings in multiple industries, including in Canadian pipeline company TC (TransCanada) Energy. |
Department of Energy | Martin Perez | Former Associate Director for Carbon Capture, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, U.S. Department of Energy | Appointed, Now Departed | GE Capital; Shell Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | According to a bio for the hydrogen technology expo, Martin Perez was the Associate Director for Carbon Capture, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations within the DOE. Prior, Perez was the Senior Vice President of Investment Strategy at GE Capital, the investment arm of General Electric. Perez was also formerly the Head of Strategy for European gas and power at Shell Energy in London, and a senior consultant at McKinsey's Houston office. |
Department of Energy | Brandon Williams | Undersecretary for Nuclear Security/Administrator for Nuclear Security | Confirmed | Republican Politics | Brandon Williams is a former congressman from New York, whose reelection campaign saw significant donations from Texas-based billionaires, including more than $12,000 from Energy Transfer's Kelcy Warren and his wife. Syed Javaid Anwar, a founder of Midland Energy, also donated $4,100 to that campaign. Williams's nomination was criticized by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for his lack of technical knowledge, training, and experience related to the role. | |
Department of Energy | Dario Gil | Undersecretary for Science | Confirmed | IBM | Other Corporate | Dario Gil is a longtime IBM employee who has most recently served as the company's Director of Research and Senior Vice President. |
Department of Energy | Tim Walsh | Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management | Nominated | Confluence Companies | Other Corporate | Walsh, a real estate developer in Golden, CO, is a significant GOP donor, who donated over $220,000 to Republican candidates to various federal positions in between 2020 and 2024. The Colorado Times Recorder also reported that Walsh has also given "over a million dollars to Republican candidates for state and local offices in Colorado," most of which was funding for Walsh's own statehouse run in 2022. Walsh also sits on the board of PragerU, a climate-skeptic media organization funded also by significant donations from oil and gas billionaires like the Wilks brothers. Walsh also gave half a million dollars to the Koch Network's Stand Together. |
Department of Energy | Theodore Garrish | Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | Confirmed | Nuclear Energy Institute | Utilities/Nuclear | Theodore Garrish is nominated as assistant secretary of nuclear energy, an Energy Department alum of both the first Trump administration and the Reagan administration, per his LinkedIn. Garrish is also an alum of the nuclear industry, including a stint with Wolverine Nuclear Services, as well as with the Nuclear Energy Institute. Garrish is also an alum of CH2M, an environmental services company. |
Department of Justice | Patrick Davis | Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs | Confirmed | American Petroleum Institute | Fossil Fuel Industry | Confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, Davis worked for the American Petroleum Institute, U.S. Congress, Department of Justice. During President Trump’s first term, Patrick served as Deputy Associate Attorney General and worked as a trial attorney earlier in his career. On Capitol Hill, Davis was the Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, working for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and also served as the Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. |
Department of Justice | D. John Sauer | Solicitor General | Confirmed | Solicitor General, Missouri | Corporate Lawyer | D. John Sauer is Trump's pick for Solicitor General at the DOJ. Sauer was most recently Solicitor General for the state of Missouri, where he routinely attacked climate rules in court. During his time as Solicitor General of Missouri, Sauer served as Counsel of Record---along with a number of corporate counselors---on a number of anti-environmental suits. These include West Virginia v. EPA, a case that attacked the Obama-era Clean Power Rule, Sauer is listed along with counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (whose known members include Occidental Petroleum, Marathon Petroleum, and Chevron). |
Department of Justice | Aaron Reitz | Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy | Confirmed, Now Departed | Texas Public Policy Foundation; Claremont Institute | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Aaron Reitz was the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy of Trump's DOJ until he resigned to run for Texas Attorney General. Reitz came to the office from Ted Cruz's staff, where he was Chief of Staff from 2023 to 2025. A 2021 study found Cruz received more money from the oil and gas industry than any other Senator. Prior to that, Reitz worked in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, where he bragged about holding "accountable Wall Street and Silicon Valley interests that want to destroy the Second Amendment and Texas’s oil and gas industry." Reitz was also a fellow at the Claremont Institute, which has received funding from fossil fuel interests. Reitz also was once a Koch Summer Fellow with the fossil-backed Texas Public Policy Center's Center for Tenth Amendment Action, and is listed as the Chair of Austin LLC, or the Austin chapter of TPPF's networking project. Since leaving the DOJ, Reitz has already started collecting significant donations from the oil and gas industry, including a $25,000 donation from Texas oil billionaire, and board member of TPPF, Cody Campbell. |
Department of Justice | Lanora Pettit | Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel | Appointed | N/A | Republican Politics | Lanora Pettit, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice: Pettit joined the DOJ from the Texas Attorney General’s office, where she was most recently Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Principal Deputy Solicitor. Pettit started her career as a law clerk at the Ninth Circuit, and worked for two law firms before heading to Paxton’s office in 2019. Paxton has been entangled in numerous scandals in that office, including alleged misuse of office, retaliatory firings, and criminal misdeeds. Paxton is also closely aligned with the oil-backed Texas Public Policy Foundation and has routinely appeared at events for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Several members of TPPF’s board have donated huge sums to Paxton’s campaigns. Pettit has also appeared as counsel in cases also involving TPPF. Pettit argued dozens of cases on behalf of Paxton, including against health care access and reproductive autonomy and against core provisions of the Clean Air Act in Texas v. EPA. Pettit also defended Paxton’s attempts to disenfranchise other states in the 2020 Presidential Election in his misconduct investigation before the Texas State Bar. |
Department of Justice | Adam R.F. Gustafson | Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division | Appointed | Boeing; Cooper & Kirk; Boyden Gray & Associates | Corporate Lawyer | Adam Gustafson is the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice. He came to the role from defense contracting giant Boeing where he was the Senior Counsel for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs. Before that, Gustafson was the Deputy General Counsel in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the first Trump Administration, and he came to the role out of private practice at Boyden Gray & Associates' environmental, regulatory, and constitutional litigation department. While at Boyden Gray, Gustafson represented organizations such as those within the Koch-backed State Policy Network ecosystem. |
Department of the Interior | Katharine MacGregor | Deputy Secretary | Confirmed | Florida Power & Light; NextEra; Work with Bernhardt | Utilities/Nuclear | MacGregor is in her second stint as the second-ranking official at the Interior Department. During the first Trump Administration, MacGregor was a conduit for fossil fuel and mining interests to realize their extractive agenda. In 2019, according to the investigative outlet Reveal, MacGregor helped a former client of former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt secure oil and gas drilling permits from the Bureau of Land Management, though the company seeking the permits filed "deficient applications,” and “was later feted with invitations to VIP events by the former client." A former Republican House staffer, MacGregor already was a well known friend of the energy industry. in recorded remarks at a June 2017 meeting, the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s political director quipped that once MacGregor joined the Interior Department, “We’ll call Kate” became the association’s default solution to regulatory roadblocks. After leaving the first Trump administration, MacGregor worked at Florida utility firm NextEra Energy. |
Department of the Interior | Karen Budd-Falen | Associate Deputy Secretary | Appointed | Interior Dept., Mountain States Legal Foundation, Budd-Falen Law Offices | Corporate Lawyer | A Wyoming native and a longtime critic of federal land management policies, Karen Budd-Falen is a fifth-generation Wyoming rancher who has dedicated her career to attacking public lands. Budd-Falen was the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Department of the Interior until May 2025, and was appointed as an Associate Deputy Secretary of the agency in March. Budd-Falen has long advocated for the “county rights” or “county supremacy” movement, a fringe ideology that argues that county officials have the power to dictate what can be done on federal lands in their borders. She claimed in 2011 that the Endangered Species Act is “used as a sword to tear down the American economy, drive up food, energy and housing costs and wear down and take out rural communities and counties.” Budd-Falen also represented a group of Nevada ranchers including the anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy in a case about endangered species protections. Previously, Budd-Falen was a co-owner of a law firm in Wyoming with her husband, which “mainly represents private property owners, ranching and farming organizations, and local governments.” Budd-Falen is also an alumnus of the Reagan Administration’s Interior Department, and a former attorney for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.. |
Department of the Interior | William L. Doffermyre | Solicitor | Confirmed | Lake Charles LNG (owned by Energy Transfer) | Fossil Fuel Industry | A former energy industry executive, Doffermyre was confirmed as solicitor of the Department of the Interior, and a current senior advisor to the National Energy Dominance Council. Prior to this nomination, he served as the senior director and general counsel of Lake Charles LNG, a planned gas export terminal being developed by Energy Transfer, which was founded by the oil billionaire and close ally of Trump, Kelcy Warren. Politico reported that Doffermyre received a $790,000 severance payment from Energy Transfer, and that his salary at the company was no less than $2.2 million. Per Doffermyre’s ethics agreement, he has agreed to not participate in matters involving Energy Transfer unless authorized. |
Department of the Interior | Leslie Beyer | Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management | Confirmed | Energy Workforce & Technology Council (Members seem to include Liberty Energy, Halliburton, BakerHughes, ) | Fossil Fuel Industry | Leslie Beyer, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management: Beyer comes to the administration from Forum Energy Technologies, an oilfield services company. Prior to that, Beyer spent nearly a decade at the Energy Workforce & Technology Council, a national trade association for energy tech with leaders from oil and gas companies like Halliburton and Chris Wright’s own Liberty Energy. When she was nominated, WorldOil described Beyer as having played a “pivotal role in advancing the interests of the energy services sector and advocating for oil and gas as a driver of economic growth and energy security.” |
Department of the Interior | Lanny Erdos | Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement | Nominated | Cardinal Reclamation Company, LLC/VP; VP Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC; Ohio Coal Regulator | Fossil Fuel Industry | Lanny Erdos is Trump's pick to be the Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Erdos previously served in the department in the first Trump administration, but has spent the years since at Cardinal Reclamation Company, a mining company, working in their reclamation department, meant to clean and rehabilitate mined land. That company has been shown to be holding dozens of mines slated for reclamation that are years behind on their required cleanup timelines leaving surrounding communities in limbo. Erdos generally, is also a cheerleader for the industry, telling Senators that he hopes to see more mining and more coal during Trump's administration. |
Department of the Interior | Ned Mamula | Director, U.S. Geological Survey | Nominated | CATO; Anadarko Petroleum; Leonardo Technologies; GreenMet | Other Corporate | Ned Mamula was nominated to be the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey in February 2025. A bio on the CATO Institute's website says Mamula was a former adjunct scholar there, where "he worked to educate the media, Congress, government decision makers, academia, and the private sector on the need for strong, science-based policy positions that acknowledge our society’s growing energy and mineral resource needs. He also works to increase awareness of the opportunities and looming regulatory threats to the nation’s energy renaissance—and the negative consequences of politicizing the nation’s minerals and geoscience." Mamula's LinkedIn suggests he began his career at the U.S. Geological Survey before working at the Department of Energy, as an exploration geologist for Anadarko Petroleum, and then back at the USGS and the CIA. Mamula was on the DOI transition team after President Trump was elected to his first term. Mamula has also suggested that he wants to fast track mining on federal lands, including by opening new public lands to mining and expediting mine approval processes. |
Department of the Interior | Kenneth Stevens | Principal Deputy Director Exercising Authorities of the Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement | Appointed | CnHn Strategies, GE | Fossil Fuel Industry | Stevens is the Principal Deputy Director Exercising the Delegated Authorities of the Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. He previously was president and CEO of CnHn Strategies and an executive with GE Power and GE Aero Energy. CnHn Strategies is a Texas-based oil and refined products trading firm. Stevens served in Trump's first administration under Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and was appointed by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to the Texas Energy Plan Advisory Committee. |
Department of the Interior | Gregory Zerzan | Acting Solicitor (Nominated for General Counsel of the Department of Transportation) | Appointed | enCore Energy; Koch Industries | Other Corporate | Gregory Zerzan is Interior's current Acting Solicitor. Zerzan has held a number of positions in the federal government, including the Bush administration and the first Trump administration. and has most recently spent time in the private sector at Texas-based nuclear industry company, enCore Energy and at an employer law firm Fisher Phillips. Zerzan spent several years working as a lobbyist for Koch Industries as well as International Swaps and Derivatives Association. |
Department of the Interior | Matt Giacona | Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Acting Director BOEM | Appointed | National Ocean Industries Association | Fossil Fuel Industry | Giacona is the Principal Deputy Director, and current Acting Director, of the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, which oversees offshore oil and gas drilling activities in U.S.waters. Giacona, who was still a Capitol Hill intern at the start of the first Trump administration, worked as a lobbyist at the National Ocean Industries Association, an offshore drilling industry lobby group. NOIA’s Board of Directors includes such Big Oil heavyweights as Chevron, BP America, Exxon, TotalEnergies, and Shell. While at NOIA, Giacona lobbied on issues like the Endangered Species Act, leasing schedules, and other permitting issues.Public Domain reported in June that Giacona has been working on many of these same issues at BOEM, meeting in an official capacity with his former clients and former employer on policy issues. |
Department of the Interior | Adam Suess | Senior Counselor to the Secretary | Appointed | REH Company; Sinclair; Murphy USA | Fossil Fuel Industry | A former executive with REH Co, a branded gasoline and convenience store chain formerly known as Sinclair, Suess also worked at the gasoline wholesaling giant Murphy USA. While at REH, Suess was a lead attorney in the company’s fight against the Biden EPA’s renewable fuel standard, which sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Suess served as acting assistant secretary for land and minerals management before the confirmation of Beyer, another oil and gas industry alumnus. Suess has been active in lauding the administration’s proliferation, and attempted expediting, of oil and gas permits and mine approvals. The American Petroleum Institute has sung his praises in the role, noting that “Suess has taken critical steps to open access to future oil and natural gas development.” Suess also came under fire over the administration’s decision to block an under-construction wind farm project. |
Department of the Interior | Deidre Kohlrus | Director, Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs | Appointed | Energy Workforce & Technology Council | Fossil Fuel Industry | Kohlrus is the Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs at the Department of the Interior. Kohlrus comes to the role from serving as the Vice President of Government Affairs for the oil and gas industry-funded Energy Workforce & Technology Council, a national trade association for energy tech with leaders from oil and gas like Chris Wright’s own Liberty Energy and Halliburton. |
Department of the Interior | Noah Hoggatt | Deputy Solicitor, Parks and Wildlife | Appointed | Lobbyist for Cheniere; Entergy; Range Resources | Fossil Fuel Industry | Noah Hoggatt is the Deputy Solicitor, Parks and Wildlife in the Department of the Interior. Hoggatt was a lobbyist in Louisiana for companies such as LNG exporting giant Cheniere, fossil fuel utility Entergy, and fracking company Range Resources.Most recently, he worked as Executive Counsel for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. |
Department of the Interior | Kara Moriarty | Alaska Adviser | Appointed | Alaska Oil and Gas Association | Fossil Fuel Industry | Kara Moriarty is the Alaska Adviser to the Department of Interior. She comes to the role from being President and CEO of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, an industry association whose members include Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Shell, and more. |
Department of the Interior | Doug Burgum | Secretary | Confirmed | Sold company to Microsoft, Gov, of North Dakota, Close to Harold Hamm, leases farmland to Hamm for oil and gas drilling | Other Corporate | The former governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum has long been a conduit between oil and gas industry donors and the Trump campaign, and his own oil and gas ties are extensive. Burgum leases his own land for oil exploration to Continental Resources, run by close Trump ally Harold Hamm, and has often supported Hamm’s business interests, including backing a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline pursued by Hamm’s company. Burgum also helped shut down the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline (backed by Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer) in 2017. Burgum issued an evacuation order that “helped bring an end to the demonstrations,” and proceeded to sign four bills increasing criminal penalties for protesters, in an apparent attempt to chill Indigenous and environmentalist free speech. Burgum’s office also parroted oil company claims, including denying the use of water cannons on land defenders at the protest site. After shutting down the protest, Energy Transfer donated $1,500 to Burgum in 2018, again in 2019, and $25,000 in 2020. |
Department of the Interior | Andrea Travnicek | Assistant Secretary for Water and Science | Confirmed | National Water Resources Association, North Dakota Water Resources | Republican Politics | Andrea Travnicek was confirmed to be Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at Interior. She was previously the head of North Dakota's water resources department, serving in the role as a Burgum appointee during his gubernatorial tenure. Travnicek was also a State Association Representative member of the Board of Directors of the National Water Resources Association, an organization which represents agricultural and municipal water providers. NWRA has historically opposed NEPA, and water-related environmental regulation, including the Clean Water Rule. Travnicek worked in the first Trump administration as a deputy assistant secretary at Interior. |
Department of the Interior | Bill Groffy | Bureau of Land Management, Acting Director | Appointed | Colorado Oil and Gas Association, Ovintiv, Marathon Oil | Fossil Fuel Industry | A longtime oil and gas veteran, William Groffy is the Bureau of Land Management Principal Deputy Director and current Acting Director, heading up the Interior Department bureau charged with managing oil and gas leasing and permitting. Groffy has spent his career advocating for the interests of the oil and gas industry. He began working at Marathon Oil in 2008, where he worked in government relations and regulatory compliance. After his time at Marathon, he stayed in the industry working as an analyst at Ovintiv Inc. and its predecessor companies. In 2022, Groffy joined the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) as a Senior Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs. COGA has a long history of downplaying the health and environmental hazards of its members’ activities. |
Department of the Interior | Drue Pearce | Counselor to the Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management | Appointed | Holland&Knight | Corporate Lawyer | Drue Pearce is the Counselor to the Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management in the Department of the Interior. Pearce is a longtime oil and gas advocate in Alaska, and a former President of the Alaska Senate. When serving as a Department of Transportation official during the first Trump Administration, ProPublica found that Pearce's clients included Shell Alaska, whom she administered Arctic related consulting for. ProPublica also found that Pearce listed work as a lobbyist on behalf of Goldcorp, INC, a gold mining company. |
Department of the Interior | Jordan Christman | Senior Advisor to the Director Bureau of Ocean Energy Management | Appointed | American Petroleum Institute | Fossil Fuel Industry | Jordan Christman is the Senior Advisor to the Director Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Christman comes to the job from a federal relations role with the American Petroleum Institute. Prior to that, Christman worked in energy development at KE Andrews. |
Department of the Interior | Joe Stopper | Former Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary | Appointed, Now Departed | ATX Energy Company, Yorktown Partners LLC | Fossil Fuel Industry | Joe Stopper was formerly a Senior Director on Donald Trump's National Energy Dominance Council, and worked as a Senior Advisor in the Department of the Interior. Stopper has since left the administration for a new job with Ramaco Resources, a Wyoming-based mining company. Before his time in government, Stopper . He also worked at Yorktown Partners LLC, an energy-focused private equity firm and sat on the boards of a slate of energy companies, including ATX Energy Partners, a private equity backed U.S. drilling company, ƒStopper also was a board member for Windy Cove Energy, Evergreen Natural Resources, Pure Earth Plasma Holdings, and more |
Department of the Interior | Jeremy Arendt | Deputy Assistant Secretary | Appointed | Montrose Partners | Other Corporate | Jeremy Arendt is a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Interior. Arendt is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Montrose Lane, a company serving software companies that serve the energy industry. Arendt is also on the board of several energy industry companies, including HUVR, a tech and automation company with clients that appear to include BP, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil. Arendt is also on the board of Tachyus, another tech company seeking to serve the tech industry, with leadership from Chevron and Enbridge. |
Department of the Interior | Gregory Wischer | Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Mineral Management | Appointed | Dei Gratia Minerals; Westwin Elements | Other Corporate | Gregory Wischer is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Mineral Management at Interior. Wischer worked as a critical minerals consultant and is an alum of Westwin Elements, a commercial nickel refinery corporation. |
Department of the Interior | Linnea Melby | Senior Advisor, Bureau of Reclamation | Appointed | National Mining Association | Other Corporate | Linnea Melby is a Senior Advisor within the Bureau of Reclamation at the Department of Interior. Melby comes to the role from a Senate Staffer position to Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, a coal cheerleader. Prior to her time in Lummis' office, Melby was a Government Affairs Specialist at the National Mining Association. |
Department of the Interior | Tyler Hassen | Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget | Appointed, Allegedly Departed | Basin Holdings | Fossil Fuel Industry | Tyler Hassen was the Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and Budget at the Department of the Interior and was expected to leave the agency in August but remained there weeks later. Hassen led so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) operatives in their decimation of the department. the agency. Hassen previously was CEO of Basin Holdings, an oil rig company. |
Department of the Interior | Brenda Younkin | Advisor for Public Lands, Bureau of Land Management | Appointed | Y2 Consultants | Other Corporate | Brenda Younkin is an Advisor for Public Lands at the Bureau of Land Management. Younkin is an owner of the Jackson Hole-based Y2 Consultants, and has "worked closely in the past with ranchers on federal livestock grazing issues." Younkin has a more than 20 year history working with and advocating for ranchers and private landowners. |
Department of the Interior | Ronald Schindler | Counselor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Appointed | Pioneer Natural Resources | Fossil Fuel Industry | Ronald Schindler is a Counselor to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Schindler is an alum of Pioneer Natural Resources Company, a Petroleum company acquired in 2024 by Exxon, and of Anadarko Petroleum Company. Schindler was also an adjunct professor at the Colorado School of Mines. |
Department of the Interior | Smythe Anderson | Senior Advisor | Appointed | American Petroleum Institute, AEA | Fossil Fuel Industry | Smythe Anderson is a senior advisor at Interior, according to her LinkedIn page. Anderson comes to the federal government from the American Energy Alliance, which is the advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research, where Anderson was the Director of Government Relations and External Affairs. AEA and IER are Koch-backed organizations that have previously received fossil donations, and have aggressively advocated against climate action. Previously, Anderson was a lobbyist on tax and environmental issues for the American Petroleum Institute. Before that, Anderson worked for Chevron as a government affairs officer. |
Department of the Interior | Colton Buckley | Chief of Staff at USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service | Appointed | Turning Point USA, Breckenridge Economic Development Corporation, | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Colton Buckley is the Chief of Staff at the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. Early in his career, Buckley was a Field Director at the Koch-backed anti-environmentalist group, Americans for Prosperity. Later, Buckley worked for the Turning Point USA, the campus culture-wars project headed by Charlie Kirk that also routinely uplifts climate skepticism and skeptics. Turning Point also has taken fossil fuel funding, and has robust ties to the Koch's dark money network. |
Department of the Interior | Kristin Repass | Director for Scheduling and Advance | Appointed | TC Energy | Fossil Fuel Industry | Kristin Repass is the Director for Scheduling and Advance at Interior. Repass comes to the job from a stint as an External Relations officer with TC Energy. |
Department of the Interior | Stephanie Holmes | Chief Human Capital Officer, Allegedly Dep | Appointed, Allegedly Departed | Oklo | Utilities/Nuclear | Stephanie Holmes was the Chief Human Capital Officer at the Department of the Interior. Holmes previously was working as an HR expert in Elon Musk' s DOGE. Holmes previously worked at Oklo, a nuclear energy startup that Chris Wright previously sat on the board for. |
Department of the Interior | Kevin Lilly | Acting Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks | Appointed | Avalon Advisors, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley | Other Corporate | Kevin Lilly spent decades in the financial sector, most recently at Avalon Advisors, which he helped found. Avalon is the largest privately owned wealth management firm in Texas. Prior to that, Lilly worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Lilly was also appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in 2017 to head the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. His apparent lack of experience running parks has rankled critics. |
Department of the Interior | Scott Cameron | Acting Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation | Appointed | Interior Department, Dawson and Associates, R3 Government Solutions. | Other Corporate | Scott Cameron was named as acting commissioner Bureau of Reclamation after the Trump administration withdrew its prior nominee. Cameron was previously a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the first Trump administration, and is also an alum of George W. Bush's Interior Department. He has long government experience working on water issues and also worked as a lobbyist and an elected water official in Virginia .Cameron was senior advisor at Dawson and Associates, where he specialized in advising private sector clients with federal environmental requirements. While in the first Trump administration, Cameron was part of the team at Interior that worked to keep a coal plant alive at Peabody Energy's request. In 2022, he opined against “unintended consequences” of sustainability policies and other “well intentioned efforts to curb climate change.” |
Department of the Interior | Matt Luby | Adviser in the department’s Office of Policy, Management and Budget | Appointed | Republican Politics | Matt Luby worked for his childhood friend, Vivek Ramaswamy, for a number of years, including transitioning into a role at DOGE as Tyler Hassen's "right-hand man" while wreaking havoc at Interior. | |
Department of Transportation | Ben Kochman | Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Deputy Administrator; Acting Administrator | Appointed | Interstate Natural Gas Association of America | Fossil Fuel Industry | Ben Kochman is the Acting Administrator for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) at the Department of Transportation. Kochman was previously the Director of Pipeline Safety Policy at the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. INGAA's members include gas and pipeline industry giants such as Cheniere, Enbridge, TC Energy, Southern Company, PG&E and more. |
Department of Transportation | Keith Coyle | Chief Counsel for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | Appointed | Babst Calland | Corporate Lawyer | Keith Coyle is the Chief Counsel for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Prior, Coyle was a lawyer at Babst and Callard, where he litigated against pipeline safety rules on behalf of the pipeline industry. Coyle's clients included the GPA Midstream Association, whose board of directors include representatives from Energy Transfer, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Phillips66, and more. Coyle also represented the American Petroleum Institute. |
Department of Transportation | Emily Wong | Director of Governmental, International, and Public Affairs for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | Appointed | American Petroleum Institute | Fossil Fuel Industry | Emily Wong is the Director of Governmental, International, and Public Affairs for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Wong comes to the role from a federal relations job at oil and gas advocacy organization, the American Petroleum Institute, and before that was the director of government affairs at the American Public Gas Association. |
Department of Transportation | Sean Duffy | Secretary | Confirmed | BGR Government Affairs | Republican Politics | A former reality television star, member of Congress, and Fox News personality, Transportation Secretary Duffy has been an enthusiastic MAGA spokesman. Duffy has brought an aggressive, highly politicized TV pundit style to the government, using the Transportation Department’s authority to attack the wind energy industry and promote fossil fuels, while attacking the Biden administration. Duffy has also disparaged electric vehicles and spouted fearmongering misinformation about safety on the New York City subway. Duffy appeared with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and offered to have DOGE find inefficiencies in the subway system’s management. Though Duffy appears to spend much of his time owning the libs on television, he is currently serving as acting administrator of NASA, where he announced plans to build a small nuclear reactor on the moon. |
Department of Transportation | Paul Roberti | Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration | Confirmed | Ernst&Young | Other Corporate | Paul Roberti is the nominee to be the Administrator for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Roberti has been an advisor in the division of public utilities and carriers in Rhode Island, and has also served in Rhode Island's Attorney General's office. Roberti has also spent a number of years at the law firm Ernst & Young, where he worked on the firm's natural gas, power and utilities sector portfolios. Roberti listed a number of investments in oil and gas giants like Enbridge, Inc., Southern Company, Dominion Energy, Inc in his ethics disclosure. |
Department of Transportation | Steven Gill Bradbury | Deputy Secretary | Confirmed | Kirkland & Ellis; Dechert; Heritage Foundation | Corporate Lawyer | Steven Gill Bradbury is an alum of the first Trump administration when he served as the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation. Bradbury is a corporate lawyer who has lobbied on behalf of industry clients in front of the Department of Transportation, as per his financial disclosures, and most recently served as a "Distinguished Fellow" from the Koch-backed Heritage Foundation. While there, Bradbury is named as a contributor to Project 2025. Bradbury's disclosures from the first Trump Administration also reveal connections with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose board has included execs from "Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips Shell" and more. |
Department of Transportation | David Fink | Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration | Nominated | Pan Am Railway | Other Corporate | David Fink is the former CEO of PanAm Railway, which was acquired by CSX in 2023. PanAm has frequently violated environmental and safety laws, and otherwise come under fire from the very agency Fink is now poised to lead. Fink's financial disclosures reveal further entrenchment in the industry; including investments in railway giants Canadian Pacific Railway, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific as well as ExxonMobil. |
Department of Transportation | Peter Simshauser | Chief Counsel, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator | Appointed | Motional | Other Corporate | Simshauser comes to NHTSA from being General Counsel and Secretary of Motional, a self-driving vehicles venture from Aptiv PLC and Hyundai Motor Group. |
Department of Transportation | Sean McMaster | Administrator, Federal Highway Administration | Confirmed | Boeing; HNTB | Other Corporate | McMaster worked for years as an executive at both the aerospace company, Boeing, and as a former vice president with infrastructure consulting firm HNTB. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Alex Dominguez | Deputy Assistant Administrator | Appointed | American Petroleum Institute (clients include NRG) | Fossil Fuel Industry | Alex Dominguez, Deputy Assistant Administrator, A former aide to Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH), Dominguez worked at the EPA under the first Trump administration, then worked for the American Petroleum Institute lobbying the government against electric vehicle subsidies and alternative fuels. He left API to work for the lobbying firm Massie Partners, where he represented energy and biofuels clients including NRG Energy, ONEOK, JERA Co and more. E&E News reported that Dominguez recused himself from work involving several former clients. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Lee Zeldin | Secretary | Confirmed | Republican Politics | Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator: A former Republican congressman representing part of Long Island N.Y., Zeldin has launched a comprehensive attack on the EPA’s ability to function. Under his leadership, the agency has laid off thousands of workers, eliminated the EPA’s scientific research office, and undermined climate science and regulation. Zeldin ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York in 2022 as a Trump supporter who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 election while a Congressman. In an at least decade-old interview about climate change, Zeldin said that he was "not sold yet on the whole argument that we have as serious a problem as other people are.” Zeldin generally had a track record of anti-environmental votes, though he voted against legislation that would actively block the EPA from mitigating climate change. | |
Environmental Protection Agency | David Fotouhi | Assistant Secretary | Confirmed | GibsonDunn | Corporate Lawyer | David Fotouhi, Deputy EPA Administrator: A former lawyer at Gibson Dunn, a corporate law firm that has represented oil and gas clients including American Petroleum Institute, Energy Transfer, Enbridge, ConocoPhillips and others, Fotouhi’s career has focused on securing regulatory rollbacks for corporate clients. Fotouhi was a member of the firm’s environmental litigation practice and defended companies accused of violating emissions standards. ProPublica reported that Fotouhi “played a key part in rolling back climate regulations and water protections while serving as a lawyer in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.” Fotouhi was part of the EPA legal team that defended the repeal of the Clean Power Plan and worked directly on EPA’s revised regulatory definition of “Waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. Fotouhi's financial disclosure report shows he received nearly $3.2 million in income from Gibson Dunn in 2024 as a partner. Fotouhi lists the following companies as sources of income: Aethon Energy Management, Air Products and Chemicals, Chevron, Cibolo Energy Partners, Energy Transfer Partners, Vistra Corp, Sunoco Pipeline, and ETC Northeast Pipeline, among others. Fotouhi has agreed to resign from activities involving his former firm and companies he has recently divested from. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Aaron Szabo | Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation | Confirmed | CGCN; Duke Energy; AFPM; Chemours | Fossil Fuel Industry | Aaron Szabo, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation: A former lobbyist, Szabo represented the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and American Petroleum Institute trade associations, along with many other fossil fuel trade groups and companies. During the first Trump administration, he worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Management and Budget, where he worked on the repeal of numerous air quality rules and replaced them with weaker, industry-friendly versions. In a 2022 paper for the America First Policy Institute titled “The Need to Refocus International Efforts on Traditional Air Pollutants,” Szabo and his co-author wrote that “the damage that the myopic focus on climate change has done even within the environmental sphere is often overlooked, diverting attention and resources from critical avenues for real progress.” Szabo’s lobbying clients included API, American Chemistry Council Duke Energy, TransCanada, Exelon, and Tellurian, per his lobbying disclosures. Szabo is also a credited contributor to the EPA chapter of Project 2025, but under questioning by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Szabo repeatedly asserted that he had “no records” of that work. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Jeffrey Hall | Nominated Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance | Nominated | Burke Law Group | Corporate Lawyer | Jeffrey Hall is the Nominee to be the Assistant Administrator of OECA and is the Currently Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator of OECA. Prior to his time in Trump's administration, Hall was a Founding Partner at Burke Law Group, where he litigated against clean air regulations. Hall represented the state of Louisiana in anti-clean air act case Texas v. EPA, a case which was celebrated by a number of fossil interests, including the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers and the Texas Oil&Gas Association. During the first Trump administration he worked for the Department of Justice |
Environmental Protection Agency | Usha-Maria Turner | Assistant Administrator for International and Tribal Affairs | Nominated | Chesapeake Energy; Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company | Fossil Fuel Industry | Usha-Maria Turner was nominated to be Assistant Administrator at the EPA in March 2025. Turner worked as chief sustainability officer at Chesapeake Energy, formerly one of the largest fracking companies in the U.S. now named Expand Energy. Turner also worked in a public policy role at Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. She also worked at utility firm Luminant Energy Power, according to her Linkedin profile. |
Environmental Protection Agency | John Busterud | Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste | Nominated | PG&E | Utilities/Nuclear | John Busterud is the Assistant Administrator in the Office of Solid Waste at the EPA. Busterud is an alum of Donald Trump's first EPA, and came to the position from three decades at PG&E. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Jessica Kramer | Assistant Administrator for Water | Confirmed | Talos Energy; Duke Energy; LG Chem | Fossil Fuel Industry | Jessic Kramer was nominated to be an Assistant Administrator of the EPA in February 2025. According to The Hill, "Kramer has lobbied on behalf of water utility trade organizations, as well as oil and gas company Talos Energy, utility Duke Energy and LG Chem." |
Environmental Protection Agency | Abigale Tardif | Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation | Appointed | Marathon Petroleum, AFPM lobbyist; | Fossil Fuel Industry | Tardif came to the EPA straight from a government affairs job with Marathon Petroleum, where she lobbied against policies like tailpipe emissions standards. She also spent a year with the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers trade group, which partners with Big Oil to attack climate and environmental regulations. Tardif worked for Americans for Prosperity, a libertarian, Koch-backed think tank opposed to environmental action. In April, ProPublica reported that Tardif directed staff to write rules eliminating reporting requirements that mandate most industries to submit data to a federal program that publicly records the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate-warming gases emitted by individual facilities. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Nathaniel Tisa | Deputy General Counsel | Appointed | GibsonDunn | Corporate Lawyer | Tisa is a former junior associate at Gibson Dunn, slammed at a recent US Senate hearing by Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse for lack of any in-depth legal experience. Tisa also represented chemical trade associations in litigation against EPA regulations. Tisa also represented clients with known polluter ties such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation. Gibson Dunn is a law firm with close ties to the fossil fuel industry and controversial ones to Chevron in particular. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Steven Cook | Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management | Appointed | LyondellBasell; Bracewell LLP | Other Corporate | Cook was previously in-house counsel at LyondellBasell, a large, multi-national chemical and refining company, according to his EPA bio. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Nancy Beck | Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator | Appointed | American Chemistry Council; Hunton Andrews Kurth | Other Corporate | Beck's prior employment includes: the American Chemistry Council. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Office of Management and Budget, EPA, White House. She is a longtime chemical industry lobbyist and former Trump administration official who has long worked to scale back chemical regulations and other public protections. Beck’s nomination in 2020 to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission failed under the first Trump administration amid bipartisan opposition. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Lynn Ann Dekleva | Deputy Assistant Administrator | Appointed | American Chemistry Council, DuPont | Other Corporate | Lynn Ann Dekleva is a Deputy Assistant Administrator at the EPA. Dekleva previously worked at the American Chemistry Council and worked at the EPA in the first Trump administration. Before that, Dekleva spent many years at chemical company DuPont. Dekleva led a chemical industry campaign against the ban of formaldehyde, which can cause cancer and severe respiratory problems and now leads an office with the power to approve new chemicals for use, the New York Times reported. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Catherine Paige Hanson | Chief Financial Officer | Confirmed | Tax Foundation; Common Sense Society; Global Business Alliance | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Hanson is an alum of the conservative think tanks the Tax Foundation (affiliated with the Koch-backed State Policy Network), the Common Sense Society, and the Global Business Alliance, whose board members include a Shell executive. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Dipka Bhambhani | Senior Adviser, Public Affairs | Appointed | ExxonMobil, Forbes, Electric Power Research Institute | Fossil Fuel Industry | . Bhambhani is an alum of a number of conservative news outlets, like the Daily Caller, as well as of energy industry institutions, including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and ExxonMobil. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Wynn Radford IV | Chief of Staff for the EPA Region 6 | Appointed | BP | Fossil Fuel Industry | Wynn Radford IV is the Chief of Staff for the EPA Region 6. Radford was previously a spokesman for oil giant, BP. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Mallory Richardson | Senior Advisor for the Office of Policy | Appointed | National Association of Manufacturers, Chemours, Squire Patton Boggs, U.S. Chamber | Other Corporate | Richardson was previously a public policy advisor with Squire Patton Boggs, but has also held roles with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chemical company Chemours, and the National Association of Manufacturers, whose board includes representatives of ExxonMobil, Devon Energy, Southern Company, and more. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Kyle Kunkler | Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs | Appointed | American Soybean Association | Other Corporate | Kunkler "most recently worked as director of government affairs, with a focus on pesticides, for the American Soybean Association. He lobbied members of Congress on pesticide policy and other farm topics as recently as earlier this year. At its 2020 annual meeting, CropLife America, the trade association that represents the country’s largest agrichemical companies, presented Kunkler with its 'Rising Star Award.'" |
Environmental Protection Agency | Sean Donahue | General Counsel | Confirmed | Corporate Lawyer | Confirmed by the Senate in May 2025 despite a thin record of legal work, Sean Donahue worked in the first Trump administration EPA for three years, then worked for a regional law firm in Buffalo, N.Y., then for a solar energy company. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) called Donahue “a truly preposterous nominee” citing a lack of legal experience. “Mr. Donahue may be the most unfit nominee ever for any federal agency’s general counsel,” Whitehouse said, adding that “He has never tried a case to verdict, never taken a deposition, never signed a pleading, and never argued a motion. He has never personally litigated any case—let alone federal cases implicating our nation’s most important environmental laws.” At his confirmation hearing, Donahue said he worked for the law firm for 18 months before being fired. Donahue's partner, Trent Morse, works in the White House as deputy director of presidential personnel and is alumnus of the Trump-connected lobbying firm, Ballard Partners. A Trump administration official told Inside Climate News that “There is no conflict of interest. Trent Morse recused himself from anything related to Sean Donahue. Administrator Zeldin selected Sean, who went through the exact same interview process as other candidates.” | |
Environmental Protection Agency | William “Chad” McIntosh | Former Acting Deputy Administrator; now International Boundary and Water Commission | Appointed | Ford Motor Company | Other Corporate | William "Chad" McIntosh is an alum of the first Trump administration, where he was an Assistant Administrator of EPA's Office of International and Tribal Affairs. McIntosh was also a longtime Ford Motor Company executive. During his tenure at Ford, McIntosh was accused of overseeing an industrial disaster that contaminated groundwater in a Michigan suburb with cancer causing chemicals. |
Environmental Protection Agency | Douglas Troutman | Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances | Nominated | American Cleaning Institute | Other Corporate | Troutman has spent nearly 18 years at the American Cleaning Institute, an industry advocacy association for the cleaning products industry. ACI has previously advocated for a deregulatory agenda for household chemicals, and its board includes representatives from chemical giants like Dow Inc and Shell Chemicals. |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Laura Swett | Member | Swett | Vinson & Elkins | Corporate Lawyer | Laura Swett was confirmed as a member to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Swett was previously an energy lawyer at Vinson & Elkins where she represented pipeline and power companies in cases before FERC. |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | David LaCerte | Commissioner | Confirmed | Baker Botts | Corporate lawyer | LaCerte was confirmed as a FERC member in October 2025. A Project 2025 author, LaCerte served as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs under former Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, resigning amid allegations of poor conditions in nursing homes. After a state auditor accused LaCerte of misusing public funds, LaCerte disputed the auditor’s findings then filed a lawsuit accusing the state auditor of defamation, and that case has dragged on in court for several years over whether a trial should be allowed to proceed, with an appeals court overturning in May 2025 a lower court’s decision to toss out the case. LaCerte worked in the first Trump administration at the Office of Personnel Management and was appointed to the the U.S. Chemical Safety Board at the end of Trump’s first term. LaCerte has also worked at law firms Baker Botts and Sternberg, Naccari & White, according to his Linkedin profile. At Baker Botts, LaCerte and other lawyers won an award for pro bono work from giant industrial conglomerate Koch Inc. and posed in a picture with CEO Charles Koch. |
White House | Evan Rogers | Policy Adviser, White House National Energy Dominance Council, Energy Department Adviser | Appointed | Alabama Power | Utilities/Nuclear | Evan Rogers is a policy advisor at the White House's National Energy Dominance Council and a special assistant at the Energy Department. Rogers comes to the role from Alabama Power, the utility monopoly in Alabama and the state subsidiary of Southern Company. Alabama Power is also a significant polluter, with its facilities poisoning groundwater with toxic coal ash and topping charts for being the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in the U.S.. Southern Company has also suppressed renewables in the state, and has been a recipient of taxpayer funding to test out unproven carbon capture projects.
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White House | Brittany Kelm | Senior Policy Advisor at the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council. | Appointed | Shell | Fossil Fuel Industry | Kelm was the Senior Policy Advisor for the Interior Department’s Office of Land and Minerals Management until May, and now is a Senior Policy Advisor at the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council. Kelm has spent her entire career working in Big Oil, most recently doing Corporate relations for Shell, and previously in policy for Valero, Community Affairs for Noble Energy, and other roles for Texas-based oil companies like EnCore Permian and the Permian Basin Petroleum Association. |
White House | Justin Schwab | General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality | Appointed | CGCN | Corporate Lawyer | Justin Schwab is General Counsel for the Council on Environmental Quality. Schwab is also the founder of CGCN Law, a law practice in DC focusing on environmental, energy, and administrative law that has a "strategic relationship" with CGCN Strategies, a DC lobbying firm. Though not registered to lobby Schwab was working for and on behalf of industry clients during his time at CGCN, including in appearing on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute at an EPA "stakeholder meeting." |
White House | Stuart Levenbach | Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, Science, and Water | Appointed | BakerHughes | Fossil Fuel Industry | Levenbach is the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, Science, and Water at the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to OMB, Levenbach worked at oil and gas services company Baker Hughes as director of government affairs and public policy for the Americas region. He worked at OMB and the Council on Environmental Quality during the first Trump administration. |
White House | Trent Morse | Deputy Director, Office of Personnel | Appointed, Now Departed | Ballard Partners | Fossil Fuel Industry | Trent Morse was the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel is a former lobbyist for Ballard Partners, whose clients include fossil fuel utility giant NextEra Energy and Big Oil giant Chevron. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is also a Ballard Partners alum. Wiles called Morse “an important and integral part of the successes we’ve had” as Morse left the White House to launch his own lobbying firm after less than nine months on the job. |
White House | Jarrod Agen | Deputy assistant to the president, Executive director of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council | Appointed | Lockheed Martin | Republican Politics | During the first Trump administration, Agen worked as a top aide and spokesman for former Vice President Mike Pence and now is executive director of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council. A marketing and public relations executive and longtime Republican public affairs official, Agen is also an alum of Lockheed Martin, where he worked in marketing and advertising. Agen has no public record of energy sector experience. |
White House | David Copley | National Security Council | Appointed | Newmont Corp. | Other Corporate | David Copley is a member of the National Security Council in the White House. Copley is the White House's top mineral adviser, and previously worked at U.S. Silica, a minerals producer acquired last year by private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Most recently, Copley worked in a strategic development role at the Newmont Corp, one of the world's largest gold mining corporations. |
White House | Blake Deeley | Deputy Executive director of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council | Appointed | American Clean Power Association | Other Corporate | Blake Deeley is Deputy Executive Director of the National Energy Dominance Council. He is a former lobbyist for the American Clean Power Association and a former Republican Capitol Hill aide. ACP’s members have been at odds with the Trump administration over its anti wind power policies, warning that “federal chaos” is deterring clean power investment. ACP is also a big campaign spender on behalf of Republicans and backed pro-polluter permitting legislation, only to have those same GOP lawmakers enact a sweeping repeal of the Biden administration’s landmark clean energy programs. ACP’s membership also includes a slate of companies whose energy portfolios are predominantly made up of fossil fuels but also have renewables |
White House | Nick Elliot | Senior Policy Adviser, National Energy Dominance Council | Appointed | Morgan Stanley, Energy Arbitrage Partners, Swire Bulk, Telysium Energy Brookfield Renewable | Other Corporate | Nick Elliot is a longtime Morgan Stanley who left the firm in 2015 for a number of roles at energy-related firms, including Energy Arbitrage Partners, Swire Bulk, Telysium Energy and Brookfield Renewable. |
White House | Oliver McPherson-Smith | Former Executive Director, National Energy Dominance Council | Appointed, Now Departed | America First Policy Institute | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Oliver McPherson-Smith worked at the Trump White House for three months before joining a Houston oil and gas company. He was formerly the Executive Director for the National Energy Dominance Council. Prior to that, McPherson-Smith was the Director for the Center for Energy & Environment at the America First Policy Institute. |
White House | James Sherk | White House Domestic Policy Council | Appointed | America First Policy Institute | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | James Sherk was formerly a member of the National Domestic Policy Council. Prior to that, Sherk was the Director for the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute where he frequently attacked clean air regulation and EV policies. |
White House | Daniel Jorjani | Special Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Counsel | Appointed | CitizensUnited | Fossil Fuel/Climate Skeptic Think Tank | Jorjani is coming to the role from conservative think tank Citizens United, where he was General Counsel. Jorjani was Solicitor of the Interior during Trump's first administration. Prior to his time in Donald Trump’s first administration, Jorjani worked with Koch brothers-controlled groups including Freedom Partners as recently as 2017, as noted in his resume provided to the Department of Interior. Jorjani’s financial disclosures show he left Freedom Partners as of April 2017, albeit with a benefits plan to receive $45,000 per year starting at age 65. PR Watch reported that, according to 2011 tax filings, Jorjani was one of the highest paid employees of the Charles Koch Institute where he worked as director of research. He also worked as a program officer for research at the Charles Koch Foundation. From 1999 to 2001, Jorjani worked as a corporate associate for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld where he ‘Advised clients active in making energy investments in Russia and Central Asia.’ OpenSecrets documents that the firm received $12,900,000 in lobbying income in 1999 alone, with clients including mining and energy companies as well as oil giant ExxonMobil.” |
Agency | Name | Position | Direct Polluter Ties? |
Environmental Protection Agency | Lee Zeldin | Administrator | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | David Fatouhi | Deputy Administrator | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | Aaron Szabo | Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | Jeffrey Hall | Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | Usha-Maria Turner | Assistant Administrator for International and Tribal Affairs | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | John Busterud | Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | Jessica Kramer | Assistant Administrator for Water | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | Douglas Troutman | Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances | Y |
Department of the Interior | Doug Burgum | Secretary | Y |
Department of the Interior | Katharine MacGregor | Deputy Secretary | Y |
Department of the Interior | William L. Doffermyere | Solicitor | Y |
Department of the Interior | Leslie Beyer | Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management | Y |
Department of the Interior | Lanny Erdos | Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement | Y |
Department of the Interior | Ned Mamula | Director, U.S. Geological Survey | Y |
Department of Energy | Chris Wright | Secretary | Y |
Department of Energy | James Danly | Deputy Secretary | Y |
Department of Energy | Jonathan Brightbill | General Counsel | Y |
Department of Energy | Wells Griffith | Undersecretary | Y |
Department of Energy | Dario Gil | Undersecretary for Science | Y |
Department of Energy | Catherine Jereza | Assistant Secretary for Office of Electricity | Y |
Department of Energy | Audrey Robertson | Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | Y |
Department of Energy | Tim Walsh | Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management | Y |
Department of Energy | Kyle Haustveit | Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management | Y |
Department of Energy | Theodore J. Garrish | Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy | Y |
Department of Energy | Tristan Abbey | Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration | Y |
Environmental Protection Agency | No Nominee | Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention | no nominee |
Environmental Protection Agency | No Nominee | Assistant Administrator for Land and Emergency Management | no nominee |
Environmental Protection Agency | No Nominee | Assistant Administrator for Mission Support | no nominee |
Environmental Protection Agency | No Nominee | Assistant Administrator for Research and Development | no nominee |
Department of the Interior | No Nominee | Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks | no nominee |
Department of the Interior | No Nominee | Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs | no nominee |
Department of the Interior | No Nominee | Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget | no nominee |
Department of the Interior | No Nominee | Director, National Park Service | no nominee |
Department of the Interior | No Nominee | Special Trustee for American Indians | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Undersecretary for Infrastructure | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Assistant secretary for Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Assistant Secretary for International Affairs | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Director, Office of Minority Economic Impact | no nominee |
Department of Energy | No Nominee | Director, Office of Science | no nominee |
Environmental Protection Agency | Sean Donahue | General Counsel | N |
Environmental Protection Agency | Catherine Hanson | Chief Financial Officer | N |
Department of the Interior | Andrea Travnicek | Assistant Secretary for Water and Science | N |
Department of the Interior | William "Billy" Kirkland | Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs | N |
Department of the Interior | Theodore Cooke | Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation | N |
Department of the Interior | Brian Nesvik | Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | N |
Department of Energy | Tina Pierce | Chief Financial Officer | N |
Department of Energy | Brandon Williams | Undersecretary for Nuclear Security/Administrator for Nuclear Security | N |
Department of Energy | Matthew Napoli | Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation | N |
Department of Energy | David Beck | Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration | N |
Department of Energy | Scott Pappano | Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration | N |
Department of Energy | Conner Prochaska | Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy | N |