President Donald Trump has nominated Kathleen Sgamma, head of the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, to be the next director of the Bureau of Land Management, according to the Congressional Record. The White House or Trump has yet to comment on the nomination, which requires Senate confirmation.

Kathleen Sgamma is president of the Colorado-based Western Energy Alliance, which has long pushed for greater access by the oil and gas industry to public lands.

Bureau of Land Management nominee Kathleen Sgamma heads a fossil fuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark conservation rule.

If confirmed by the Senate, Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, would oversee management of approximately 245 million acres of surface lands.

President Donald Trump has selected the head of a Denver-based oil and gas trade group to be the Bureau of Land Management’s next director. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Kathleen Sgamma would replace Tracy Stone-Manning as director of the agency tasked with managing natural

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states.

The nominee, Kathleen Sgamma, has worked for nearly two decades on behalf of oil and gas companies in Western states.

The Trump administration has named Kathleen Sgamma, a vocal oil and gas advocate for Western states, to head up the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which manages the use of the country's nearly 250 million acres of public lands.

Kathleen Sgamma is president of the Colorado-based Western Energy Alliance, which has long pushed for greater access by the oil and gas industry to public lands.