The Senate confirmed the former Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgam on Thursday, as Secretary of the Interior on Thursday, and the majority of the Senate Democratic Party joined the Republican members in the room.
Burgam, one of the only candidates of the Trump Campaign, led by the GOP President in 2024, was one of the most controversial candidates. He last week, he moved forward with almost unanimous voting from the Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee. Senator Ron Widen (D-ORE.) And Mazy Hirono (D-Hawaii) have voted in the nomination.
Widen, the mastermind of renewable energy tax deduction in the inflation reduction method, quoted the opposition to the reduction of President Trump against both Burgam and the Energy Secretary Chris Light.
“We can't support these candidates to execute Trump's policies to abandon the biggest advantage of the United States,” said Widen.
As Secretary of Interior, Burgam supervises environmental policies and national public land. Trump has made an oath of expanding the development of oil and gas, with the trajectory of the campaign and his early action as the president, and rolling back environmental protection under the Biden administration. According to his remarks in his confirmation hearing, the former Governor gave the support of those priority and said, “We live in a tremendous rich era and prioritize innovation over regulations. You can access. “
The voting will be performed the day after the Senate confirmed Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with 56-42 votes.
Unlike Trump, Bulgum acknowledges the existence of climate change, and sets an ambitious target that the governor creates a carbon neutrality of North Dakota. However, in his confirmation hearing, he also suggested that he quickly tracked natural gas and coal development in federal land to supply power to the Artificial Intelligence Data Center.
Despite the high level of coal greenhouse gas emissions, Burgam is the center of the Bulgum plan of making Burgam carbon neutral, and is used to capture carbon, which is a new and unpolished technique. It suggested that this could be offset.
