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Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on nomination of Doug Burgum to be secretary of the interior.

Doug Burgum (R), President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior secretary, sat for a largely cordial ... It’s also driving the long term aridification of the western United States.” The closest the hearing came to a tense moment was during questioning ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as ...

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum's nomination to lead a presidential Cabinet agency was advanced by a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.

Former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum opened his senate hearing yesterday with a statement about energy production in the United States.

Doug Burgum ... Interior has authority over 500 million acres of surface land, 700 million acres of subsurface and 2 billion acres that are untouched lands offshore. He singled out tribal lands as "assets" that would be especially beneficial for the United ...

Lawsuits filed by North Dakota give some insight into former Gov. Doug Burgum's worldview as he prepares to take over Interior.

During Doug Burgum ... other Republican-led states, although the state brought a handful independently. Five of the cases were lodged against the Interior Department. Burgum is a relative ...

During Doug Burgum ... other Republican-led states, although the state brought a handful independently. Five of the cases were lodged against the Interior Department. Burgum is a relative ...

Burgum met the threshold for a vote to proceed with a full Senate debate, meaning his final vote for confirmation will be Thursday night or Friday.