Some supporters of Kathleen Sgamma predicted she would support some green energy projects, while shifting the Bureau of Land Management's emphasis to fossil fuels.

Kathleen Sgamma, who led the Western Energy Alliance, spent decades arguing against stricter oil and gas regulations, and views renewable energy as too unreliable to ever power the nation’s grids.

Longtime oil and gas industry advocate and vocal critic of federal oversight Kathleen Sgamma is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency that

Kathleen Sgamma is the president of Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, where she’s worked for nearly two decades to reduce barriers for oil and gas producers extracting from federal lands.

She knows the West, she knows the Rocky Mountains, she knows the oil and gas business, she knows the permitting challenges we have.” “She’ll be very dedicated to helping meet the multiple-use standards of BLM lands,