Trump Formally Taps Burgum to Head Interior, New Energy Council

President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to nominate Doug Burgum to lead the Department of the Interior and a newly created National Energy Council, giving the North Dakota governor significant influence over the incoming administration’s efforts to boost domestic oil and gas production.

“Doug Burgum will protect our Nation’s Natural Resources, restore our fabulous Oil and Gas advantage, and Make America, and its Energy, Dominant and Great Again!,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social network on Friday.

The incoming president had announced that Burgum would be his pick for Interior Thursday night. But he formalized the selection ...