The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to advance to the full Senate President Donald Trump’s nominees to head the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior.
The committee vote on the nominations of Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be secretary of energy and former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to be secretary of interior is scheduled for a committee business meeting set for 9:30 a.m.
The session will be webcast and available on the committee’s website.
Wright and Burgum underwent confirmation hearings last week. In addition to heading Interior, Trump plans to have Burgum head a National Energy Council, according to published reports. Based on national media accounts, neither nominee is considered especially controversial and both are expected to win confirmation from the Republican-controlled Senate.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓