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Trump's Cabinet May Include Oil and Coal Energy Lobbyists
The president-elect's energy plans are broad and ambitious. His "America First" strategy is designed to promote domestic fossil fuel production and support a growing natural gas industry. He plans to roll back environmental regulations and allow drilling on public land. But his party's push to loosen regulations on the extractive industry could run into resistance from environmental groups and public discontent.
Trump has nominated Rick Perry, the longest-serving former governor of the oil-rich state of Texas, to be his energy secretary. He was among the Republicans who criticized Trump in 2016 but later defected.
When Perry ran for president in 2012, he wanted to move the Energy Department outside the federal government. With close ties to major firms in the mining industry, Perry has advocated for further exploration of fossil fuels and drilling for more oil.
Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, has been nominated to be the next EPA administrator. A vocal critic of the agency, he has sued it over power plant regulations.
Pruitt denies that human activity has contributed to global warming and dismisses climate science as a serious issue. Like Perry, Pruitt is a big supporter of reviving the mining industry.
The nominee for Treasury Secretary is Steven Mnuchin, who spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs and now serves as co-chairman and CEO of Dune Capital Management. He is also a Hollywood producer, with films such as "Rules Don't Apply," "Suicide Squad," "American Sniper," and "The Lego Movie" to his credit.
Mnuchin made his billions from the 2008 housing crisis. In 2009, during the housing market crash, he oversaw the purchase of failed IndyMac, a bank that dealt in risky home mortgages. Mnuchin's plans include the biggest tax cuts since the Reagan era.
Betsy DeVos, a Republican donor, has been nominated for Secretary of Education. She heads the American Federation for Children and served on the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Her efforts could change the American public education system beyond recognition, as DeVos is quite capable of reconsidering its founding principles.
It is possible that these efforts will run into an increasingly mass protest movement, since many students in New York, Boston, Portland, and other places have come out against the results of the presidential election, thereby showing distrust of Trump and his future policies, and some students have directly condemned the candidacy of Betsy DeVos.
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