
President Donald Trump’s nominee for a top post in the Interior Department spent years in the private sector advocating for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies at odds with the president’s goal to eliminate such standards and practices from the federal government.
“Developing diverse talent is imperative for the energy technology and services sector as it continues to develop new and innovative technologies to lead us into a lower carbon future,” nominee Leslie Beyer said as CEO of the Energy & Technology Workforce Council, an energy industry trade association. The 2022 statement coincided with the publication of her organization’s Workforce Diversity Toolkit – designed to help partner companies make progress towards their DEI goals.
Now, Beyer is President Trump’s nominee to serve as the Interior Department’s assistant secretary of Land and Minerals Management, a post that oversees four of the department’s agencies with more than 12,000 employees and a $1.5 billion budget.
The official is responsible for helping the Interior secretary manage more than 245 million acres of federal lands, 700 million acres of mineral interests, and the 1.7 billion-acre Outer Continental Shelf, according to the Center for Presidential Transition.
But Beyer’s championing of DEI measures while head of her trade association stands in stark contrast to Trump’s efforts to root out such programs from the behemoth federal agencies under his command.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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