Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy

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The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is the head of the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management within the United States Department of Energy. The Office of Fossil Energy is responsible for several initiatives, including implementation of a $2 billion, 10-year initiative to develop a new generation of environmentally sound clean coal technologies, and the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. The Assistant Secretary manages about 1000 scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative staff. [1]

The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. [1] [2] Current Assistant Secretary Steven Winberg was nominated by President Donald Trump in September 2017, and sworn in after Senate confirmation in November 2017.

Former Assistant Secretaries by recency include Acting Assistant Secretary Douglas Hollett; Assistant Secretary Chris Smith; Assistant Secretary Chuck McConnell; Jeffrey D. Jarrett, [3] Acting Assistant Secretary Mark R. Maddox, [4] and Carl Michael Smith. There have been ten former Assistant Secretaries in total, excluding acting officers. [5] The Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy is 15th in the order of succession for Secretary of Energy. [6] The Assistant Secretary is paid at level IV of the Executive Schedule, [2] meaning he or she receives a basic annual salary of $143,000. [7]

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