The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group,with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C.,San Francisco,Los Angeles,Chicago,Bozeman,India,and Beijing. The group was founded in 1970 in opposition to a hydro-electric power power plant in New York.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production,the research and development of nuclear power,the military's nuclear weapons program,nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy,energy-related research,and energy conservation.
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state. The executive departments are the administrative arms of the president of the United States. There are currently 15 executive departments.
Sheldon Whitehouse is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1993 to 1998 and as the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR),established in 1995,is the agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania responsible for maintaining and preserving the state's 124 state parks and 20 state forests;providing information on the state's natural resources;and working with communities to benefit local recreation and natural areas. The agency has its headquarters in the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg.
J. Clay Sell is the CEO of X-energy,a U.S. based,privately owned company that develops small modular nuclear reactors and advanced fuel technology for clean energy generation. Sell previously served as United States Deputy Secretary of Energy in the George W. Bush administration from March 21,2005,until he resigned,effective February 29,2008.
The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is a Nevada state agency that focuses on the preservation and management of Nevada’s natural,cultural,and recreational resources. The current director is James Settelmeyer. The agency is headquartered in Carson City,Nevada. One of its holdings is the South Fork Dam and Reservoir near Elko,Nevada.
Mark Eugene Amodei is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district since 2011. The only Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation since 2019,Amodei served in the Nevada Assembly from 1997 to 1999 and in the Nevada Senate,representing the Capital District,from 1999 to 2011.
Douglas William Domenech is an American government official who served as the Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. He is a former a George W. Bush administration political appointee who served in roles of Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Department of the Interior,and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior,as well as held a position on the White House Working Group on the Political Status of Puerto Rico.
James Settelmeyer is an American politician,formerly serving in the Nevada Senate. He represented Churchill,Douglas,Lyon County,and Storey County in Senate District 17.
David J. Hayes is an American attorney and legal scholar who serves in the Biden Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. Hayes has led White House work on clean energy deployment issues,climate resilience and greenhouse gas emission reduction and carbon sequestration initiatives. Hayes also has assisted in developing and implementing the climate-related provisions included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been formally used since 1993.
Peter Bruce Lyons was confirmed by the US Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy on April 14,2011. He was appointed to his previous role as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy in September,2009. As Assistant Secretary,Dr. Lyons was responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy. He retired from the Department of Energy on June 30,2015.
Robert Lamson Crowell was an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Carson City,Nevada,from 2009 to 2020. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
This is a list of political appointments of current officeholders made by the 45th president of the United States,Donald Trump.
William Ely Villafañe Ramos is a member at-large of the Puerto Rico Senate. He is also a former Chief of Staff and Secretary of Government (2017-2018). Villafañe is a current candidate for Resident Commissioner in the 2024 New Progressive party primaries.
Bernard L. McNamee is a government official who served as Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2018 to 2020. McNamee was confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on December 6,2018. He previously served in various state and federal legal and policy positions and practiced energy law in the private sector.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada were held on November 8,2022,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Nevada,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with the Nevada gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the U.S. House of Representatives,elections to the U.S. Senate,and various state and local elections.
M. Camille Calimlim Touton is a Filipino-American water policy advisor who serves as the commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Biden administration.
