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.
Dirk Arthur Kempthorne is an American politician who served as the 49th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2006 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a United States Senator from Idaho from 1993 to 1999 and the 30th governor of Idaho from 1999 to 2006.
David Michael Satterfield is an American diplomat and ambassador,who has served extensively in the Middle East,including the Persian Gulf area,Lebanon,and Iraq. He later served as a senior advisor on Iraq for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was director general of the Multinational Force and Observers,the peacekeeping force for the Sinai Peninsula from June 2009 until August 2017. He was chargéd'affaires to Egypt from August 2013 to January 2014 and was subsequently Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Libya. From September 2017 to June 2019 he served as the acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs,and was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Turkey on June 27,2019.
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.
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.
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management,recycling,and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board. It is known for administering the California Redemption Value (CRV) program,among other responsibilities.
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
Susan Elizabeth "Liz" Birnbaum served as Director of the Minerals Management Service in the United States from July 15,2009,to May 27,2010. Birnbaum was in charge of administering "programs that ensure the effective management of renewable energy [...] and traditional energy and mineral resources on the nation's Outer Continental Shelf,including the environmentally safe exploration,development,and production of oil and natural gas,as well as the collection and distribution of revenues for minerals developed on federal and American Indian lands."
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.
Van Ness Feldman is a law and government relations firm specializing in energy,environment and natural resources law with offices in Washington D.C.,Seattle,the San Francisco Bay Area,Houston and Baton Rouge.
Anne Rachel Traum is an American lawyer and academic who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. She was a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2002 and again from 2008 to 2022.
William Ely Villafañe Ramos is a member at-large of the Puerto Rico Senate. He is also the Chief of Staff of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2018. Villafañe was a candidate for Resident Commissioner in the November 2024 election.
Bernard L. McNamee is an American attorney and former government official who served as Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2018 to 2020. Nominated to the position by President Donald Trump,McNamee was confirmed to the position by the United States Senate on December 6,2018.
M. Camille Calimlim Touton is a Filipino-American water policy advisor who served as the commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025.
