The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced that Amanda Lefton will serve as Director. Lefton’s background includes experience as First Assistant Secretary for Energy and the Environment for New York, Deputy Policy Director for The Nature Conservancy, Albany District Director for the Rochester Regional Joint Board of Workers United, and legislative aide in the New York State Assembly and Senate.
Lefton said she was honored to join BOEM “to carry out its critical mission, while implementing the President’s ambitious agenda to tackle climate change,” and said that “we have an important opportunity to begin to transition to a clean energy future to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to create family supporting jobs.”
