Net positiveFormula-derived score
US Secretary of the Interior and former Governor of North Dakota, who chairs the administration's energy-policy efforts and curtailed offshore wind while expanding fossil leasing. The largest positive offset is “Interior Department curtails federal offshore-wind leasing and approvals in 2025” (2025).
Sources: [1]
Biggest harms and offsets: signed contributions to the formula-derived score, ranked by size.
via Renewable capacity buildout → Renewable share of global electricity generation
29 July 2025
Sorted by the size of this person’s signed contribution. The observed state is the indicator’s own reading, not this person’s doing.
+39 pts to the score
Observed
30% of electricity generation · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Better than normal6 readings, 2000–2023: rose from 18.9% of electricity generation to 30% of electricity generation.
Above normal = better · 2025 · 1 fact, confidence ×0.86 · formula deviation factor 3
−31 pts to the score
Observed
55.1% of gross electricity consumption · 24.9 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better · 2025 · 1 fact, confidence ×0.86 · formula deviation factor −3
−17 pts to the score
Observed
91.6% of population · 8.4 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal4 readings, 2020–2023: rose from 90.4% of population to 91.6% of population.
Above normal = better · 2025 · 1 fact, confidence ×0.8 · formula deviation factor −3
+17 pts to the score
Observed
4.73 tonnes CO2 per person per year · 2.43 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 4.71 tonnes CO2 per person per year (2023) and 4.73 tonnes CO2 per person per year (2024).
Above normal = worse · 2025 · 1 fact, confidence ×0.86 · formula deviation factor −2.43
+14 pts to the score
Observed
32.9 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted) · 27.9 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2021–2023: fell from 33.2 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted) to 32.9 micrograms per cubic metre (annual mean, population-weighted).
Above normal = worse · 2025 · 1 fact, confidence ×0.8 · formula deviation factor −3
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Contribution size 0.7 · Responsibility 0.5 · Fact impact −0.7 · Driver weight 0.81 · Driver → indicator 0.9 · Indicator importance 0.85 · Deviation factor 3 · Confidence 0.86
How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.
1 of 1 linked fact verified, drawing on 1 distinct source (2025).
Sources include US Department of the Interior.
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Doug Burgum is the US Secretary of the Interior, confirmed in 2025, and a former two-term Governor of North Dakota with a background in software entrepreneurship. At Interior he has played a central role in the administration's energy agenda, halting offshore-wind leasing on national-security grounds while expanding offshore and onshore oil-and-gas leasing and streamlining fossil-fuel permitting.
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