# Doug Burgum

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.

## Dated facts

- Interior Department curtails federal offshore-wind leasing and approvals in 2025. https://factrail.ai/facts/energy-fact-burgum-offshore-wind-halt-2025.

## Methodology

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