Bureau of Land Management nominee Kathleen Sgamma heads a fossil fuel industry trade group that sued the Biden administration over a landmark conservation rule.

The nominee, Kathleen Sgamma, has worked for nearly two decades on behalf of oil and gas companies in Western states.

Kathleen Sgamma has been nominated to lead the Bureau of Land Management, the nation's largest landlord. Sgamma, a former military intelligence officer, is a familiar face in Washington congressional hearings testifying against BLM policies.

The Trump administration has named Kathleen Sgamma, a vocal oil and gas advocate for Western states, to head up the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which manages the use of the country's nearly 250 million acres of public lands.

Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Colorado-based Western Energy Alliance, has been nominated to lead the Bureau of Land Management.