If confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, Burgum would manage a department that oversees federal lands and offshore waters, from which 26 percent of US oil production comes

President-elect Trump has chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to lead the Interior Department, which manages the nation’s public lands and waters. Here are six things to know about him: He’ll be tasked with carrying out Trump’s promise to ‘drill baby drill’ If confirmed,

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will lead the Department of the Interior in the Trump administration, the president-elect announced.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to serve as his next secretary of the Department of the Interior.

The president-elect said during an event Thursday night that he plans to make a "formal" announcement on Friday.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was officially nominated for secretary of the Interior and “chairman of the newly formed, and very important, National Energy Council” by President-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump assigned Doug Burgum a singular mission in nominating the governor of oil-rich North Dakota to lead an agency that oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore: “Drill baby drill.

That dictate from the president-elect’s announcement of Burgum for Secretary of Interior sets the stage for a reignition of the court battles over public lands and waters that helped define Trump’s first term.