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Doug BurgumRepublican

Secretary of the Interior · United States · in this role since 2025

100Score

Current role · Secretary of the Interior · United States

1 tracked promise

ActionOverWords Index tracks 1 promise by Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, United States: 1 completed. The AOW Score (0 to 100, based on 1 tracked promise) is 100. It is listed below with its sources.

1 completed

CompletedEnergy & environment

Expand oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands.

Interior reports Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease sales raised over $356 million in the first year, which the department says exceeds the total across all four years of the previous administration, plus a single New Mexico/Texas sale later topping $4 billion and a National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska sale setting a program revenue record. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain was reopened to leasing (82% of NPR-A and all 1.56 million acres of the ANWR coastal plain), though the first ANWR sale itself drew only $3.7 million with major producers staying away. Interior also proposed rules shortening public-comment windows on new leases from 90 days to 10. Note the sourcing: the headline revenue figures are Interior’s own and self-reported rather than independently audited, and reporting has separately found the secretary meeting with an oil executive whose company benefited from expedited permits on land the secretary’s own family leases.

Earlier offices

Governor · North Dakota (2016–2024)

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