Interior nominee Sally Jewell faces Senate skepticism

Several senators worry that the REI chief executive's involvement in conservation groups might mean an unbalanced stance on fossil fuels. Others like her business background.WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to steer the Interior Department, REI Chief Executive Sally Jewell, vowed Thursday to balance competing demands on public lands for conservation and resource exploitation. But several senators of both parties expressed wariness of Jewell's involvement in conservation groups, suggesting that she might not adequately support fossil fuel development on federal acreage.

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