REI CEO Sally Jewell To Be Sworn In As Secretary Of The Interior
In Focus President Barack Obama, new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and outgoing secretary Ken Salazar on February 6, after Obama announced Jewell as pick for the position. Official White House Photo by Pete SouzaJewell will have to face some wildly controversial issues, including offshore drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and more. The new U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, has both headed camping-gear company R.E.I. and worked as a petroleum engineer. As secretary, she'll be in charge of perennially controversial decisions about conservation, recreation and oil and gas drilling. In the final vote before her confirmation, the U.S. Senate voted 87-11 in Jewell's favor April 10. Jewell will be sworn in this afternoon. She takes Ken Salazar's place in President Barack Obama's second cabinet. The Seattle Times outlined some of the hotly debated questions Jewell will tackle: Should offshore oil drilling continue in the Arctic? How should hydraulic fracturing companies report the...