Former doj lawyer to replace biden’s head of offshore energy safety
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The Biden administration’s chief of offshore energy safety is being replaced by a former Department of Justice attorney. Kevin Sligh, who has served as director of the Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement for 2 ½ years, will leave the bureau Sept. 6, the Interior Department announced this week. Kathryn Kovacs, a former DOJ lawyer who currently serves as Interior’s
deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, will assume leadership of the bureau after Sligh’s exit. Advertisement Sligh is a Coast Guard veteran who had helped lead the
emergency response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. He was named director of BSEE in 2022. GET FULL ACCESS