"White House officials are seriously considering former cattle rancher and Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis to serve as President Donald Trump’s next Interior secretary, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

Lummis has emerged as one of the top contenders to lead the Interior Department, an $11 billion agency that oversees drilling, grazing and other activities on public lands, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing private personnel matters.

Conservative Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus support the candidacy of Lummis, who was an unabashed champion of oil, gas and coal development during her four terms in the House of Representatives."

Jennifer A Dlouhy, Jennifer Jacobs, and Billy House report for Bloomberg January 30, 2019. [2]