Secretary of the Interior to Leave Position in March
On January 16, 2013, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that its current Secretary, Ken Salazar, will leave his post in late March. As Secretary, Salazar steered an expansion of renewable energy projects on federal lands, overhauled the regulatory framework for offshore drilling following the 2010 BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and restructured the former Minerals Management Service, now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. Salazar is a former Colorado Attorney General and United States Senator.