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President Joe Biden has nominated former Obama administration official Michael Connor of Colorado to be assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Currently a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Connor served as deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior from 2014 until 2017. According to the White House, he played a key role in establishing water policies to address an unprecedented western drought, promoting renewable energy development on public lands and the outer continental shelf, developing science-based strategies to support landscape-level management of public lands and improving the federal governments fulfillment of its trust responsibility to Native Americans. Connor served as the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 2009 to 2014. |