Western allies and environmental opponents alike know what to expect from Wyoming attorney Karen Budd-Falen’s return to the Interior Department.
Now reportedly slated to serve as the Interior Department’s associate deputy secretary, Budd-Falen has built her reputation through both her private practice as well as her prior work with the conservative Mountain States Legal Foundation and her service in both the Reagan and the first Trump administrations.
Budd-Falen’s new appointment was first reported by the Cowboy State Daily.
The newspaper quoted her as saying that although “when you live in Wyoming, moving to a city is very hard,” she considered it “so important to people in the West” that the region be represented at Interior with its vast Western footprint.
