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.
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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.
