The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday favorably reported out two of President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy nominees.
The committee endorsed Preston Wells Griffith to be undersecretary of energy and Dario Gil to be undersecretary of energy for science. Both nominations are being placed on the Senate executive calendar, one of the last steps before being voted on by the full Senate.
Griffith passed 14-6 and Gill passed 15-to-5. Gill served on a group of national science advisers during the first Trump administration. Currently a consultant, Griffith was a special assistant to the president on energy and environmental policy during the first Trump term.
