Doug Burgum, Republican governor of North Dakota, is named to lead a planned new National Energy Council of sector regulators, while others are tapped for top posts at energy, transportation and environmental agencies.
But justices declined to block business group and red state suits against tougher curbs on mercury pollutants from coal-fired power plants and methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities.
Justices will rule on arguments against EPA "generic" effluent discharge permitting, but declined to consider landowners' eminent domain challenge on the Mountain Valley gas pipeline.