Regulating Energy and Land Management at the Department of the Interior with Kathryn Kovacs

Deputy Assistant Secretary Kati Kovacs, who supervises rulemaking related to energy and land management, will provide a practical explanation of how federal agencies navigate the process for creating regulations. She also will discuss some of the Department of the Interior’s significant regulatory accomplishments related to encouraging renewable energy development both onshore and on the outer continental shelf, continuing responsible conventional energy activities on- and off-shore, and ensuring balanced management of federal lands. Speaker Bio Kathryn Kovacs is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior. She also is a professor at Rutgers Law School where she teaches Administrative Law, Natural Resources Law, Environmental Law and Property. Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2011, she spent twelve years in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, Appellate Section. In 2016, Kovacs served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management in the U.S. Department of the Interior. She also spent three years litigating primarily constitutional claims as an attorney in the Baltimore City Law Department, and she clerked for the Honorable Robert C. Murphy, former Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. Kovacs is a cum laude graduate of Yale University and the Georgetown University Law Center.