President-elect Donald Trump selected his secretary for the Department of the Interior today, according to several reports. While Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers had been a rumored front-runner, it’s Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke that will be getting the nod.

Zinke majored in geology while playing football at the University of Oregon and later earned an MBA and a Masters in Global Leadership at the University of San Diego’s business school. He served 23 years as a Navy SEAL before entering politics in 2008.

Zinke, a Republican, has split with his party on several occasions over the status of public lands. He was involved in writing the GOP platform earlier this year, but he left when he couldn’t agree to language demanding that some portion of federal land be handed over to states.

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As far as what is done with those public lands, Zinke has repeatedly targeted decisions by the Obama Administration to regulate or limit fossil fuel production. He opposed the temporary moratorium on new coal leases, as well as regulations meant to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas wells.

“This rule is a stark reminder that we need to invest in infrastructure projects like the Keystone pipeline, so we don’t need to flare excess gas,” he wrote at the time. While it’s true that some shale-oil-producing areas lacking pipelines have vented and burned off large amounts of methane—notably North Dakota’s Bakken Formation—the Keystone pipeline would have conveyed diluted bitumen and crude oil, not gas.

Given Montana’s extensive coal mining, Zinke has been a staunch supporter of the coal industry, emphasizing that Montana’s coal burns cleaner than some other coal deposits that contain more sulfur. He has also pushed back against the stoppage of several logging projects in Montana because of the endangered Canadian lynx.

Zinke’s opinion on climate change is difficult to pin down. In an interview with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle last year, he acknowledged that climate is changing, with some contribution from human activities, citing the undeniable retreat of glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park. But he also falsely claimed that global temperatures in recent years contradicted climate model projections of continued warming.

“If we’re playing Russian Roulette [..] even if there’s a one-in-six chance on global warming [that] it’s a catastrophe, then I think you need to be prudent,” Zinke said, before continuing, “I think the prudency, though, given energy independence for North America [or] not—I think you go for energy independence for North America.”

As Interior Secretary, Zinke would oversee 75 percent of America’s public lands as well as a host of agencies including the National Park Service, United States Geological Survey, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He’d be in position to help roll back Obama Administration rules regarding oil, gas, and coal production on those federal lands—including offshore oil leases. Zinke's nomination is subject to senate approval.