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Kate MacGregor

Vice President of Environmental Services
NextEra

Kate currently serves as the Vice President of Environmental Services for NextEra, charged with ensuring thoughtful environmental planning and compliance from project development through to operations. Prior to joining NextEra, Kate served as the Senate-confirmed Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, responsible for overseeing 70,000 employees and an annual budget of over $14 billion. Kate’s work at Interior included overseeing responsible domestic energy and mineral development on public lands and waters, implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act to enhance our National Parks, combating the crisis of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaskan Natives, enhancing rural broadband, overseeing the Department’s COVID-19 operational response, and other Interior-focused priorities. Kate also served as Interior’s Regulatory Reform Officer, charged with improving Interior’s review and promulgation of regulations, as well as identifying regulations for repeal, replacement, or modification. Kate joined the Interior Department after working on Capitol Hill for 10 years. She served as Legislative Director for Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and also served as Professional Staff handling energy and public lands-related issues on the House Natural Resources Committee for two Chairmen.

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