India’s prime minister will arrive at the White House this afternoon with tariffs an unavoidable top-of-mind agenda item, but other issues in play have the potential to head off some new duties between the world's first-largest and fifth-largest economies.

The head of a Denver-based oil and gas trade group that lobbies for expanded drilling on public lands is Republican President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Kathleen Sgamma is the president of Western Energy Alliance,

The White House has nominated Kathleen Sgamma, the president of the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, to be the BLM director, according to Congress.gov. Sgamma’s oil and gas trade group has long advocated for greater industry access to public lands and less regulation of oil and gas and mining interests.