David J. Hayes, the deputy secretary of the interior since the early days of the Obama administration, said on Tuesday that he would leave the post at the end of June.
Mr. Hayes, 59, who served in the same position in the second term of the Clinton administration, agreed to stay at the agency for several months to ease the transition of the new interior secretary, Sally Jewell, a former chief executive of Recreational Equipment Inc. in Seattle. (New Interior Chief Savors a Steep Learning Curve, April 30)
He has overseen many of the major initiatives at the department over the past four years, including opening the Arctic to exploratory oil and gas drilling, concluding a legal settlement with American Indian tribes, overhauling offshore oil regulations after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, and expanding production of solar and wind energy on public lands.
Mr. Hayes, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame and a law degree from Stanford, will join the Hewlett Foundation and teach at Stanford Law School in the fall.
