The Senate confirmed Dan Brouillette as the nations 16th secretary of energy Monday, replacing Rick Perry with the eighth former lobbyist to serve in President Donald Trump s Cabinet.

The 70-to-15 vote put Brouillette, 57, in charge of the agency that oversees the nations nuclear arsenal and funds vital research into technologies to cut planet-heating emissions.

Brouillette, the former deputy energy secretary, is expected to be a steady hand at an agency that has largely evaded the political scandals that plagued other federal departments even as he pushes the administrations unabashedly pro-fossil fuel agenda.

His ascent from deputy energy secretary to the agencys helm follows a pattern for a president who won in part on a promise to drain the swamp of profiteering influence peddlers.

Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is now the Environmental Protection Agency administrator. David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist, now leads the Interior Department. Defense Secretary Mark Esper previously represented military contracting giant Raytheon.