If confirmed by the court's October term, the nominee would hear arguments on Day One on a key endangered-species case.

Executive order also revokes 2015 Obama directive establishing flood-risk standard for infrastructure projects.

President Trump has directed the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers to begin work on cancelling or rewriting an Obama administration rule that aimed to clarify federal authority over wetlands and other bodies of water.

Industry weighs President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious infrastructure plan and his promises to undo Obama Administration regulations.