The resort ballroom was packed earlier than breakfast as Jigar Shah took the stage on the oil and fuel trade’s annual convention in Houston this spring. The host joked he was assured an enormous crowd would come out for Mr. Shah, even at 7:30 a.m.
It’s uncommon for a midlevel federal official to draw a lot consideration. However the small, obscure workplace that Mr. Shah oversees, the Division of Power’s Mortgage Applications Workplace, has turn out to be an engine of the Biden administration’s efforts to…