# Shane Khoury Shane Khoury ([email protected]) is the Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment — "Secretary Khoury" in [[Hugh McDonald]]'s words. On 2026-03-04 he received McDonald's forward of AVAIO's "Tier IV equivalent generators" request and sent it to Bailey Taylor and [[Demetria Kimbrough]] with a one-word directive: "Thoughts?" ## Role and affiliations Secretary, E&E (the department whose Division of Environmental Quality runs the air-permit program at issue). ## Appearances in the corpus - [[AVAIO Tier 4 Equivalent Email to the Commerce Secretary]] — the relay from Commerce into the permitting agency (260305-email.pdf, p. 1). ## Notes The speed of the relay (Commerce → E&E Secretary → Air Quality deputy director inside 48 hours) is part of what makes the channel a finding.