WASHINGTON -- Environmental groups in Arizona are raising alarms over President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce.

Pearce’s long record of supporting the sale of public land, opposing protection of national monuments and pushing to expand oil and gas extraction, they say, makes him unfit to lead the agency responsible for one-tenth of the nation’s land. Copy article link Sign up for our newsletters

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