Washington, D.C — In response to Donald Trump’s nomination of Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) issued the following statement from Senior Federal Advocacy Campaigns Director, Leah Donahey:

“Billionaire Doug Burgum already demonstrated the lengths he’ll go when he helped organize the infamous dinner where Trump offered Big Oil executives their wishlist in exchange for $1 billion. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with protecting the country’s most iconic, unspoiled, and treasured public lands while working with local and Indigenous communities. Instead of comparing Burgum to other Trump nominees, the question should be how much is Burgum willing to hand over to oil CEOs and other Big Polluters — all so they can pad their already record profits. If Burgum cares about our public lands, he will disavow the MAGA Project 2025 agenda and Trump’s extreme campaign to eliminate protections in order to ‘drill, drill, drill’.” 

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