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April 26, 2021
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden has nominated a longtime environmental advocate and Democratic aide to oversee the vast expanses of federally owned land in Western states — the latest political appointment raising concerns among Republicans as Biden moves to curtail energy production from public reserves.
Tracy Stone-Manning of Missoula, Montana, was nominated on Thursday to direct the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which has jurisdiction over about a quarter-billion acres and one-third of the nation's underground minerals, including huge reserves of oil, natural gas and coal. The agency regulates drilling, mining, grazing and other activities and is set to play a key role in Biden's commitment announced Thursday to cut climate warming emissions from fossil fuels by half by 2030.
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