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Trump to withdraw Pendley's nomination as public lands chief

by Associated Press
| August 18, 2020 12:06 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump intends to withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management, a senior administration official said Saturday — much to the relief of environmentalists who insisted the longtime advocate of selling federal lands should not be overseeing them.

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