Trump picks North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : "He's going to head the Department of Interior, and it's going to be fantastic, Trump said in a speech during an America First Policy Institute dinner at his Mar a Lago resort.
84% : "We're going to do things with energy and with land interior that is going to be incredible," Trump said.
65% : He then became a vocal supporter of Trump and hosted fundraising events for him while being shortlisted for the Republican vice presidential nomination.
56% : Trump then elevated former oil industry lobbyist and Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to the top of the agency.
53% : Emissions from burning and extracting fossil fuels from public lands and waters account for about a quarter of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
51% : Restoring and expanding fossil fuel energy development should be priority one at Interior in the coming Trump term, former Interior official William Perry Pendley wrote in Project 2025, a blueprint for the new administration published by the Heritage Foundation.

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