Environmental groups alarmed as Doug Burgum picked for US interior secretary

Several groups say North Dakota governor will sacrifice public lands on the ‘altar of the fossil fuel industry’s profits’Donald Trump’s nomination of North Dakota’s Republican governor, Doug Burgum, as the interior secretary has prompted swift backlash from environmental advocacy groups alarmed at the incoming administration’s plans to use federal lands for oil and gas drilling.Trump also announced in a statement on Friday his intention to make Burgum chair of