As the nation’s largest nuclear energy lobbying group pushes the Trump administration to open up lands near Grand Canyon National Park to uranium mining, a government watchdog is raising concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
Before William Perry Pendley became acting director of the Bureau of Land Management in July, he was the president of a legal firm that sued the federal government in 2012 on behalf of the Northwest Mining Association.
That group wanted to challenge an Obama-era uranium mining ban on 1 million acres of public land adjacent to the Grand Canyon...