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Environmental groups prepare to fight a new Trump administration

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Environmentalists see the Cabinet picks Trump has announced so far as early steps toward that agenda.

They expect him to focus on expanding oil and gas drilling, reducing the acreage of preserved federal land.

Conservation groups also expect a renewed fight over protected federal land, particularly in the Southwest .

Aumack said many elected Republicans may not want to lose the money going to their districts.

He pointed to a few types of environmental policies that may be hard for the new Trump administration to dismantle.

Clean water has emerged as an area of relative bipartisan consensus, he said.