Docs Detail Trump BLM Nominee’s Vast Wealth, Financial Entanglements

Last year, Steve Pearce raked in up to $1.1 million off of frac tank leases and water sales — to whom remains unclear.

Then-Congressman Steve Pearce (R-N.M) speaks at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr

Former New Mexico congressman Steve Pearce built his wealth in the oil and gas sector. Now, President Donald Trump wants him to lead the country’s largest land management agency, where he woul…