An anti-development pressure group with close ties to organized labor and environmental activists is scandalized because “industry-friendly” individuals have been selected to serve in President Trump’s Interior Department.

While it’s fair game to debate the merits of nominees who have been tapped to fill key positions, it’s not fair or honest to posture as champions of the public interest when in reality you are advancing the policy preferences of narrow special interests. But that’s what a group known as the Western Values Project has been doing since the time of its inception in 2013.