Original sentence: 1581), legislation that would remove protected status designation from 60 million acres of public lands.McCarthy does not accept the scientific consensus on climate change, as of 2014.McCarthy has been frequently at odds with environmental groups; the League of Conservation Voters has given him a lifetime score of 3%, as of 2015.The bill was strongly criticized by conservationist groups and by former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt
Edited sentence: 1581), legislation that would strip 60 million acres of public lands of protected status.McCarthy does not accept the scientific consensus on climate change.McCarthy has been frequently at odds with environmental groups; the League of Conservation Voters has given him a lifetime score of 3%.The bill was strongly criticized by conservationist groups and by former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, who called it "the most radical, overreaching attempt to dismantle the architecture of our public land laws" that he had seen in his lifetime