Jennifer writes about public lands issues, including access, development and the state land transfer movement. She previously covered campaigns and elections at E&E. Before joining E&E News in 2011, she spent 10 years at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call where she worked as an investigative reporter writing about ethics, campaign finance and congressional wealth. Her work has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Detroit News and on National Public Radio. She has appeared as an expert guest on outlets including C-SPAN, NPR and local television. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Newly disclosed internal emails show senior Interior Department aides contemplated whether they could delay the release of a Fish and Wildlife Service study on "Americans' relationship to nature" in 2017 over concerns the report could undermine President Trump's order to review the boundaries of dozens of national monuments.
The Justice Department yesterday doubled down on its defense of President Trump's reductions to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as it responded to friend-of-the-court briefs.
Three months after a federal judge allowed local Utah officials to stand alongside the Trump administration in defending cuts to the Bears Ears National Monument, attorneys for San Juan County today asked to walk away from the lawsuit.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt last month quietly updated his agency's batting order — filling out a list of a dozen employees who may take the reins in an emergency scenario where the department has exhausted its order of succession.
As president, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) declared today she would prohibit new oil and gas leases on public lands — including offshore drilling — vowing "to end our public lands' contribution to climate change."