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.
President Trump today jettisoned commercial fishing restrictions in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, bowing to long-running demands from industry that it represented a "regulatory burden" on domestic fisheries.
A bipartisan coalition of six former secretaries of the Interior yesterday pressed House and Senate leadership to swiftly adopt a sweeping public lands package and warned against amending the legislation as it heads to the Senate floor.
Idaho resident Ammon Bundy, known for his leadership in armed standoffs challenging federal land management, is now seeking a role in the growing protest movement over police brutality, asserting there is "no accountability in the law enforcement."
Federal prosecutors today conceded they failed to turn over evidence in the criminal trial of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons but nonetheless urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to permit a new hearing in the case.
Federal prosecutors today will urge the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant them a second chance to prosecute Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and two of his sons for their roles in a 2014 armed showdown near the family's Bunkerville, Nev., ranch.