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.
Experts from opposite ends of the political spectrum warned a federal court that allowing President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border to stand could set an "extraordinarily dangerous precedent."
Before joining the Trump administration to head the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley heaped plenty of disdain on his future federal colleagues in a paid speech, according to new documents.
The Bureau of Land Management's top official recused himself last month from decisionmaking tied to nearly five dozen organizations and individuals — including a two-year ban on clients represented by his former law firm — but newly disclosed documents show his financial ties to some of those interests will last a lifetime.
The National Park Service could soon deploy a pilot program testing the expansion of amenities like food trucks and mobile camp stores, if Interior Secretary David Bernhardt enacts recommendations from an advisory panel charged with expanding private concessions on federally managed lands.
Conservation advocates hope to put the brakes on a recent decision from the National Park Service that would open popular sites in Utah to off-highway vehicles.