Michael has covered the Interior Department, the Fish and Wildlife Service and endangered species since 2017. He previously covered California and legal affairs for McClatchy's Washington Bureau. He is the author of three books, "The Ministers' War," "Radical Chapters" and "The Forestport Breaks." He graduated from Oberlin College and earned master's degrees from Yale Law School, where he was a Knight Journalism Fellow, and from Johns Hopkins University. He is an adjunct instructor at George Washington University and is a Virginia-certified EMT.
House Democrats are escalating pressure on the Interior Department to release certain Fish and Wildlife Service international grants caught up in allegations of overseas human rights abuses.
The Interior Department's cancellation of plans to reintroduce grizzly bears into the North Cascades will "result in adverse impacts" on the bears both in Washington state and "throughout their range," federal experts predicted in an extensive study that's now been halted in its tracks.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today said he will halt plans for restoring grizzly bears into the North Cascades ecosystem.
A Montana resident who describes himself as a "full-time healer [and] medicine man" faces up to five years in prison after being found guilty of smuggling bald eagle and other bird feathers.
The federal judge who shut down the Dakota Access pipeline today is a clear writer with a quick wit and a reputation for being sympathetic to diverse environmental causes.