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.
A Nevada-based federal judge yesterday ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide within one month whether or not to protect Tiehm's buckwheat, a rare wildflower that's become central to the debate over a proposed open-pit lithium mine.
The Interior and Agriculture departments will convene a working group to address the needs of communities dealing with drought, the Biden administration said today ahead of a climate summit scheduled for tomorrow.
The Fish and Wildlife Service today formally designated 298,845 acres as critical habitat for the western population of the yellow-billed cuckoo, dialing back what had been proposed during the Trump administration.
White-nose syndrome has wiped out some 90% of the populations of three vulnerable bat species over the past decade, according to a new study that's as grim in its findings as it is far-reaching in scope.
The Trump administration exposed several fault lines at the U.S. Geological Survey.