Scott writes about the Interior Department and related agencies. He has reported on a wide range of topics during a 25-year reporting career, including EPA regulation of oil refineries, the potential health risks posed by toxic chemicals in household items and the role of federal lands in renewable energy development. Before joining E&E News in 2009, he was an environmental reporter with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and before that with the Pensacola News Journal. He has won numerous journalism awards, including the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers winner for special projects.
The Bureau of Land Management is scurrying to complete a comprehensive — and overdue — report to Congress that lawmakers expect will propose specific strategies to address the "financial and political challenges of controlling wild horse and burro populations."
Bureau of Land Management acting chief William Perry Pendley today slammed calls by some Democratic presidential contenders to ban oil and gas leasing on federal lands.
The Bureau of Land Management has chosen a 27-year federal career official to lead the California state office, which manages more than 15 million acres of federal land.
The deadline is coming for dozens of employees in the Bureau of Land Management's Washington, D.C.-based headquarters to decide whether they will leave the bureau or move out West as part of a reorganization plan.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved a proposal delayed for nearly a decade due to litigation that authorizes oil and natural gas leasing and development on federal lands across central California.