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 chairman of the powerful House Natural Resources Committee is ramping up pressure on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to undo the Trump-era decision to move the Bureau of Land Management's headquarters to Colorado.
The Biden administration is signaling that it won't follow the Trump-era approach to managing wild horses and burros, ditching plans approved last year to test a controversial sterilization method on wild mares in Utah.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland today swept away many of her Republican predecessors' executive policies, revoking in one fell swoop myriad secretarial orders governing fossil fuel development and other hot-button issues.
House Republicans say they will fight an orphan well-plugging bill pushed by Democrats because they oppose bonding requirements and fees designed to ensure oil and gas companies have set aside enough money in the future to pay to clean up abandoned wells instead of taxpayers.
The Interior Department today tapped the brakes on a last-minute series of Trump administration orders that proposed to open as much as 28 million acres of federal lands in Alaska to mining and other mineral extraction activities.