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 state of Colorado is challenging the Bureau of Land Management's approval of a controversial land management plan, claiming that William Perry Pendley's involvement as the agency's de facto acting director invalidates the plan.
The Trump administration has granted final approval to a controversial highway corridor in Utah that cuts through national conservation land and desert habitat for a threatened tortoise.
The Trump administration today unveiled the latest in a string of last-minute energy proposals, saying a change to a California conservation area would bolster solar, wind and geothermal power project development.
The Trump administration will go out insisting that its controversial revised greater sage grouse protection plans were done correctly and should be implemented, even as a federal judge's order blocking the Bureau of Land Management from doing so remains in place.
The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will equip its roughly 250 uniformed law enforcement rangers with body-worn cameras in an effort to increase transparency in officer interactions with the public.