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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 U.S. 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 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 House today approved a land exchange that paves the way for a long-contested road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, rejecting arguments by Democrats that the road will harm sensitive wildlife and open other refuges to development.
A bipartisan conservation package drew criticism from Democrats at a Senate hearing yesterday for including a provision that would remove federal protection for the Wyoming and western Great Lakes gray wolf populations and block judicial review of that decision.
The House is poised this week to approve a land exchange that would pave the way for construction of an 11-mile-long road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
A proposal to build an 11-mile-long road through Alaska's Izembek National Wildlife Refuge that has sparked heated debate for years is expected to go to the full House for a vote this week.
Senate Democrats want Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to provide them with details about an ongoing review of federal greater sage grouse conservation plans that could result in substantive changes to the Obama-era regulations.