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 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 moving forward with plans to work around a federal court order and offer tens of thousands of acres of greater sage grouse habitat in planned oil and gas lease sales early next year.
An environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management, accusing BLM of withholding records on the potential impacts of a large-scale oil and gas development project on sensitive plant and wildlife species in Wyoming.
Conservation groups say they have submitted tens of thousands of comments to the Bureau of Land Management expressing concerns about a draft management plan for the revised Bears Ears National Monument in Utah as the public comment period closes today.
The Interior Department released data today it says show the Trump administration's promotion of energy development on federal lands is generating billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
The Bureau of Land Management will conduct a detailed study evaluating a large-scale wind project in western New Mexico covering nearly 30,000 acres of federal lands.