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.
William Perry Pendley thanked the Bureau of Land Management's employees in an all-staff email for completing the headquarters move to Colorado and for keeping public lands open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A bipartisan coalition of congressional leaders is urging Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to cancel another key pillar in the Trump administration's aggressive plan to curb growing wild horse and burro herds.
The Interior Department is sprinting to convince a federal judge to allow it to implement controversial greater sage grouse plan revisions before President Trump leaves office.
A coalition of more than 100 environmental groups is urging congressional appropriators to reject a provision in the Senate Interior-Environment fiscal 2021 funding bill prohibiting regulators from listing the greater sage grouse for federal protection.
President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is searching for a long-term career official to lead the Bureau of Land Management on an acting basis through the first six months or more of next year.