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.
A coalition of environmental groups today sued the Fish and Wildlife Service, hoping to force it to drop an elk winter-feeding program in Wyoming that they say is helping spread a fatal disease that threatens elk, mule deer and moose.
Republicans and Democrats are lining up to praise and decry final revisions to Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans unveiled today by the Interior Department, underscoring the deep partisan divide over the iconic bird and public lands management.
The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the plug on a wild horse and burro policy that animal rights advocates worried would make it easier to sell the animals for slaughter.
The Trump administration has finalized revisions to Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans that include a number of provisions that could allow for oil and gas drilling, mining activity, and other development near sensitive grouse habitat.
Outdoor advocates and lawmakers said yesterday Congress needs to act now, with memories of the successful lands package still fresh, to increase public access to recreational activities.