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.
Conservation and Native American groups are once again asking Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for more time to comment on a land-use plan amendment that could expand oil and gas leasing near New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily withdrawing 347,525 acres from a planned Wyoming oil and gas lease sale set for next week because the 282 parcels in question intersect greater sage grouse habitat.
The long-running fight over a proposed open-pit lithium mine that conservation groups say would destroy a rare Nevada wildflower has taken another unexpected turn.
A coalition of Democrats commandeered the Senate floor for nearly an hour yesterday to demand President Trump remove William Perry Pendley as director of the Bureau of Land Management.
The Trump administration is asking a federal court to throw out a lawsuit challenging the authority of William Perry Pendley and Margaret Everson to lead the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service, respectively.