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 today launched a website that's designed to increase adoptions of tens of thousands of wild horses and burros that have been rounded up from federal rangelands.
The Bureau of Land Management is close to approving a large-scale solar power project in Southern California that was once left for dead after its Spain-based developer went bankrupt.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday huddled with more than two dozen conservation group leaders, including some of his staunchest critics, in his latest bid to generate both ideas and support for his ambitious departmental reorganization plans.
A federal judge has overturned the Fish and Wildlife Service's 2015 decision not to list an isolated population of greater sage grouse along the California-Nevada border for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Environmental groups and three landowners are challenging the Bureau of Land Management's decision to offer 287 parcels for oil and gas leasing in Montana, accusing the agency of "turning a blind eye" to the potential impacts of drilling on the region's groundwater and climate.