Bobby Magill

About

I'm a journalist covering public lands and water for Bloomberg Law, part of Bloomberg Industry Group, in the Washington, D.C. area. I'm a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists Board of Directors and was SEJ president from 2016-2019. As board president, I served on the inaugural seven-member jury for the Fundación BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication in Madrid in October 2019. I served on the board from 2015-2021 and was re-elected in 2023. At Bloomberg, I cover the EPA Office of Water and the Interior Department, focusing on federal lands policy, endangered species, water supply in the West, and the Clean Water Act. I've covered three United Nations international climate negotiations, including COP24 in Poland, COP25 in Madrid, and COP26 in Glasgow. I've reported on critical minerals prospecting in Alaska's Brooks Range, federally-protected waters near Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, small modular nuclear reactors in Oregon, overgrazed public lands in northern Nevada, and much more. My journalism and photography experience spans the country. I’ve lived and worked in small towns in New Mexico and Colorado, but also New York City and Washington, D.C. My work has also appeared in Scientific American, the Guardian, Bloomberg News, Grist, Salon, Quartz, Weather.com and other publications. My freelance work has appeared in Climate Liability News, Popular Mechanics, the former NewWest.net, High Country News and the New Mexico Business Journal.