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Needed: Bi-partisan support for rational energy policies - Bill Meadows in the National Journal

TWS President Bill Meadows commented in the National Journal's ongoing "Energy and Environment" forum, calling for an end to unnecessary subsidies for the oil and gas industry, and better support for the burgeoning wind and solar industries in the U.S. Read More at the National Journal Read more

Should the U.S. curb offshore drilling? National Journal asks, we answer

Bill Meadows

The Gulf oil spill disaster is continuing to spew oil into the Gulf of Mexico — and the investigation into what went wrong hasn’t been completed. Further drilling in the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean, could threaten thousands of whales, polar bears, and walruses. Read The Wilderness Society President Bill Meadows’ thoughts about new drilling, hosted on the prestigious National Journal forum. Read more

Wilderness Society calls for drilling timeout

Bill Meadows.

When it comes to national oil drilling policy, the facts on the ground have changed. Instead of leaning on the myth that technology had made oil spill disasters obsolete, the Administration must now face what could become the largest oil spill disaster in our history. Clearly this is not the time to expand drilling as if nothing had changed. The threats to places like the Arctic coast, where there isn’t a fleet of Coast Guard vessels to respond to oil spills, are too great to open up more areas to offshore drilling. Read more

The off-shore drilling debate: Bill Meadows weighs in on National Journal

The Obama Administration’s announcement about drilling the Outer Continental Shelf sent shockwaves through the environmental and energy communities. Wilderness Society President Bill Meadows joins the National Journal’s forum of experts to dissect the decision. Read his blog here.  Read more

Meadows blogs on renewable energy for National Journal

Often times the National Journal’s Energy and Environment blog host forums for experts to post their opinions on topics making the news as of late. Bill Meadows, The Wilderness Society’s President, appreciates these opportunities to engage with others. This week he joined the conversation being hosted by reporter Amy Harder about renewable energy. Read more

New emphasis on protecting old forests in Copenhagen

Here at the Copenhagen Summit the building is a maze of forest of data, side events, booths and actual negotiations over...forests. Forests are part of solving the climate crisis — through both storing carbon and helping ecosystems and communities adapt in a changing world. Read more

TWS President lauds climate bill momentum

Writing for the National Journal’s energy and environment blog this week, Wilderness Society President Bill Meadows praised Senators Boxer and Kerry for their leadership in introducing the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Meadows expressed optimism that U.S. Read more

Calling for a "time out" on offshore leasing in Alaska

This week, National Journal reporter Margaret Kriz asked Bill Meadows and other environmental experts to focus on one of the important environmental decisions facing Interior Secretary Salazar: whether or not to open more of America’s coast to offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling. Read more