energy

Wilderness Society Cautiously Welcomes Alaska Component of Offshore Drilling Announcement

Anonymous
Mar 31, 2010

The Wilderness Society today cautiously welcomed the Obama Administration's announcement regarding decisions about offshore oil and gas development in Alaska.

Bill Meadows, the President of The Wilderness Society said:

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Statement on Interior Department announcement on onshore oil and gas leasing

Anonymous
Jan 6, 2010

Following today’s announcement by the Department of the Interior (DOI) regarding onshore oil and gas leasing, Ann Morgan, Vice President of Public Lands for The Wilderness Society, issues this statement in response:

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Arctic Drilling Plan Gets Green Light; Analysis of Impacts Sorely Lacking

Anonymous
Dec 9, 2009

ANCHORAGE - The federal government’s Minerals Management Service put its rubber stamp on a plan today that allows Shell Oil to drill in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea as early as next summer. MMS approved Shell’s exploratory drilling plan without a full analysis of its potentially significant effects on wildlife and Alaska Native subsistence, already threatened by climate change, and despite a lack of fundamental scientific information about the region.

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Interior Prioritizes Solar Energy Development in Six States

Anonymous
Jun 30, 2009

Maps for Development in Six States Will Help Power Nation to Clean Energy Future

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Government Ignores Process: Opens 1.9 Million Acres to Oil Shale Development

Anonymous
Oct 7, 2008

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) undermined the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act when it decided to amend 12 land management plans for Colorado, Utah and Wyoming without providing an opportunity for the public to protest, The Wilderness Society charged in a letter sent today to the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Call to Finance Wall Street Bailout with Arctic Refuge Drilling is a Transparent Ploy for an Oil-Industry Land Grab

Anonymous
Sep 30, 2008

WASHINGTON — This week, as Congress and the Administration have pondered the biggest Wall Street bailout in history, the oil industry and its friends in Congress seized on the week’s news to propose the same old misguided “solution” they offer for everything: drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

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NPR's Diane Rehm show gives us chance to make the case for balancing use of wild lands

Jun 7, 2011

Listen to Wilderness Society President William H. Meadows on the Diane Rehm Show.

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Drilling in Greater Yellowstone: Massive outcry erupts over well pads in wildlife areas

Apr 5, 2011

A proposed 136-well natural gas development in the beloved greater Yellowstone ecosystem south of Jackson, Wyo., has become the most controversial project ever contemplated within the boundaries of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.

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Why I'm joining the blogosphere, aka the facts they don't want you to know

Mar 29, 2011

Greetings.  I am Pete Morton, Director of Economic research at The Wilderness Society.

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What does “clean energy” really mean?

Jan 27, 2011

This week, President Obama delivered a State of the Union Address that reminded us that America is a nation of innovation, whose people find strength and unity in the face of monumental challenges.

And today we have plenty of challenges for our energy policy to pick from: fiscal uncertainty, fossil fuel dependency, and lean budgets to name a few.

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