Which is why this week legislation that would protect these lands was introduced yet again, granting these lands another opportunity for well-deserved recognition and conservation.
Every year, Congress has the choice to preserve wild areas by passing legislation that protects the wildest of them as federally designated wilderness.
This coalition letter, addressed to Majority Leader Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Boehner, requests that Congress prioritize the consideration of pending legislation affecting America’s citizens, communities, public lands and waters before the close o
Next week the House Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up the American Clean Energy Security Act (H.R. 2454), a groundbreaking piece of legislation introduced by the committee’s chair, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), who chairs the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. The following statement was issued by Wilderness Society president Bill Meadows as the committee prepared to release compromise language expected to receive the support of a majority of members.
