I have worked as an environmental advocate for thirty-five years specializing in federal public lands, Wilderness, national parks and Alaska. In the 1970’s I organized and led the Alaska Coalition pushing the Congress to pass the Alaska National Interest Lands Act of 1980 which created over a 100 million acres of national parks and wildlife refuges and an additional 56 million acres of Wilderness in the state. In addition, I was a leader in getting Congress to pass over 14 million acres of Wilderness in the Lower 48, fought former Interior Secretary James Watt over his exploitative policies, ran the Adirondack Council and have now worked at NRDC for 19 years on Alaska lands, national parks and a wide variety of public lands issues.
Posted April 29, 2011 by Chuck Clusen in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earlier this week NRDC released a report with the International Union for Conservation of Nature highlighting the 13 most vulnerable spots in the Arctic that should be considered for protection as the oil and other industries look to move into the...continued→
Posted January 12, 2011 by Chuck Clusen in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The national oil spill commission report, released Tuesday, makes clear that the oil and gas industry is ill-equipped to handle oil spills and does not have the safety measures needed to prevent them in the first place. The report also...continued→
Posted December 6, 2010 by Chuck Clusen in Curbing Pollution, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today is the 50th birthday of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On December 6, 1960, President Eisenhower established the Arctic Wildlife Range of about 9 million acres in the northeast corner of Alaska after Congress failed to protect it. It...continued→
Posted August 10, 2010 by Chuck Clusen in Curbing Pollution, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There is word on the street that a final decision is imminent from the administration on whether or how to change its Five Year Plan for offshore drilling (2007-2012). And we’re hearing that the Obama Administration may be close to...continued→
Posted May 26, 2010 by Chuck Clusen in Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
BP’s exploratory drilling plan for the Gulf of Mexico and Shell’s exploratory drilling plan for the Arctic this summer are disturbingly similar. As BP’s exploration plan in the Gulf stated, Shell Oil’s Chukchi Sea plan also states, “…a large oil...continued→
Posted November 25, 2008 by Chuck Clusen in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Arctic Region Is under Assault by Global Warming The Arctic region of our earth is undergoing disastrous warming. The Arctic ice pack now shrinks to roughly half the size it had historically. While this year's ice pack decreased to...continued→
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