The National Wildlife Federation took another boat trip today, gauging the impacts of the oil spill on Gulf Coast wildlife. This time, NWF’s Larry Schweiger and Karla Raettig spotted a … Read more
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NWF President Visits Louisiana Bird Rescue Center
Larry Schweiger, president & CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, visited the bird rescue center in Fort Jackson today: Help ensure NWF has the funding needed to be on the … Read more
Louisiana Fishing Boat Captain Reels in Spilled Oil
This is one of the fishing boat captains we’d chartered yesterday to provide tours of critical Gulf Coast wildlife habitats guided by National Wildlife Federation staffers. Today, he went out … Read more
The Scene in Louisiana: Disaster Looming
A local tells us the area economy is dependent on two businesses – fishing & oil, and now one might kill the other. Read more
Big Oil Meets Big Nature in Louisiana
By Larry J. Schweiger I write this from Venice, Louisiana, a few days after the explosion at British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig set off a massive oil spill … Read more
NWF President Visits Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Larry Schweiger, president & CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, is leading a team of NWF staffers to the areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill. Oil continues to … Read more
Breaking: Gulf Coast Oil Spill Now Projected to Make Landfall Tonight
The oil spill forecast is now looking like some of the worst-case scenarios we’ve been hearing. Read more
This Week’s Climate Capsule: Earth Day Recap & Dirty’s Fuel
In this week’s NWF Climate Capsule, pushing the Senate to move now on clean energy & climate action, an Earth Day thank you & Dirty the Global Warming Denier Sock Puppet channels Napoleon Dynamite.
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How Much Oil Under Arctic Refuge? Drilling Proponents Wildly Off
How much oil sits under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An informal survey shows some of the people yelling “drill baby drill” the loudest have very little idea. Read more
Let’s Go Slow on Oil Shale
Underneath a 1,300 square mile area along the T-shaped border of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming lies more estimated oil–in the form of oil shale–than all the oil in of Saudi … Read more
