Experts Available to Discuss Murkowski Energy Bill

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TO POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

Experts Available to Discuss Murkowski Energy Bill

ALABAMA, WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -/E-Wire/Business Wire/-- Sen. Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) will release energy legislation on Monday

that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other wildlands to

oil drilling; provide more taxpayer subsidies to polluters; and roll back

environmental and health protections.

EMS has compiled a list of experts who can discuss the environmental

provisions of the bill and U.S. energy policy in general. The list is at

http://www.ems.org/bush_cheney/energy_experts.html.

Following is a sample of the experts included:

· Dan Lashof, senior scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council.

Media contact is Elliott Negin, 202/289-2405 or [REDACTED-EMAIL].

· Alden Meyer, director of government relations, Union of

Concerned Scientists. 202/223-6133 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

· Deborah Williams, executive director, Alaska Conservation

Foundation, Anchorage, and special assistant to the Secretary of the

Interior for Alaska under Bruce Babbitt, 907/276-1917

· Faith Gemmill, spokesperson, Gwich'in Steering Committee,

· Pamela Miller, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist,

expert on oil drilling impacts, 202/544-5205 Climate Change

· Alden Meyer, director of government relations, Union of

Concerned Scientists. 202/223-6133 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

· Dan Becker, director, Global Warming and Energy Program, Sierra

Club; contact press office in Washington, [REDACTED-PHONE] or in San

Francisco, [REDACTED-PHONE]

· Anna Aurilio, legislative director, U.S. PIRG, 202/546-9707 ext.

Drilling on public lands, transfer of federal oversight to states:

· David Alberswerth, director, BLM Program, The Wilderness

Society. 202/429-2695 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

· Johanna Wald, director of the lands program, Natural Resources

Defense Council, San Francisco. Media contact is Craig Noble, 415/777-0220

· Gwen Lachelt, executive director, Oil & Gas Accountability Project,

Colorado. 970/259-3353 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Impacts to national forests, roadless areas and wildlife refuges:

· Michael Francis, director of National Forests Program, The

Wilderness Society, 202/429-2662, [REDACTED-EMAIL]

· Noah Matson, refuge program manager, Defenders of Wildlife.

202/682-9400, ext. 294 or [REDACTED-EMAIL].

· Tiernan Sittenfeld, U.S. PIRG, 202/546-9707 ext. 311

Rollback of environmental protections

· Gwen Lachelt, executive director, Oil & Gas Accountability Project,

Colorado. 970/259-3353 or [REDACTED-EMAIL]

· Anna Aurilio, legislative director, U.S. PIRG, 202/546-9707 ext.

Air pollution standards

· Jason Mark, Clean Vehicles program director, Union of Concerned

Scientists. 617/547-5552 or cell, 510/551-3289

· Alan Nogee, Clean Energy program director, Union of Concerned

Scientists. [REDACTED-PHONE] or [REDACTED-PHONE]

· Becky Stanfield, U.S. PIRG, 202/546-9707 ext. 308

Environmental Media Services

Jan Vertefeuille, EMS, 202/463-6670

http://www.ems.org/bush_cheney/energy_experts.html

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