New CEO Brings 25 Years of Washington Experience to Natural Gas Champion
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Clean Skies
Foundation (ACSF) today announced that Gregory C. Staple, a former partner at
the international law firm Vinson & Elkins, will assume the role of CEO of
ACSF in December 2009. Mr. Staple, an expert on federal regulatory matters,
co-directed Vinson & Elkins' Washington, D.C., climate change program before
joining ACSF this autumn as its senior policy advisor. Mr. Staple has written
widely on pending cap-and-trade legislation to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and related proposals. His essays have appeared in more than 50
publications, including The Environmental Law Forum,Legal Times of Washington
and The American Journal of International Law.
Aubrey K. McClendon, chairman of the foundation and CEO of Chesapeake Energy
Corporation said, "Greg's extensive regulatory background and familiarity with
the key energy and environmental issues being debated in Washington will be a
huge plus for the foundation. In recent months, the national media have
recognized that America's abundant current and future supplies of natural gas
will be a 'game changer' for the country's environmental, energy and national
security policies, and we want ACSF to continue its leadership role in
discussing these issues in the years ahead."
"It is an honor to assume the leadership of ACSF at such a critical time in
the nation's debate on climate and energy matters," said Mr. Staple. "Since
2008, Clean Skies News, an energy and environment network sponsored by ACSF,
has become a leading resource. Now the challenge is to build up ACSF's policy
and regulatory expertise, and then turn our ideas into action," he continued.
"Together, with our growing partnerships and friends in the renewable energy
and environmental communities, I know that we can provide many of the energy
answers to the questions Americans are asking of their leaders in Washington
and elsewhere."
Clean Skies News at U.N. Copenhagen Conference
ACSF also announced that Mr. Staple will represent the organization at the
landmark U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from December
7-18, 2009.
In addition, a Clean Skies News team will report from the conference,
providing in-depth and contextual coverage of this critical event. The
network's unique online interviews and archival footage captured in "Countdown
to Copenhagen" has become one of the foundation's most widely-used resources.
You can access this coverage at http://www.cleanskies.com/.
Mr. Staple graduated from the University of Rochester and received his J.D.
from the University of Michigan. He resides in Chevy Chase, Md.
The American Clean Skies Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
advancing a clean, low-carbon energy future through the increased use of
American natural gas, renewable energy and conservation. The foundation also
provides funding for Clean Skies News, an independent energy and environmental
news service available at www.cleanskies.com and Sunday mornings on WJLA-TV,
the ABC network affiliate in Washington, D.C.
SOURCE American Clean Skies Foundation
Katie Pendergast, +1-202-346-8845, for the American Clean Skies Foundation
