Major national and regional news organizations regularly interview Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus.

ABC News

Trump has ambitious plans for federal land use. He may not be able to accomplish them all.

“Every administration gets to the place where they have to differentiate between the rhetoric that they use in the campaign and the actual challenges when it comes to actually governing,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest University’s Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. The biggest roadblock to Trump’s plans to drill on federally protected lands is whether or not those areas are actually economically competitive, compared to places where people are drilling on private land using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, he said.

November 16, 2024

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

What we don’t know about Trump’s EPA pick and the risks we face

Executive director of Wake Forest University’s Sabin Family Center for Environment writes: “President-elect Donald Trump has again confounded conventional wisdom in nominating former lawmaker and New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to be the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency. This pick signals that Trump continues to value loyalty in choosing America’s next environmental leader.

November 15, 2024