Phelps Turner
Senior Attorney | CLF Maine | @phelpsturner | He/Him
Phelps Turner is a Senior Attorney for CLF Maine, where he works in the Clean Energy & Climate Change and Healthy Communities & Environmental Justice programs. Before joining CLF, Phelps was an environmental litigation associate at Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen in Boston. Phelps holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University and a Bachelor of Common Law and a Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University. In his free time, Phelps enjoys running, skiing, hiking and canoeing. Phelps is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Quebec, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the District of Maine, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits.
Recent Posts
Aug 1 2023
Last winter’s electricity price spikes showed more clearly than ever the dangers of New England’s dependence on price-volatile fossil fuels. That’s one of the reasons why federal energy regulators came to Portland, Maine, in June to discuss New England’s electricity reliability in the winter months and the region’s over dependence on gas for heat and…
Mar 30 2023
Despite this winter’s relatively mild temperatures (aside from a few cold snaps) – we still felt the pressure of high electricity prices in Maine. In fact, bills nearly doubled – a pattern that we’ll continue to experience as long as we stay dependent on price-volatile fossil fuels like natural gas as the source of our…
Nov 2 2022
New Englanders have made their opinion clear: We want clean energy. So why does our regional grid operator, ISO-New England, continue to push fossil fuels and hinder progress on renewable energy sources – to the point that today we face soaring prices and reliability concerns due to the region’s overreliance on gas? Every winter since…
Mar 5 2020
Every day, children in Maine are exposed to lead paint and dust in their homes and to lead-contaminated water in their schools. When left untreated, lead poisoning robs our children of their futures and results in high social and economic costs. Addressing this public health threat involves a two-pronged approach: We must eliminate these sources…
Jan 8 2020
Most Mainers first learned of the dangers posed by PFAS chemicals two years ago, when news broke that milk from Arundel’s Stoneridge Farm was contaminated with them. The likely culprit: sludge spread on the farm as fertilizer. That troubling news spurred state agencies to take steps to safeguard us from these widely used yet dangerous…
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