I want personally to reach out to our supporters to talk about the election and its impact on our work here at CLF. For us and I am sure for you, Donald Trump’s victory was a stunning and disturbing end to a disheartening election – disheartening because our priorities as an organization and our values…
Nov 15
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Oct 13
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Guest Blog: You Can’t Get There from Here: Protecting Irreplaceable Wildlife Corridors
Scott Comings is the Associate State Director of The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island. In his role at The Nature Conservancy, he has worked with and facilitated hundreds of scientific research projects in the state, participated in multiple statewide habitat assessments and overseen stewardship of all of the Conservancy’s Rhode Island lands since 2009. Previous…
Sep 29
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More Nails in the Coffin for Spectra’s Pipeline Expansion Project?
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued a pair of decisions that underscores the dimming prospects for Spectra’s once-dreamed-of pipeline expansion to bring more fracked gas north over a pipeline dubbed “Access Northeast.” In one decision, the federal agency rejected a request by Spectra subsidiary Algonquin to waive market rules designed to cut down…
Sep 27
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Clean Power Plan Gets Its Day in Court
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is hearing oral arguments in a monumental climate change case. At issue is the Clean Power Plan, the most ambitious action ever taken by the federal government to control carbon emissions and tackle global climate change. The Clean Power Plan outlines the first-ever…
Sep 1
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Don’t Believe the Hype: Solar Power Benefits All Mainers
Mainers like solar power, they want more of it, and they don’t want to change how solar panel owners are paid for it. That’s the take-home message of comments Maine residents submitted to the state’s Public Utilities Commission in its current proceeding to review how solar power customers are reimbursed for the power they produce.…
Aug 11
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Maine PUC Chooses Polluting Pipeline Over Consumers
The Maine Public Utilities Commission recently approved pursuing a contract that would force electricity consumers to subsidize Spectra Energy’s massive new polluting natural gas pipeline, Access Northeast (ANE). The PUC’s decision cuts deep into your pocketbook and sets Maine and New England on a course to upend our climate goals. One Billion Dollars Down the…
Jul 10
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Breaking The Fossil-Fuel Habit
… ExxonMobil should be next. Like Volkswagen, it too profited from its deceit. It knew the real risks of global warming long ago. Knowing about melting ice sheets, they made strategic investments in ice-laden northern areas where oil would be more accessible as a result of global warming. Read more here by Sandra Levine, a…
Jun 14
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Invenergy Knowingly Exaggerated the Cost Savings to Customers from Its Proposed Power Plant
Invenergy has a proposal before Rhode Island’s Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) to build a new 900-megawatt fossil-fuel plant in Burrillville. CLF is litigating in both the EFSB and the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to prevent Invenergy from getting the permits it needs. Today, CLF is filing in the PUC the testimony of two…
Jun 8
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Public Hearing: Vermont Gas Systems Rates
The Vermont Public Service Board will be holding a public hearing on a planned rate increase and use of customer funds to support expansion of Vermont Gas facilities. Vermont Gas Systems – Rates & Use of Customer Funds for Pipeline Thursday evening, June 16, 2016 7:00 p.m Colchester High School 131 Laker Lane, Colchester, VT Climate…
May 6
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Taking Big Gas to Court
Yesterday, CLF appeared before Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court in a case that could dramatically impact our climate future in the Commonwealth and across New England. At the heart of the case is whether the state’s Department of Public Utilities can force businesses and families to finance multi-million-dollar investments in new natural gas pipelines and other…