Right now, Maine – along with the rest of New England – is shaping its energy future. In the next month, the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will decide whether the state becomes the first in the region to enter into a contract for a massive, polluting natural gas pipeline. In a proceeding that has taken more…
May 3
2016
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Apr 21
2016
2016
Kinder Morgan Pipeline’s End is Good News for Clean Energy
Late yesterday, CLF declared a victory in our fight to end our region’s addiction to climate-warming fossil fuels when gas giant Kinder Morgan announced it is pulling the plug on its Northeast Energy Direct (NED) natural gas pipeline. A Flawed Project That Was Never Needed The project as proposed was flawed from the outset. For…
Apr 11
2016
2016
Weather Woes, Climate Innovation
The region’s rollercoaster weather, with the warmest winter in recorded history, followed by frigid temperatures now, calls out for taking bold action to tackle climate change. Never-ending muddy roads and expanding potholes wreak havoc on our cars. More rain than snow makes for terrible skiing. The icy pavement and sidewalks have sent more than one…
Feb 2
2016
2016
Coal-Fired Power Plant Owner Shows No Commitment to Bridgeport or the Environment
A little over a year ago, the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, home of one of the last coal-fired power plants in New England, passed a resolution calling for the plant’s owner, PSEG, to shut down the 50-year old behemoth and rehabilitate the property for its next use. But PSEG decided instead to double-down in Bridgeport,…
Jan 15
2016
2016
CLF’s Next 50 Years: Shaping the World We Want for our Children and Grandchildren
2016 is a pivotal year for CLF.
This is the year that CLF turns 50. Since 1966, we have turned impossible odds into incredible milestones, protecting the things we all love about New England – our beautiful coasts and ocean, our mountains, our farms and forests – to ensure that our communities, our friends, and neighbors can thrive.
But, celebrating our first 50 years is not about looking backward. It’s about laying a strong foundation for our fight for New England’s future and the healthy, thriving world we want our children and grandchildren to inherit 50 years from now.
Jan 13
2016
2016
CLF Takes Next Step in Fight against Massive New Kinder Morgan Pipeline
In our drive to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline’s march through New England, today Conservation Law Foundation officially intervened to oppose the oversized and unnecessary project at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). We are confident that Kinder Morgan will not be able to justify this project economically if FERC carefully assesses the regional need…
Dec 8
2015
2015
Natural Gas Subsidies Are Harming, Not Helping our Climate
At the Paris Climate Talks, wealthy nations are being confronted with uncomfortable truths about our energy choices – particularly which energy technologies and fuels we need to support to stave off the drastic effects of climate change and which fuels we actually do support through our policies and subsidies.
Dec 7
2015
2015
A Common-Sense Approach to Pipeline Review Could Help Save our Climate
When it comes to greenlighting dirty energy projects such as massive (and unnecessary) fossil-fuel pipeline build-outs, FERC seems bent on following an outdated “business as usual” approach. But as President Obama has declared in Paris, “business as usual” isn’t good enough, anymore.
Dec 2
2015
2015
Three Things You Can Do Today to Help Stop Invenergy’s Polluting Fossil-Fuel Power Plant
Update 1/6/15: Our online action alert makes it even easier to contact Rhode Island leaders and tell them to stop the Invenergy plant. Take action now! One day after the Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) opened a Docket to consider whether or not to grant Invenergy the necessary permit for its proposed natural-gas-fired…
Nov 23
2015
2015
Invenergy Plant Won’t Deliver the Promised Ratepayer Savings
Update 1/6/15: Our online action alert makes it even easier to contact Rhode Island leaders and tell them to stop the Invenergy plant. Take action now! The proposal to build a new 900 megawatt (MW) fossil-fuel-fired power plant in Burrillville Rhode Island raises three important issues. The first, most important, overriding issue is climate change.…