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 8
2015
2015
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energy projects such as massive (and unnecessary) fossil-fuel pipeline build-outs, FERC seems bent on following an outdated “business as usual” approach.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.…
Nov 20
2015
2015
The Invenergy Plant Is Not Needed To Prevent Blackouts
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! Invenergy wants to build a $700 million fossil fuel power plant in Burrillville, Rhode Island, that will continue emitting large amounts of carbon pollution for as long as 40…
Apr 30
2015
2015
Vermont is Burning the Furniture
Vermont legislators are scrambling to plug the budget – and there are plans to raid funding for heating efficiency to do that. This is troubling on many levels. It raids monies from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to backfill another shortage. It also comes on top of the proposal to shortchange energy efficiency as part of otherwise…
Feb 10
2015
2015
Halted: VT Gas Pipeline
Welcome news from Vermont Gas Systems that it will not proceed with Phase 2 of its expensive and polluting natural gas pipeline. Over recent months, project costs have skyrocketed and pollution impacts increased. New gas pipelines lock us into continued fossil fuel use for decades into the future are a bad bet for our climate…
Dec 4
2014
2014
Coming Clean: Strengthening EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Even if it’s hard for our brains to accept, we all know the impacts to come from climate change if we don’t significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions now and throughout the century: food insecurity, species extinction, and dramatically severe weather events. If that news isn’t sobering enough, we’ll also face a rapidly decreasing ability to…
Oct 2
2014
2014
The Market Speaks — Maine (and New England) Should Listen
The preliminary conclusions are in on Maine’s proposed gambit to invest ratepayer money on natural gas pipeline expansion—it’s not worth the risk. Those were the findings of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) staff in its recommendations to the Commission issued last night. The staff report finds that the cost of using ratepayer money to…
Jul 10
2014
2014
CLF Appeals Withholding of Public Records on Regional Energy Plans
Conservation Law Foundation filed appeals in Vermont and Massachusetts regarding the withholding of public documents about the development of the New England Governors’ regional energy plans, which include gas pipeline and hydropower projects. CLF requested these documents in March to bring transparency to the process surrounding the Governors’ plans, which to date have been shrouded…