Historic Auto Emissions Trial Begins In Vermont Case Pits Automakers vs. VT and Environmentalists in Battle over Global Warming
Contact: Colin Durrant CLF Director of Communications, (617) 850-1722 Burlington, VT (April 10, 2007) A historic trial began today in Vermont that will, for the first time, decide whether the state has the authority under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce global warming pollution from cars and trucks. The case pits two major automakers…
Supreme Court Reject’s Bush Administration’s Inaction On Global Warming Emissions From Cars
Contact: Colin Durrant CLF Communications Director, (617) 850-1722 (April 2, 2007) In a victory for states and environmental groups, the Supreme Court today said the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency the right to reduce global warming pollution by regulating toxic emissions from cars and trucks. The Conservation Law Foundation, the only New…
Cape Wind Clear State Environmental Hurdle: CLF Lauds Administration’s Commitment to Clean Energy
Boston, MA (March 30, 2007) Cape Wind cleared an important state environmental review hurdle today as Secretary of Environment and Energy Ian Bowles approved the project’s Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR). The Conservation Law Foundation, New England ’s leading environmental group, praised Bowles’ decision, saying it was the right result after years of rigorous environmental…
Pollution from Salem Plant Up According to New Data HealthLink and CLF Call for Faster Adoption of Emissions Controls
Salem, MA (March 30, 2007) Hazardous air pollution from Dominion Energy’s Salem power plant increased 37% in 2005, making it the second worst polluting plant in the state, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The new data prompted HealthLink and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) to call on Dominion to move…
CLF Statement On Transportation Finance Commission Report
Contact: Colin Durrant Director of Communications, (617) 850-1722 Boston, MA (March 28, 2007) Conservation Law Foundation Staff Attorney Carrie Russell today released the following statement in response to the release of the Transportation Finance Commission’s funding report: “The Commission’s report confirms what many of us already know all too well – that our state’s roads,…
Destructive Fishing Fleet Shipped Offshore CLF Teams with Fishermen to Protect Gulf of Maine Food Supply for Cod, Tuna, Striped Bass, and Whales
Contact: Roger Fleming Senior Staff Attorney, (207)729-7733 New England (March 16, 2006) – The Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading ocean advocacy organization, today applauded the National Marine Fisheries Service for its final approval of Amendment 1 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan. The new plan includes an important new provision to help restore…
Citing Global Warming, Environmentalists Urge Immediate Approval Of Cape Wind Environmental Impact Report
Contact: Colin Durrant CLF Director of Communications (617) 850-1722 Boston, MA (March 23, 2007) Environmentalists and clean energy groups today urged the state’s Secretary of Environment and Energy, Ian Bowles, to immediately approve the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. In their public comments on the FEIR, the…
CLF Argues I-93 Widening Flawed In Court Hearing
Contact: Tom Irwin, CLF Staff Attorney (603) 225-3060 Melissa Hoffer, NH Advocacy Center Director (603) 225-3060 Concord, NH (March 16, 2007) The N.H. Department of Transportation (NHDOT) and Federal Highway Administration violated federal law while rushing to push through their proposed I-93 widening, argued the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) in a federal court hearing today.…
National Grid Blasted By Environmentalists For Attempts To Skirt Renewable Energy Standard
Contact: Jerry Elmer, CLF Staff Attorney (401) 351-1102, jelmer@clf.org Three prominent environmental groups today blasted National Grid’s attempt to skirt global warming standards that would require the company to invest in renewable energy projects, like wind and solar. In formal comments to the Public Utility Commission on Docket 3765, which pertains to Rhode Island’s so-called…
Landmark Global Warming Bill Introduced in Maine Environment Groups Praise Innovative Approach
Contacts: Steve Hinchman, CLF Staff Attorney (207) 729-7733 ext. 13 Today a bipartisan group of legislators has taken an unprecedented step toward controlling global warming pollution in Maine. LD 1090, “An Act To Authorize the State’ s Participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” would establish mandatory limits on global warming pollution from Maine electric…