Phelps Turner
Senior Attorney | CLF Maine | 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
Feb 8 2024
What’s at Stake? From dangerous storm flooding to extreme heat, climate change impacts communities in Maine already. But not everyone faces those threats equally. Low-income residents, populations of color, and historically underserved communities get hit first and worst. The reason? Years of discriminatory laws and policies have silenced them when making decisions affecting their own…
Oct 17 2023
Next month, Mainers will vote on whether to replace the state’s two investor-owned electric utilities with a single publicly owned power company, Pine Tree Power. There’s no question that Central Maine Power (CMP) and Versant have performance, reliability, and customer service issues – issues their customers are, understandably, fed up with. Maine’s residents and businesses…
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…
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