… The Invenergy power plant is not needed in the short-term or medium-term or long-term,” said Jerry Elmer, Conservation Law Foundation’s senior attorney. He’s citing one witness testifying on behalf of CLF, which is participating in the review process underway with the state’s Energy Facility Siting Board. Read more here…
… The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation filed an objection to the settlement over related concerns. Read more here…
… Moving beyond electric energy efficiency, Vermonters now have an array of opportunities to install solar to meet electricity needs. Read more by CLF Senior Attorney Sandy Levine…
… whether or not Invenergy‘s proposed fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant gets built in their town has been reviewed by Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer, and his verdict is clear… Read more here…
… In another surprising victory for children suing the government over climate change, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last Friday found in favor of four youth plaintiffs against the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here…
… The students were joined by the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and lawyers from the Conservation Law Foundation. They argued that the state misinterpreted the Global Warming Solutions Act — a 2008 state law that requires a 25-percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and an 80-percent reduction by 2050. Read more here…
… In the case, the Conservation Law Foundation, the Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance and four teenage plaintiffs had argued that the state Department of Environmental Protection failed to enforce the 2008 law, which established a goal of reducing emissions by 25 percent by 2020. Read more here…
… The state’s highest court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and sided with environmental groups that sued Massachusetts for failing to adopt strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Lawyers for the Conservation Law Foundation, the Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance and four Boston and Wellesley teenagers had asked the courts to rule that the state hasn’t… Continue reading Court: Massachusetts Failed to Adopt Greenhouse Gas Limits
… “The idea that increasing the supply in New England will drive down electricity prices is speculative, and worse than that it’s speculation on the backs of our electricity customers,” says Greg Cunningham, an energy analyst at the Conservation Law Foundation. … Read more here…
… “The market reaction of Kinder Morgan answers the question,” said Greg Cunningham, a vice president at the Conservation Law Foundation. “If they felt that in the near term they could have made money, they would have stuck with it.” Cunningham said that the last three years have shown just how volatile energy markets are,… Continue reading Hearings Begin Thursday on Plan to Expand Maine’s Natural Gas Pipeline Capacity
