Oct 03, 2023
Vermont Affordable Heat Act: What Comes Next
This landmark law aims to clean up how we heat our homes and buildings. Now we need to implement it effectively so that it achieves its goal.
Tag: Clean Energy & Climate Change
Sep 27, 2023
We Can Solve Big Ag’s Climate Problem – But Not with “Renewable” Natural Gas
A proposal to build an anaerobic digester on Vermont’s largest dairy farm is not the climate solution its proponents claim it to be.
Sep 05, 2023
The Truth about Hydrogen
Big Gas and Oil and utility companies are urging us to use hydrogen like we do other fossil fuels – which will damage the climate and our health
Aug 31, 2023
Climate Change Worsens Extreme Weather in New England
Clean energy can help us slash the carbon pollution driving heat waves, storms, and floods.
Aug 16, 2023
New Study: Going 100% with Clean Car Rule Would Deliver $21 Billion in Societal Benefits
Maine’s proposed rule to spur electric vehicle purchases should go farther
Aug 11, 2023
CLF Opposing “Renewable” Gas Facility on VT Farm
“The Bellevue Project makes no economic or environmental sense,” said Elena Mihaly, Vice President of CLF Vermont. “Vermont should prioritize projects that help farms avoid producing climate-damaging emissions in the first place. Projects like this one generate as much polluting methane as possible, lock farms into industrial dairying, and saddle Vermonters with the bill for expensive, unnecessary gas infrastructure.”
Aug 08, 2023
Rhode Island Begins Clean Car Process
“Harmful emissions from gas-powered cars and trucks are driving the climate crisis and polluting the air in our communities,” said CLF attorney James Crowley. “Rhode Island has an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis while cleaning up the air in our neighborhoods. It’s time to ditch fossil fuels once and for all, and these new rules will help us get there.”
Aug 04, 2023
Putting Massachusetts Climate Laws Into Action
Here’s how and why CLF is pushing the Healey administration to reach net zero by 2050.
Aug 01, 2023
Clean Energy Garners Praise But Big Gas Doubles Down in Regional Electricity Forum
While Big Gas is still trying to peddle its climate-damaging products, regional officials seem poised to recognize the power of solar and wind energy.
Jul 27, 2023
Mass. Utilities Charging Customers for Storm Cleanup
“Allowing these companies to keep charging customers for storm cleanup over and over is an outrage,” said Johannes Epke, CLF. “It should be up to the utilities to make their infrastructure resilient to the frequent, climate-driven storms we’re seeing more and more. It’s time to change state rules that allow these companies to pass the bill on to Massachusetts families and businesses and hold utilities responsible instead.”
