Environment
Environmental issues and climate change
Rhode Island Attorney General files in support of CLF in Invenergy water case
"Perhaps the oldest branch of conservation law is the law of fresh water allocation. It is inherently the preoccupation of that body of jurisprudence that the long-term sustainability of a collective vital resource not be squandered in t...
Challenge to Invenergy's water deal heats up in Superior Court
"[F]rankly, we don't really care. Why should we? If you turn on a spigot, the water goes into a truck, we don't care whether it goes into a truck, it goes into a bottle, what it goes into." Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) filed its Mem...
Bank of America finances pipelines, FANG is asking that you move your money elsewhere
For the past year and half the FANG Collective has been supporting the L'eau Est La Vie camp that is resisting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Southern Louisiana. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline would connect with the Dakota Access Pipeline syste...
Burrillville hurting their own property values by organizing against power plant, says Invenergy witness
In another day of hearings before Rhode Island Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB), witness Michael Marous said that the yellow signs put up in and around Burrillville do more to hurt property values than the existence of a fracked gas...
Senator Whitehouse's annual climate event details the paucity of our response
There are some who believe that grappling with the issue of climate change requires the complete overhaul of the way our economy works. “There is still time to avoid catastrophic warming,” writes Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything, “...
EFSB weighs employment impacts of proposed Invenergy power plant
"And you'd have no problem with your children breathing it?" asked Burrillville attorney Michael McElroy, referring to the pollution that would be generated by Invenergy's proposed power plant. "No," said Invenergy witness Mark Wiitanen,...
Invenergy press release misleading, says CLF's Jerry Elmer
Invenergy’s July 12 press release saying that “survey work will begin in early August” for the proposed interconnection line is "an obvious effort at misdirection," says Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) Senior Attorney Jerry Elmer. "Inv...
If Invenergy builds a power plant in northwest Rhode Island, this is what we lose...
Representatives from environmental, tourism and conservation groups gathered at Pulaski State Park Tuesday afternoon to warn Rhode Islanders that Invenergy's proposed $1 billion fracked gas and diesel oil burning power plant would have "...
Energy Facilities Siting Board has its third voting member - Meredith Brady
Rhode Island Department of Administration Director Michael DiBiase today announced Meredith Brady – the Administrator for Planning at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) – has been selected as Associate Director of the...
'An accident waiting to happen' - CLF in court with Shell over Port of Providence
Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) was in court today arguing against Shell Oil Company’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the environmental advocacy group. The lawsuit alleges that Shell’s Providence Terminal is in violation of the...