Around CLF.

• Position: Conservation Law Foundation

MAINE

* The proposed LNG facility in Calais, ME opposed by CLF continues to seek funding. On August 10, the company requested to postpone hearings on the facility and was granted an additional month to find another investor.

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* On August 10, CLF Staff Attorney Jane West spoke at a US-PIRG event on sustainable transportation in front of City Hall in Portland, ME.

MASSACHUSETTS

* On July 8, as a result of CLF advocacy, MA Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles issued a decisive, science-based policy directive on biomass energy for the state.

* On June 24, CLF filed a federal suit against Salem Harbor Station coal-fired power plant in Salem, MA for repeatedly violating smokestack emissions Limits.

* CLF's Boston office welcomed Samantha Caravello as Program Assistant for the Ocean Conservation Program and Elizabeth Scott as Individual Giving Manager.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

* On June 13, New Hampshire Advocacy Center Director Tom Irwin's op-ed on nutrient pollution in the Great Bay Estuary was published in the Portsmouth Herald.

RHODE ISLAND

* On August 20, CLF appealed the Public Utility Commission's decision to approve a power purchase agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid for a wind project in Block Island Sound on the grounds that the decision was unconstitutional.

* In August, CLF launched its "Trash Talk" campaign with radio station WBRU-FM to educate listeners about the environmental impacts of waste.

* The CLF-led Coalition for Transportation Choices secured legislative support for public transit projects in the Providence area.

VERMONT

* On July 21, CLF filed a supplemental petition again requesting that the EPA take control of regulating water quality in the state. The current program, run by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, has failed to reduce pollution in the state's waterways, including Lake Champlain.

* CLF Clean Water & Healthy Forests Program Director Chris Kilian was invited to participate in a national dialogue hosted by River Network on effective...