Dear CLF friends.

• Author: Warburg, Philip
• Position: Conservation Law Foundation - Brief article

IT'S BEEN QUITE A SEASON OF CLF SUCCESSES!

In the battle against climate change, CLF advocates have worked hard to advance new laws that will loosen fossil fuels' stranglehold on New England's economy and environment. New England's last holdout--New Hampshire-has finally joined nine other Northeast states in capping carbon emissions from power plants by signing onto the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Maine has enacted a law that paves the way for the nation's first limits on carbon dioxide emissions from next-generation coal gasification power plants. And Massachusetts has just adopted the Green Communities Act, putting energy efficiency on an even playing field with new power generation and mandating long-term utility contracts with renewable energy suppliers.

Another resounding CLF victory came in our lawsuit against the Massachusetts Highway Department, a leading polluter of the Bay State's waterways through its shoddy control of stormwater running off its roads and bridges...