Ralph Cavanagh

National Resources Defense Council

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Co-Director of the Energy and Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council

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Turns out it was old news to energy experts, but this week's report from the International Energy Agency has a lot of others revising their thinking about the domestic production of…

Oil and Gas Boom Reshapes US Energy Landscape

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When the President and Mitt Romney talked about "energy independence" during the recent campaign, it had the sound of an unattainable promise.

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Proposition 7 Sounds Good, So Why Don’t Most Environmentalists Like it?

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