Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of

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's energy program. Cavanagh has been with the NRDC since 1979 and was on the Secretary of Energy Advisory board from 1993 to 2003. Cavanagh has served as visiting professor at both Stanford University and

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. Cavanagh has won multiple awards, including the 3rd Annual Heinz Award for Public Policy in 1997, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Mary Kilmarx Award, the Yale Law School's Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, the NW Energy Coalition's Headwaters Award, and the Bonneville Power Administration's Award for Exceptional Public Service.Ralph Cavanagh
Cavanagh graduated from Yale College, where he was a member of the Yale debate team, and the

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. He was married to Deborah Rhode (1952–2021), MacFarland Professor of Law at

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. Cavanagh has been anti-nuclear energy and was a key architect of the 2016 deal to shut down Diablo Canyon. ''The Los Angeles Times'', April 29, 2022.

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