'''Ralph Cavanagh''' was a senior attorney and co-director of Natural Resources Defense Council's energy program.<ref>Kate Galbraith. [http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/a-new-energy-regulator-takes-the-helm/ A New Energy Regulator Takes the Helm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131213724/http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/a-new-energy-regulator-takes-the-helm/ |date=2009-01-31 }} ''The New York Times'', January 26, 2009.</ref> Cavanagh was with the NRDC from 1979 to 2023 and was on the Secretary of Energy Advisory board from 1993 to 2003. Cavanagh has served as visiting professor at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/ralph-cavanagh |title=Ralph Cavanagh receives the Heinz Award |access-date=2009-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215083633/http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/ralph-cavanagh |archive-date=2009-12-15 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref name=rc>[http://www.rnp.org/About/bios/bio_Cavanagh.html Ralph Cavanagh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824132523/http://www.rnp.org/About/bios/bio_Cavanagh.html |date=2009-08-24 }}</ref>
Cavanagh graduated from Yale College, where he was a member of the Yale debate team, and the Yale Law School. He was married to Deborah Rhode (1952–2021), MacFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.<ref name=rc/>
In 2021, Cavanagh took a leave from NRDC and joined the Bipartisan Policy Center, and relocated to the Washington DC area.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ralph Cavanagh {{!}} Bipartisan Policy Center |url=https://bipartisanpolicy.org/person/ralph-cavanagh/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=bipartisanpolicy.org |language=en}}</ref>
Cavanagh has been anti-nuclear energy and was a key architect of the 2016 deal to shut down Diablo Canyon. <ref name=Latines>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-04-29/california-promised-to-close-its-last-nuclear-plant-now-newsom-is-reconsidering |title = California promised to close its last nuclear plant}} ''The Los Angeles Times'', April 29, 2022. </ref>
==See also== *Renewable energy *Energy conservation in the United States
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