Ralph Cavanagh was a senior attorney and co-director of Natural Resources Defense Council's energy program.
[1] 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.
[3] In 2021, Cavanagh took a leave from NRDC and joined the Bipartisan Policy Center, and relocated to the Washington DC area.
[4] Cavanagh has been anti-nuclear energy and was a key architect of the 2016 deal to shut down Diablo Canyon.