Washington, Dec. 4 -- A wide ranging environmental coalition filed comments late yesterday against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) proposed rule to roll back essential elements of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) that give small clean energy resources equal access to electricity markets. The coalition, made up of Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Southern Environmental Law Center, VoteSolar, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Law & Policy Center, argue in the comments that FERC's rollback fundamentally undercuts certainty surrounding the energy price that small clean energy generators receive for producing power, and creates significant new barriers to financeability and development of small pr...