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“I run a group called Climate Change Artists and also I’m with a group called 305.org
as in we have to reduce climate emissions to where carbon goes down to 350 ppm and so
it ties very much into the previous question. I think it’s great that Massachusetts has
such potential in being a leader in developing the technologies around climate change and
it’s really going to be beneficial to us if we put strong climate caps nationally but
also I think Massachusetts has the potential to be an even stronger leader in getting that
started nationally and internationally and then our leadership also will benefit us greatly
and I was wondering if there’s any chance we could take even stronger steps than we
have in Massachusetts to limit our climate emissions and what you think about that?”
“Well it’s a great question. We joined REGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
as you know, and we’ve had the first two auctions now, so we’ve actually shown that
it can work. We’ve used all those proceeds to pile back into grants and other supports
to expand the clean-tech sector. The emissions standards that the President signed the other
day a few weeks ago, the agreement between all the car companies and the states, I was
there because we’ve been in the lead with California before I came to office and we’ve
kept. So I’d say we participated in shaping the national discourse on that and I said
our own clean-tech sector is growing on all fronts: wind, solar, biofuels and biodiesels,
I don’t know if you know about Q Microbe and Q teros and what they’re doing out in
Western Massachusetts. It’s incredibly exciting stuff that’s going on right now and that
Martin is asking the question about Cape Wind and you’re asking the questions you are
makes me think that we better do a better job at telling you what’s going on because
it’s incredibly exciting right now in Massachusetts.”