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Having come
to politics sort of through the activists
a policy side of things
I knew that this bill was out there there's a bill called the global warming solutions act
and only five other states have passed similar legislation
the bill was basically
dead on arrival
those basically said
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a bunch of my friends who were on the outside of politics the activist community
%uh and and I and some good-hearted legislators they really care about these things back together
then we decided to on pull it out of the mud
and we did
and we work for the speaker's office we held a press conference on the state house stairs
and
%uh inside the grand staircase and got a lot of attention got a lot of press
and lo and behold on the last day of a formal session July thirty first
this legislation was passed
leading up to that I was able to give my maiden speech on this
where I spoke about them the greens not the green jobs
that comes something that that that means that a carbon cap
would generate and moving us towards a green economy 0:01:12.510,0:01:15.110 a personal
highlight and something good for the commonwealth as well as well
the point
the point i'd like to make though is that it really has to be a model and be applied
elsewhere
though as on Massachusetts cannot solve this
on global problem
on our own
on okay so said that it's not easy being green
thank goodness process and you practiced
on okay that this legislative session actually broke a lot of ground
in non Massachusetts by history
this has been reduced
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%uh played by many measures
%uh we are the envy
of on of other states
we care about these things we passed the green communities act which was an energy bill
and and I will give caveat that none of these pieces of legislation were perfect
but as a whole a big step in the right direction
on the economy green communities acts on had of things for
green buildings and down
and it's clear are energy sources
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provided sort of in overlay for
establishing renewable energy of wind farms in our seas also protecting
parts of our coastline that needs protection
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green energy biofuels act that's pretty self-explanatory and global warming solutions act and then
a separate out publicly job back
so they had basically five pieces of legislation
%uh the boston globe
%uh have a little fun that picture there's actually from the boston globe the state house
turning green
and they had a little bit of fun with comparing California
to Massachusetts and they made a lot out of of arnold schwarzenegger and our governor
deval Patrick having this green competition between them
and their deputies their secretaries of energy
arm wrestling to see who is the greenest state
and that's what I call a healthy competition
that I think we'll be okay
the whole on experience it from from ten years ago eleven years ago when people's
when they mentioned global warming people would look at me like I had twelve heads
and this is adecade later it needs to happen faster
but the progress is notable
and %uh moving in the right direction so I am
very hopeful