filed under Environment | Politics
Like a broken record…
7:43AM ON
03/27/2008
BY
Dave Segal
Renewables are good. So says Ian, in this week’s Phoenix:
It’s a pretty rare day when lobbyists, environmentalists, and labor officials are all happy about supporting the same legislation — which happens to offer the prospect of economic development for fiscally challenged Rhode Island.
Yet this was the case on March 6, when the leadership of the state Senate unveiled four bills to increase the development and use of renewable forms of energy in Rhode Island. The broad support for the measures reflects the growing sense of possibility — far greater than it was even just two or three years ago — about the multi-faceted promise of tapping wind, solar, wave, and other renewables. As Matt Auten, an advocate for Environment Rhode Island, puts it, “There’s a real opportunity here. We can make a lot of change happen in the next couple of years.”
Damn straight.
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