Meanwhile, Willard underlined last week how critical it is that we get a member of a responsible political party into the State House in November. “Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will not rejoin a regional pact to regulate greenhouse gases despite the urging of the state’s congressional delegation, a spokesman said,” according to Reuters.
All in keeping with the New Romney: as intolerant and anti-environment as Kerry Healey’s new best friend Dick Cheney. Indeed, His Excellency’s response to this political volley by the state’s congressional delegation suggests Cheney might as well be running our state’s environmental policy.
“Massachusetts helped form the pact, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, with governors from states in the U.S. Northeast, in the absence of federal policy to regulate the gases scientists link to global warming.
“But late last year Romney, a Republican, pulled out of the agreement which seeks to cut carbon dioxide emissions at power plants 20 percent by 2019. Romney, who is expected to run for U.S. president in 2008, said the pact would boost power prices for consumers and businesses,” Reuters reported.
No reason to consider the jobs that might be developed in Massachusetts by green technology firms (for example, Cape Wind), or the fact that the beaches of Cape Cod itself, and the tourism jobs that depend on them, might be damaged by changing weather patterns. We need someone responsible in the State House.
It’s a great opportunity for our next Democratic governor to set the tone for energy and environmental policy in January, 2007.
They oppose Cape Wind. They pulled out of the regional grenhouse gas compact. They’ve let the state parks go to hell.
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I bet Unenrolled voters are strongly against this administration on each of these issues. The environment is just one example of how the issue playing field E X P A N D S in the general election. And expands in the Democrats’ favor.