But let's be honest, in doing that, we turned off one quarter of New York City's power and it was almost all clean energy. And overnight, without an alternative, we've had to burn more fuels, more fossil fuels have been burned. Greenhouse emissions are up in downstate New York because of [shutting down Indian Point]. that. There just wasn't a Plan B. I understand it, but there was not a Plan B. So more air pollution downstate. We cannot have trade offs like that. (20:13–20:19)
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