Now if you take nuclear off the table, the only way to do that is with more fossil fuels. That's not going to work for us here in New York. We're not going backwards, we're going forward. In the last couple years we've shut down more than 2 gigawatts of fossil fuel capacity. That's why it makes New York electric grid one of the cleanest in the country per capita. But you don't get cleaner air or lower asthma rates for kids by burning fossil fuels. (14:13–14:19)
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