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Peter Welch: “When I came to Congress, which is 07, there was a lot of…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Senator Welch Presents to Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO and Policy Forum

Published | Video Starts at 01:47

Give a little backdrop of where we came from and where we're at and why, what you're doing. ESI and each of you. Connor, it was interesting just listening to all the possibilities there is so important. When I came to Congress, which is 07, there was a lot of climate change denial. Right. I found that I had arrived from Vermont, which is totally in a bipartisan basis into doing everything we can for the environment and where we believed in climate change. (01:47–01:55)

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Asserts that there was significant climate change denial in Congress in 2007.

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