Congressman Ed Markey: “There’s a giant Green Wave sweeping Washington D.C.”

Jack Hidary at HuffingtonPost grabbed an excellent video interview with Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the point person in the House, along with Henry Waxman for energy and climate policy.

“I think the course of history is so dramatically different now,” Markey said, calling for an ambitious agenda on climate and energy. “I don’t think we should be anything less than really ambitious on the high goals we set,” Markey said, speaking about a renewable electricity standard the House and Senate are set to debate.

Here’s Hidary’s introduction to the video…

We interviewed Congressman Markey at Powershift09 which took place in DC with over 12,000 students from across the US advocating for cleaner energy and climate change action.

Markey gave a rousing speech to the students — probably one of the most dynamic speeches a congressman has given – and got them on their feet holding up their cell phones as symbols of all the new solar panels and wind turbines that will come in the next few years [Editor's note: you can watch that speech here].

Here is the interview:

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Jesse Jenkins is an energy and climate policy analyst, advocate, and blogger. Jesse is the Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute in Oakland, California, where he works to develop and advance new energy solutions to power America's future, secure our energy freedom, and halt global warming. He joined Breakthrough in June 2008 and previously directed the Breakthrough Generation fellowship program for young clean energy leaders. Jesse worked previously as a Research and Policy Associate at the Renewable Northwest Project in Portland, OR, helping to advance the development of the Pacific Northwest's abundant renewable energy potential. A prolific author and blogger on clean energy issues, Jesse is the founder and chief editor of WattHead - Energy News and Commentary, a featured writer and advisory board member at the Energy Collective, and a frequent contributor at Forbes.com, Huffington Post, and Grist.org.

1 Response to “Congressman Ed Markey: “There’s a giant Green Wave sweeping Washington D.C.””

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1 b4therest Mar 14th, 2009 at 5:48 am

You are a disgrace for America to be in charge of energy by extending day light savings time by one month in the spring.Every study shows that this consumes more energy than it saves.So why aren’t you doing something to change this stupid bill you sponsored?

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