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Read their article, One New York Town’s Solar Rollout, featuring quotes from Susan Hughes-Smith.
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Susan Hughes-Smith with the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition says she’s in favor of the governor’s goals. However, she stresses that carbon-free transportation needs to consider the way people use public transit in upstate New York in order for those changes to work.
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“That’s attractive to Hughes-Smith and other climate coalition members, who see such projects as key to cleaning up New York’s power grid.”
Continue readingRochester People’s Climate Coalition kicks off Earth Month
Hughes-Smith hopes the event will inspire people to get active in the climate movement, and serve as a reminder that change starts at a local level.
“No one person or one group can do that alone. We need everybody in our community from the poorest person to the wealthiest person, regardless of race or class or socio-economic statuses, their ethnicity, we all really need to come together around shared human values.”
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