Our President was a guy named George Herbert Walker Bush, and as I recall, he proposed harnessing market forces to try to address the problems that we had with acid rain destroying forests and water and lakes and so forth in New England.
Carper recalls Bush's market-based approach to environmental issues.
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I think the greatest way that the Commission can have an impact on that is probably through our rate-making authority.
Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.
We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.
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