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Peter Welch: By making my office carbon-neutral earlier this year, my hope was to be able to take a small, but meaningful, step…

On the recordJune 22, 2007
By making my office carbon-neutral earlier this year, my hope was to be able to take a small, but meaningful, step towards addressing the impact of my own congressional activity on global warming. May I clarify my understanding that the committee report on the bill directs the Chief Administrative Officer to purchase carbon financial instruments to offset carbon produced by all House operations, and that these offsets will be fully transparent, verified, American, project-based offset credits? I yield.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Discussing efforts to address carbon emissions in congressional operations.

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