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Lets get what you have been doing. >> you have reduced carbon and promoting new and natural gas and strengthen the shellfish industry, oil transportation safety and you got some other ideas for the future reducing emissions and carbon neutral and clean activities. this is ambitious stuff you got here. how do you take what you are doing in washington and apply it nationally? >> well, we recognize in my state and i believe nationally that we are the first generation to feel the sting of climate ch...

Affected the environment so it may be generations before this is a viable farm again. >> lets take a look at another picture. lets move forward. this shows us some of the seascaping, the effect on the coastline, jeff. as we experienced before, there was a huge effect on the ecosystems off the coast there and all the islands in the arc pell ago. how long will this take? as we scroll, it got moved in. what will happen to all of this? >> its such a shocking reminder of how truly vulnerable we are. ...

Country. and the shellfish industry is in a real dire straits right now. some of the oyster fishing areas have been closed off. oysters figured will have the hardest time and dont have the mobility that shrimp and other shellfish do, crab, to get out of the way of the oil slick. lot of the fishermen, obviously, concerned about their future. some of them have been offering their assistance to help bp in the cleanup or containment of this oil. some have been taken up on that. but their future righ...