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How does your climate plan create opportunity for people whose economies have relied on fossil fuels like oil towns in texas and coal towns in west virginia? what do you say to people who think green energy threatens their way of life and financial future and how will you get them on board with your plan? >> great question. i come from an oil and gas-rich state. i come from a wind and sun-rich state. we lead the country in the amount of wind generation that we produce. we will soon lead the country when it comes to solar energy generation in our state. we've invested in the transit n transmiss...

They're doing their own assessment of how they're going to deal with that. montana is a coal state. governor jay inslee from washington, also another popular democratic governor, he is running this year, he is running on a climate change form will platform. he has oopsaid the two of you fundamentally disagree on what the science demands in terms of climate. how do you compete for a democratic elector and for a country that really wants climate to be tackled head-on. >> as i do. we're outdoors. i had any second worst fire season two years ago, 1.3 million acres burned. come to glacier park soon...

>> as i do. we're outdoors. people. i had any second worst fire season two years ago, 1.3 million acres burned. come to glacier park soon because the glaciers will be gone. i've doubled our wind generation just in my six years, quadrupled our solar, and i know we need to do things. scientist says ultimately we've got to get carbon neutral by 2050. i think we can do it before that. i think we can do it by 2040. and there are steps we can take. we have to be getting rid of a billion tons of co2 globally a year. we need to rejoin paris. with we are the -- we emit about five billion tons a year. c...

The first phase was about generation, harnessing the awesome power of the sun and wind. there's been lots of progress on that front as cheap chinese solar panels flooded markets, increased more than 25,000%. wind generation grew by more than 2,500%. that's good news in terms of limiting depend again ens on fossil fuels but now we need storage. solar and wind are so-called intermet ent sources. that means they are here one minute and gone the next. as they scale up, they start causing problems. take california which leads the nation in solar capacity. in the middle of the day when the sun is sh...

State of texas history, will be the secretary of energy. of course, you think, well, you know, that makes sense because texas is a big energy producer. you know, the department of energy is busy. they're involved not only in energy research but managing our nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons and environmental cleanup. it does sound like some of the green groups not crazy about him, said he's unfit to run the department. however, when he was governor of texas, he led the country, texas did, in wind generation and other renewable sources of power. so suddenly it's like, wait a minute, he's no...