00:00One of toxins, smog, greenhouse gas emissions, the kind of pollution that contributed to the climate emergency we now face today.
00:09Gina McCarthy, a former regulator in Massachusetts, was telling me on the way up how folks used to get a rag out and wipe the gunk off of their car's windshields in the morning just to be able to drive.
00:19Not very much unlike where I grew up, in a place called Claymont, Delaware, which has more oil refineries than Houston, Texas had in its region, just across the line in Pennsylvania.
00:31And all the prevailing winds were our way.
00:33I just lived up the road.
00:35I just — in an apartment complex when we moved to Delaware.
00:38And just up the road to a little school I went to, Holy Rosary Grade School.
00:42And because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us, and rather than us be able to walk.
00:52And guess what?
00:53The first frost, you know what was happening.
00:56You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.
01:01That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.
01:05And why can't for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation.
01:10But that's the past.
01:12And we're going to get — we're going to build a different future with one — one with clean energy, good-paying jobs.
01:21Just 15 years ago, America generated more than half its electricity from coal — coal-fired plants.
01:27Today, that's down to 20 percent because there's a big transition happening.
01:32Many of these fossil fuel plants are becoming sites for new clean energy construction.
01:37Others are switching to new clean technologies.
01:39Look at Brayton Point.
01:41Today, Brayton is one of the frontiers — on the frontier of clean energy in America.
01:47On this site, they'll manufacture four — 248 miles of high-tech, heavy-duty cables.
01:55Those specialized subsea cables are necessary to tie offshore wind farms to the existing grid.
02:01Manufacturing these cables will mean good-paying jobs for 250 workers, as many workers at the old plant — power plant had at its peak.
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