U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Governor Jerry Brown
signed the agreement today at a solar farm near Sacramento.
Salazar and Brown took turns slapping down critics and promising big things for renewable energy:
Salazar: "Today is a reaffirmation that we are on the right track and that we are making believers out of the skeptics who never thought that we could capture the power of the sun in the way that we are capturing it today."
Brown: "It's not easy.
There are gonna be screw-ups. There are gonna be
bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be
deaths. But we're gonna keep going - and nothing's gonna stop
me. We're gonna make this state as great as we believe it to
be. Thank you!" (applause
The partnership expedites state and federal environmental reviews of proposed solar, wind and other renewable energy projects. The new agreement expands the partnership to include the building of transmission lines.
