While Governor of Massachusetts, Romney was so concerned about climate change he ordered a Climate Protection Plan. What changed his mind?

This is a guest blog from Jane Bright of Healthlink, a local environmental health citizens group in Salem, Massachusetts.

Have you seen Romney’s 50 page “Climate Protection Plan”?

No? Well there’s a reason for that: He doesn’t have one and he is hiding from the issue on the campaign trail. Romney mocked climate change at the Republican National Convention in August and his campaign website reads:

“Mitt Romney will eliminate the regulations promulgated in pursuit of the Obama administration’s costly and ineffective anti-carbon agenda.”

So Romney’s only current “climate plan” is to attack the Obama EPA and its efforts to cut global warming pollution from power plants and other sources.

Just eight years ago, in 2004, Romney was so concerned about climate change that he implemented a comprehensive “Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan”. Continue reading →