Background

Mr. Sargent oversees policy and strategy development for state PIRG energy and climate campaigns throughout the U.S. He has been involved as a strategist in numerous successful campaigns including the Massachusetts, California, New Mexico, and New Jersey Renewable Portfolio Standards; the adoption of the California Automobile Emission Standards (LEV/ZEV) programs in the Northeast; and in shaping state and regional climate change action plans.  He was a leader in the successful effort in Massachusetts to secure the first-in-the-nation policy to regulate carbon dioxide power plants, and currently serves as an advisor to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, working to shape a cap on global warming emissions from power plants in the Northeast.

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