On June 29th Clean Water Action and 40 other Massachusetts environmental organizations hosted the 2010 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Forum on Energy and the
Environment at the historic Old South Meeting House in Boston.

Participating candidates were Governor Deval Patrick, Green/Rainbow Coalition candidate Jill Stein, Independent candidate Tim Cahill and House Minority Leader Brad Jones, who served as a surrogate for Republican candidate Charles Baker (after Baker refused to attend the event).

The candidates each discussed their views, and showed their significant differences in opinion, on a wide variety of environmental issues, from toxic chemicals to global warming to development.  Questions were asked of each candidate by panelists Beth Daley of the Boston Globe and Steve Curwood, host of Public Radio’s Living on Earth as well as audience members.

Watch video footage of the forum here.

The event was Sponsored by:  Appalachian Mountain Club, Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Berkshire Environmental Action Team, Charles River Conservancy, Charles River Watershed Association, Clean Water Action, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Business Council, Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM), Friends of the Blue Hills, Greater Worcester Land Trust, Green Decade/Cambridge, Groundwork Lawrence, Groundwork Somerville, Home Energy Efficiency Team, Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions, Massachusetts Audubon, Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance, Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light, Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition, Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, Massachusetts Rivers Alliance, Neponset River Watershed Association, North & South Rivers Watershed Association, Old South Meeting House, Organization for the Assabet River, Safer Waters in Massachusetts, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Taunton River Watershed Alliance, The Trustees of Reservations, Walk Boston; and ELM Corporate Council members: Aggregate Industries, Grossman Marketing, Legal Sea Foods, Millipore, The Saunders Hotel Group, and Shawmut Design & Construction.