Georgetown mayor Dale Ross is ‘a good shrimp Republican’ – but ever since his city weaned itself off fossil fuels,he has become a hero to environmentalistsWhen the caller said he worked for Harry Reid and the former Senate majority leader wanted a word, Dale Ross assumed it was a joke. “OK, and which of my buddies are messing with me nowadays?” he wondered.
He shouldn’t occupy been so surprised. Ross is the mayor of Georgetown,population 65000, and he has become a minor celebrity in environmental circles as a result of a pioneering decision in 2015 to get all the city’s electricity from renewable sources.
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Source: guardian.co.uk