Attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way. And theres a particular moment in time now that is very important because the Building Code gets updated on a threeyear cycle. And we are and that starts now in 2019, the new cycle. So we wanted to weigh in to be in alignment with that statewide cycle. And im going to let cyndy take
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