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  • President Obama Awards $2.3 Billion for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs
    { Friday, January 8th }

    WASHINGTON- Today at the White House, President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. One hundred eighty three projects in 43 states will create tens of thousands of high quality clean energy jobs and the domestic manufacturing of advanced clean energy technologies including solar, wind and efficiency and energy management technologies.

  • What the Copenhagen Talks Mean for Your Business
    { Thursday, January 14th }

    “Copenhagen is important because it represents a business opportunity, said European commission president José Manuel Barroso. “By moving towards a more sustainable economy, we will unleash a surge of innovation and investment in clean technologies and products. New sectors will provide ‘green collar’ jobs and become sources of sustainable growth for the future,” he continued. While Barroso gives a rosy view of what the Copenhagen Accord means for business, many in the US are uncertain about business prospects following the talks.

  • Why We Need Innovation, Not Insulation
    { Wednesday, January 20th }

    People often present two timeframes that we should have as goals for CO2 reduction -- 30% (off of some baseline) by 2025 and 80% by 2050. I believe the key one to achieve is 80% by 2050. But we tend to focus on the first one since it is much more concrete. We don't distinguish properly between things that put you on a path to making the 80% goal by 2050 and things that don't really help.

  • Next100 - A Dialogue on the Next Century of Energy
    { Friday, January 22nd }

    When is the last time Corporate America, Big Labor and the environmental movement agreed on anything? Try today. An ad running in today's Wall Street Journal, and slated to run on the Politico web site as well, brings together leaders from all three groups, along with representatives from the faith-based community, in unprecedented support of "bi-partisan, national energy and climate legislation that increases our security and limits emissions, as it preserves and creates jobs."

  • Business, Environmental Coalition Among Players Pushing for Climate Change Bill
    { Tuesday, January 26th }

    We're starting a series of conversations here on the Rundown about where climate change legislation stands in Congress. Among the players: A large consortium of American corporations and environmental groups, who are pushing Congress to adapt new laws to regulate carbon emissions and to encourage new energy policies.

  • ABCE Co-Sponsors Clean Energy Week
    { Thursday, January 28th }


    ABCE joins several organizations nationwide for Clean Energy Week- a week of action in Washington, DC to encourage Congress and the Administration to pass clean energy and climate legislation.

  • The Race is on to Develop Green, Clean Technology by Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune
    { Sunday, January 31st }

    It is shaping up to be the Great Game of the 21st century. To top officials and business executives here at the World Economic Forum, Topic A this year was the race to develop greener, cleaner technology, which is emerging as one of the critical factors in reshaping the world economy as emerging powers snap at the heels of battered Western economies.

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