Earlier, I praised Germany for creating a consistent regulatory environment for sustaianble business practices and thereby being a Worldwide leader in Renewable Energy and creating 50,000 jobs in thier country. Not standing idly by while China creates a huge export market unchallenged by the West.
Friday, Carol Bowner, Obama's assistant on energy and climate, said that business needs clear guidelines to follow in creating clean energy alternatives. The Obama administration is proposing a "comprehensive" energy and climate bill that will provide the economic foundation to spur investment in clean-energy technologies. U.S. businesses will invest more in clean-energy technologies once Congress passes a law with incentives for renewable energy and efficiency, as well as, a system that limits heat-trapping greenhouse gases... to send a signal to the marketplace that we are going to be dealing with these (greenhouse gas) emissions in a different way," she said.
A number of large companies and green technology start-ups continue to urge lawmakers to set up regulations that put a price on carbon emissions, with many business people preferring a cap-and-trade system. With a cap-and-trade, large polluters such as utilities can buy and sell permits to emit carbon to stay under a government-set cap, a system already used to reduce other air pollutants.
The Obama administration prefers to act with one voice, "Every time we've implemented environmental clean-air regulations, we've gotten solutions more quickly and at dramatically less cost than anticipated... a "piecemeal" approach to regulations will not create the certainty that businesses need to make investments inclean-energy technologies." End inter-agency squabbling and turf wars.
Source: Browner was interviewed on Friday at the Atlantic's First Draft of History conference at the Newseum in Washington,
D.C.
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