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National Clean Energy Summit: The R-word

Posted on August 20, 2008

By David RobertsThere were two remarkable aspects of the National Clean Energy Summit: Federal policy recommendations from the varied speakers -- scientists, business types, politicians -- were largely in sync. In fact, I got sick of hearing the same policies touted over and over again: renewable tax credits, cap-and-trade, electricity grid improvements, efficiency standards, renewable mandates, increased R&D. It seems that there is broad agreement on what needs to be done. Nobody so much as mentioned the rather striking fact that this policy consensus has yielded zero actual policies ...

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