Yet while the White House report highlights the considerable clean energy momentum established by the Recovery Act, it also inadvertently raises the specter of an impending clean tech funding cliff which risks sending U.S. clean energy industries into deep freeze as stimulus funds begin to expire over the coming months.
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If Washington continues to ignore this growing economic imperative, the U.S. will remain behind in clean energy investment and will wind up importing the vast majority of the clean energy products needed to satisfy U.S. markets.
The graphic above shows how much being published in a particular country increased and decreased the odds of a paper being published (1 would mean no change.) The U.S. and China published similar numbers of scientific papers on energy and clean technology, but the U.S. papers were far more likely to be referenced by other researchers.
And as more clean diesels enter the U.S. market, consumers are showing an increased interest in those, as well.
In fact, the unveiling of the new Cruze could provide an immediate jolt forward for clean diesel in the U.S. market overall.
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We need clean coal in the U.S., and melding the technology with oil recovery is a smart way to make it economic.
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The trust forecasts that investment in clean technology in the U.K. will top 2 billion pounds a year by 2015, accounting for 4% of investment in clean technologies worldwide.
Public support for clean tech in the U.S. dropped nearly 50 percent from 2011 to 2012, and will likely plunge 75 percent between 2009 and 2014 unless Congress acts, according to analysts at WRI, the Breakthrough Institute, and the Brookings Institution.
Because of higher costs and technical barriers to widespread clean energy adoption, efforts to move the U.S. energy system away from fossil fuels towards clean energy alternatives inevitably comes with a significant price tag.
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Many are in need of food, shelter, health care and clean water, said the U.N.
So, while others are investing heavily to build the 21st century clean energy economy, the U.S. is still busy trying to sustain the 19th and 20th century fossil fuel economy.
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Fortunately, the America COMPETES reauthorization offers a key opportunity for Congress to strengthen U.S. clean energy competitiveness.
Instead, U.S. clean energy policy has historically been characterized by a disjointed collection of loosely associated, often inconsistent incentives.
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Accelerating U.S. clean technology innovation, manufacturing, and market creation has become not just an environmental necessity but an economic imperative.
As my colleague Clifton Yin and I have written recently, U.S. clean energy innovation policy is at an inflection point.
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The prospects for U.S. clean technology exports are vast.
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In other words, for every solar panel or smart meter the U.S. exports, expect there to be twice as many exports in the form of architectural design of green buildings, energy audits and licensing of U.S. clean technologies.
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The jury also convicted the plant's environmental control manager, Mark Kamholz, on 15 counts, most of them for violating clean air laws, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Tomorrow the International Energy Agency will announce that Europe has shifted from clean natural gas to dirtier coal as U.S. coal, displaced at home by shale gas, floods the European energy market.
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He also proposed the creation of an international fund to finance research into clean-energy technology, announcing that U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would coordinate the effort and would be in touch with other governments soon about moving forward.
Obama, who recently turned his attention to the need for more clean-energy funding, has also asked U.N.
So what better time for Ocean Power Technologies, a company that aims to capture hydropower as a source of clean, renewable energy, to makes its U.S. stock market debut?
The greater Salt Lake region had up to 130 micrograms of soot per cubic meter on Wednesday, or more than three times the federal clean-air limit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
President Barack Obama often points to the advances being made in China in touting his own clean-energy ambitions, arguing that the U.S. must move swiftly if it wants to keep abreast of its primary Asian competitor.
There are many challenges to the development of a robust clean energy technology industry in United States, particularly as other nations move aggressively to compete for global clean energy markets and surge ahead of the U.S. on key metrics.
Aho's Salt Lake City software firm, ClearPlay , is one of several small companies (with names like Clean Flicks and Play It Clean Video) fighting off a suit in U.S. District Court in Denver, brought by 16 famed Hollywood directors and eight large studios, for selling cleaned-up versions of popular videos to squeamish parents.
The message from clean energy investors like Deutsche Bank and the model provided by our global competitors are both quite clear: what the U.S. needs is not cap and trade but a comprehensive clean economy strategy.
But Cruze is slated to become by far the highest-volume U.S. nameplate outfitted with clean diesel.
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The administration reiterated its support of the clean burning fuel yesterday, just one week after U.S. Reps.
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