But, there are many smaller communities across the country that have advantageous locations or something unique about them (i.e. major university located there, name medical complex located there, significant clean industry in the city, highly educated population base without being a large urban complex) that offer attractive locations for women to look at when starting a business.
Spurring the development of clean energy industry clusters by funding new regional cluster initiatives and clean energy research consortia.
To regain leadership in the global clean technology industry, the United States must enact a comprehensive clean energy competitiveness strategy that prioritizes major public investments in clean energy innovation, manufacturing, market development, education, and infrastructure.
Because of the Recovery Act, we have finally jumpstarted the clean energy industry in America, and made possible 200, 000 jobs in the clean energy and construction sectors.
Only then would long-term subsidies not be needed for the clean energy industry to simply survive.
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The investments are helping to build a new clean energy industry here in America.
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Third, the clean technology industry is likely to be a multi trillion dollar industry on the global level.
We helped to jumpstart a clean energy industry in places where there were none, as Governor Granholm can attest in Michigan.
It is clear that the current budgetary environment in the United States presents challenges to the viability of the fast-growing clean energy industry.
On Thursday, I visited a new, high-tech factory in Michigan where workers are helping America lead the way in a growing clean energy industry.
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Such a federal strategy will require major federal investments, but of a different kind than the subsidies that have driven the clean tech industry in years past.
And another was to make some long-term investments in industries that would help the economy grow in the future, and that includes in the clean energy industry.
As we argued previously, while the stimulus was hastily constructed and not particularly well optimized, the program ultimately helped forestall the collapse of the domestic clean energy industry.
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The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry.
Making matters worse, economic collapse cast doubt on the prospect that existing levels of funding for clean energy would even be maintained, and that the nascent clean energy industry could survive.
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Number one is the whole clean energy industry -- and Toledo actually is becoming a leader in this, creating good jobs, in areas like solar -- building solar panels, wind turbines, advanced battery manufacturing.
For the United States to build a thriving domestic clean tech industry it will have to stay one step ahead of the competition, quickly developing and commercializing the next generation of clean energy technologies to make them cheaper and more reliable.
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Meanwhile, our economic competitors are not making the same mistakes we are, and are continuing to publicly invest in their domestic energy innovation systems in a bid to capture the increasing economic rewards inherent to the burgeoning clean energy industry.
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That's why my administration is taking steps to support a thriving clean energy industry across this country -- an industry that's making solar panels, and building wind turbines, producing cutting-edge batteries for fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and helping consumers get more control over their energy bills.
"The Critical Materials Institute will bring together the best and brightest research minds from universities, national laboratories and the private sector to find innovative technology solutions that will help us avoid a supply shortage that would threaten our clean energy industry as well as our security interests, " he said in a statement.
Soon after the first of the new reactors becomes operational, in 2017 at the earliest, the new-build industry will begin to add to the size of the clean-up industry.
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.
EPDs can even be used to help a company or industry clean up its supply chain.
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He writes about energy and heads a project exploring the relationship among countries in the globalizing clean-energy industry.
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Many suspect that the opportunities currently being exploited by the clean-up industry in Japan are merely the tip of an iceberg.
Between 2001 and 2010 investment in the American clean-tech industry increased tenfold.
Earlier this month, China's quality inspection agency shut down nearly half of the country's 1, 176 dairies as part of a campaign to clean up the industry.
Ironically, these various controversies and challenges testify to the enormous growth and new investment activity that has brought the so-called "clean tech" industry increasingly into mainstream consumer markets in the past two years.
Congress recently passed the 2, 319-page Dodd-Frank Act to clean up the financial industry and save us from another blowup.
Some believe that retrofitting ships with equipment like "scrubbers" that remove harmful emissions from vessels could help the industry to clean up its act.
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