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Industry Leaders Consider Why America has Fallen Behind at the National Climate Summit

Recent announcements that China would be dramatically curbing carbon emissions and investing heavily in nuclear and renewable energy highlighted a central theme of the Council on Competitiveness' National Energy Summit: that the United States had fallen... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Thu, Sep 24 2009

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