The Senate should take heed and pass a global warming bill at least as strong as the House's this year. Passage of the bills working their way through Congress that cover renewable energy and "cap and trade" is of special importance to Massachusetts, which is home to cutting-edge scientists and clean-energy research firms - some of which are racing with foreign competitors to create products that could be sold for decades around the world.
Chu delivered
his message about the competitive threat of China at a green-jobs
conference in Las Vegas in August '09 and at The Boston Globe earlier this
month.
While China balks at accepting hard limits on its greenhouse gas emissions, it acknowledges climate change and intends to be a leader in developing clean-energy technologies, Chu said. "The US is still ahead of China,'' said Chu, who recently returned from China. "If we move in this direction, we can be the leader and seize the opportunity.''
At the same Las Vegas conference, former vice president Al Gore lamented the fact that many proponents of renewable energy are reluctant to speak openly about the environmental cost of inaction.
SOURCE: Boston.com
