DOE Chief Urges Energy Leaders to Accept Curbs on Greenhouse Gases

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March 9, 2010

DOE Chief Urges Energy Leaders to Accept Curbs on Greenhouse Gases

By MIKE SORAGHAN of Greenwire

HOUSTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu told participants at a major energy industry gathering here today that they need to accept a limit on carbon pollution and start finding ways to meet it.

"Let's get moving now," Chu told the conference sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "That will get the innovation machine moving. Time is running out, and the train is leaving the station."

Chu's remarks at CERAWeek fit the Obama administration's narrative -- that enacting rules to limit climate change won't cost jobs. Rather, the administration says, a lack of such rules is preventing the United States from joining a global "clean energy economy."

If the United States does not impose rules that spur that innovation, administration officials say, China and European countries will continue building a lead in manufacturing and developing renewable products such as solar panels and wind turbines.

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