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SC Businesses for Clean Energy is expressing disappointment regarding the Senate’s failure to take action on comprehensive energy and climate legislation. The Senate’s failure to act – and to fail to consider even a stripped-down bill-- continues to have a negative impact on American businesses, inhibiting their ability to innovate and create jobs. “We encourage Senators to find a way forward that puts jobs and American businesses ahead of partisanship and to work across state and party lines to pass comprehensive energy and climate legislation that puts a price on carbon,” says Clare Morris, Director of SC Businesses for Clean Energy. “Every day, the United States falls $260 million further behind the rest of the world in clean energy investments. We are only investing about half of what China is in clean energy,” said Morris. “The U.S. Senate has the opportunity to move forward with energy and climate legislation that puts a price on carbon, and that helps American businesses create jobs and compete with the rest of the world.” SC business leaders do appreciate last summer’s leadership on the House side by Congressmen Clyburn and Spratt. And they don’t see the closing curtain on the Senate’s summer session as the last act. Over the August recess, SC Businesses for Clean Energy and business leaders will continue to make the case to Senators that Congress must finish what it has started. The House of Representatives passed climate and energy legislation more than a year ago, and it is the Senate’s turn to do its part. As part of this effort, SC Businesses for Clean Energy is highlighting the costs of the U.S. Senate’s failure to act on comprehensive clean energy legislation by using a ticker that counts, in real time, the amount by which America is falling behind other countries in clean energy investment. The ticker started counting on July 22, 2010, when the Senate made it clear that it would not act on climate legislation this summer. The ticker also points to the jobs that would be created by clean energy and climate legislation—jobs that are instead going unrealized. The investment ticker shows – in both dollars and jobs-- the importance of putting comprehensive clean energy legislation back on the agenda this year.
To view and download the ticker, click here .
(Images provided by SC Businesses for Clean Energy.)
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