More than one-hundred green-energy company executives went to Washington, D.C., this week to urge members of Congress to pass a sweeping climate change bill, reports Mercury News. Clean-tech entrepreneurs and investors believe a bill that includes a cap on carbon emissions will help drive billions of dollars in clean-energy investments and ease the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, according to the article.
The investor coalition Ceres and the Clean Economy Network organized this week’s fly-in of executives from more than 100 companies, reports the New York Times. Executives met with the Senate’s “Gang of 16″ including Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy Director Carol Browner.
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