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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts) Thu Apr 12, 2012, 10:33 AM Apr 2012

Good News! US -- biggest investor in clean energy in 2011

The US has regained top spot from China as the biggest investor in clean energy in 2011, according to global rankings.

The table, published in a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, showed that US invested more than $48bn (£30bn) in the sector, up from $34bn in 2010.

China slipped to second place, the authors reported, with investment only increasing by $0.5bn to $45.5bn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17662973

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Good News! US -- biggest investor in clean energy in 2011 (Original Post) JDPriestly Apr 2012 OP

That is good news. toddwv Apr 2012 #1

Right. But the Obama adminsitration is doing well on this issue, at least based on this report from JDPriestly Apr 2012 #2

toddwv

(2,830 posts)

1. That is good news.

Reply to JDPriestly (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 11:10 AM

Apr 2012

Just think, we would've likely been at the top starting in 2001 if Gore would have won.

Instead we got 8 years of Texan Oilmen controlling the US along with their rubber-stamp Republican Congress.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

2. Right. But the Obama adminsitration is doing well on this issue, at least based on this report from