Any Serious Climate Change Policy Here?

Not with the makeup of Congress now, they won't even talk about any in the House, will be way to busy investigating stuff they already know won't go anywhere as well as obstructing any movement forward for the Country! Senate, who knows, them numbers changed.

GE won't wait for Congress

19 Jan 2011 - The US is considered unlikely to contemplate any serious climate change policy for at least a couple of years, courtesy of the Republican-dominated Congress and the refusal by virtually all of its newly elected members to accept that increased emissions might be having an impact on the earth’s temperature.

Despite this, most major US companies are still betting on a major shift towards low-carbon energy sources, energy efficient technologies such as smart grids and smart meters, and electric vehicles.

We saw this with the purchases reported earlier this week by Duke Energy of its rival Progress Energy, DuPont of a Danish company called Danisco, and we might have also thrown in GE’s purchase of power conversion technology group Lineage Power for $US520 million – an investment that will enable it to boost investments into cleantech-related technologies such as batteries, cooling, datacentres, and electric vehicles. Last week GE also bought UK smart metering firm Remote Energy Monitoring. The question is not so much if there is a transition to low-carbon technologies, but how quickly it will occur. {continued}