Clean Power: Building a New Clean Energy Economy
Date: April 13, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 12:30pm
Location:Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, Building E51
Congress will soon be taking up legislation proposed by Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee and Select Committee on Global Warming. The draft legislation, entitled The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), charts a new course toward a clean energy economy that creates jobs, helps end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and combats global warming. Principals from the Congress and from the Administration will discuss the approach and seek community views.
Session One - Energy and Global Warming: The Scientific and Political Challenges
Congressman Edward J. Markey
7th Congressional District of Massachusetts; Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (Chair); Energy and Commerce Chair of Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment)
Dr. John P. Holdren
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
Dr. Susan Hockfield
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session Two - Green Energy / Green Jobs
Dr. Daniel Yergin
Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (CERA)
Dr. Ernest Moniz
MIT Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems; Director of MIT Energy Initiative
Keynote Address: President Obama’s Energy Independence and Global Warming Agenda
The Honorable Carol Browner
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama Administration
