August 18-19th 2008
Related Links: National Clean Energy Summit Agenda, Video Highlights, Policy Recommendations
At the first National Clean Energy Summit in August 2008, President Bill Clinton, Governors and Senators, Democrats and Republicans, titans of big business and labor leaders, scientists and innovators of cutting edge technology came together to accelerate the development and deployment of renewable energy, energy-efficiency technologies, and robust clean energy markets in the West, the nation, and the world.
Co-hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the first summit provided an opportunity to map out a national policy agenda that grows our economy, provides good jobs, improves our individual health, protects our national security, and cleans our polluted air.
Nevada is at the epicenter in the debate of how America should generate and use energy in the future. The Silver State has abundant clean energy resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and efficiency technologies that could be developed to meet its future energy needs. The question is whether Nevadans—and all Americans—will shift to a clean energy economy that creates less expensive and more efficient energy, cleaner air, clean energy markets, and the creation of good new jobs that strengthen and grow the economy in Nevada, the nation, and the world.
We owe it to our children and grandchildren to protect the air they breathe and our nation’s great outdoors. Nevada has the opportunity to do that and lead the nation in a clean energy revolution by developing clean, renewable energy and efficiency technologies that will meet the state’s current and future energy demands.
Full List of Participants:
• Sen. Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader
• John Podesta, Center for American Progress Action Fund
• William Jefferson Clinton
• Dr. David Ashley, President, UNLV
• Rose McKinney James, Energy Foundation
• T. Boone Pickens, Financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management
• Moderator: Randolph Townsend, Nevada State Senator
• Gov. Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona
• Jim Murren, President and COO, MGM Mirage
• Jon Creyts, Principal, McKinsey & Company
• Michael Yackira, President & CEO, Sierra Pacific Resources
• Rhone Resch, Executive Director of Solar Energy Industry Association
• Steve Colwell, Executive Director, Sea Change Foundation
• Rep. Hilda Solis, U.S. Representative, 32nd District of California
• Dina Titus, Nevada State Senator
• Edward Mazria, Founder of Architecture 2030
• Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google, Inc.
• Robert E. Rubin, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Citigroup Inc.
• Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Nevada State AFL-CIO
• Van Jones, Center for American Progress Action Fund Senior Fellow and Founder and President, Green for All
• Somer Hollingsworth, President and CEO, Nevada Development Authority
• Ian Rogoff, Chairman and Trustee, Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization
• Fred Redmond, Vice President, United Steelworkers
• Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah
• Gov. Bill Ritter, State of Colorado
• Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Dr. Steven Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Dr. David Overskei, President, Decision Factors
• Jim Thomas, Senior Vice President, Manager of Energy Services, Bank of America
• Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City of New York
Related Links: National Clean Energy Summit Agenda, Video Highlights, Policy Recommendations
