C2 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A16-17 EditoriAls: A narrow energy bill; modernizing New York elections; glimmerings of a Congo peace.
China and other economic competitors will eat our lunch in the global arena if we make deep cuts in areas that help power our economy -- scientific research, innovation, education, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and modernizing our core infrastructure.
America has the technological know-how and environmentally sound 21st-century technologies needed to meet the principal energy challenges we face: promoting energy conservation, repairing and modernizing our energy infrastructure and increasing our energy supplies in ways that protect and improve the environment.
Eötvös became minister of education again after 1867 and devoted his energies to modernizing the educational system.
He'll generate green jobs by investing in retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, in modernizing the electric grid, in pushing renewable energy, mass transit, and retooling the auto industry.
Its 105 separate provisions include several potentially useful proposals aimed at improving energy efficiency and modernizing the country's power grid and pipelines.
With innovations from Web-camera monitoring of remote fields to the use of drill bits that can turn corners underground, Russia is gradually modernizing its energy machine.
A total of €4.5 billion was invested in modernizing the energy sector and created around 50,000 jobs.
"Many of the ideas you offer, from improving light rail transit to modernizing our energy grid to creating a new service corps, have been embraced by my administration," said President Obama in a video released along with the briefing book.
"We feel really strongly about checking the gridlock at the door, working together on, in particular modernizing our energy policy," said Wyden, who represents Oregon and has a long history of working with Republicans on thorny issues including taxation and health care.
