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==Pittsburgh is the Center of America's Energy Solution==
* Pittsburgh will play a key role in meeting America's future energy needs.
: This was the conclusion of a gathering of local business, labor, and community leaders at Pittsburgh Energy Summit 2006, hosted in January by Congressman Tim Murphy and Congresswoman Melissa Hart, and featuring U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
* The Energy Policy Act passed (in 2005) by Congress can have a positive impact for Pittsburgh and allow it to produce the next generation of energy technology and scientists and engineers to develop it.
* The Energy Policy Act constitutes the greatest opportunity for Pittsburgh in decades.
More than 150 members of the Pittsburgh community participated in the summit, including: Consol Energy President and CEO J. Brett Harvey, Westinghouse Electric Company President and CEO Steve Tritch, Allegheny Conference on Community Development Chairman Jim Rohr, Builders’ Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh President Dion McMullen, and Nova Chemicals President and CEO Jeffrey Lipton.
“For 30 years, neither Congress, nor any administration had an energy policy. There were no policies to increase our oil production, or encourage the building of new oil refineries or nuclear facilities,” Murphy concluded. “This landmark energy act is the nation’s first comprehensive energy strategy in a generation. Its investment in clean coal technology, nuclear energy, hydrogen fuel cells, and other new technology will lower energy prices through increased supply, create jobs as a result of higher production, and give the nation energy independence.”
==Links==
* Energy
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