Event Summary

Join the New America Foundation at the kick off event for New America's Energy Advisory Council, with a lively panel discussion about the individual and combined effects of our new energy policies in the near term. Register online.

Event Description

For the first time in more than a generation, President Obama is rewriting America's energy policy through a wide-ranging hodgepodge of initiatives including: stimulus funds, the rescue of the auto industry, EPA regulations, FERC initiatives, domestic climate change legislation, international agreements like the Copenhagen round, biofuel and plug-in hybrid mandates, and many smaller tax incentives and subsidies. The piecemeal nature of these changes makes them seem smaller than they are, and makes their impact--both positive and negative-- difficult to forecast in today's volatile energy markets.

Will there be an energy supply gap? Are current policies enough to stimulate the technological and financial innovation that we'll need? Who will the winners and losers be? Will the new polarity of winners and losers itself change the course of how the US tackles energy and climate issues? Does the public have more tolerance for change than politicians realize, and are we under-reaching.

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Speakers

Steve Coll
President
New America Foundation

Panel Discussion- 9:30 a.m.
The Honorable Branko Terzic
Regulatory Policy Leader
Energy & Resources, Deloitte Services LP

Douglas Koplow
Founder
Earth Track

Nigel Purvis
President
Climate Advisers

Moderator
Lisa Margonelli
Senior Research Fellow
California Program and Director, Energy Policy Initiative
New America Foundation

Introduction of Keynote- 10:40 a.m.
Jeffrey Leonard
Co-Chair, Energy Advisory Council
New America Foundation
CEO, Global Environment Fund

Keynote Address- 10:45 a.m.
Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC)
Author, HR 2380 the "Raise Wages, Cut Carbon" Act

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