Carol Browner: Enviro Regs Create Market Opportunity

On December 1, the Center for American Progress Action Fund hosted former EPA administrator Carol Browner, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, and Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) for a lively discussion on the future of energy and environmental policy. In the question-and-answer period, Browner explained her view that government can spur economic growth by raising standards.

BROWNER: As a former regulator -- and I can cite you any number of stories -- when the government steps up and says there's a requirement, that we're going to have to take sulfur out of diesel fuel, you're going to have to get rid of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) by a date certain, what the government is doing is creating a market opportunity.

American innovation and American ingenuity time and time again has risen to that challenge, and inevitably more quickly and at less cost than was anticipated.

And so, while the governor has been talking very importantly about how we need to make investments, those investments, when they are partnered with a government requirement -- a regulation that we're going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, that we're going to reduce this climate pollutant -- the upside is phenomenal, more than we can possibly imagine in this room.

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[ch473]

888American is right, you can tell because he SPEAKS IN CAPS and can't even spell Socialist right lol. And you know that anyone who mentions the "One World Government" is totally sane.

Fear and hate-mongering right-wing ignoramuses are "Un-American", not good, smart people like Carol Browner.

[robolojo]

My God, if this woman is wrong and her plan goes through there will be no turning back to stop this freight train. She makes it sound like opportunities abound with her suggested changes. Reality is chaos and corruption while the plan is being implemented. I think there will be 20 or more years of hardship to working class people before the plan goes abandoned for lack of effectiveness. This woman is communist, there will be no market opportunity for people only higher government taxation.

[jeffmagic32]

People should have to take basic economics in high school.

[888American]

Carol Browner ran EPA for years...and using her eco terrorists..she ran our industry out of America...thus..joblessness..

This is a very dangerous woman...She is a member of Socialst International and affiliate of the United Nations....those who seek power over the world...thru their One World Government..

Global warming is a HOAX and is being used as a tool to SCARE YOU into giving away your freedoms..

Dont listen to these SCAM ARTISTS..BROWNER...AL GORE..ETC..ALL bunch of LIARS..

[Sneedster1]

I Absoleutly Love Carol Browner She Is Very Smart And Sexy AS HELL Is There A Way To Get Carol Browners Autograph? Love The Sneedster.

[HateMccain]

I absolutely hate Carol Browner. She is the most dangerous and by far, the most corrupt member of the Obama administration. Watch her very carefully, because she will try to unilaterally enact 'Cap and Tax' if it gets defeated in the Congress.

[jewet51]

Bring that god dam socialist scum ta TEXAS well feed the slimy UNAMERICAN bitch ta the hogs and if they won't eat her the buzzards will.

[slappy6817]

She just got married to former Congressman Tom Downey of New York.

[CircusMaximus09]

The appointment should be very interesting. Inspite of designating the LA basin as a non-attainment area in 1993 having to be in attainment by 2010, the USEPA lifted all the command and control mandates...