White house conference on environmental technologyDIANE Publishing, 2000 - 204 من الصفحات V.P. Al Gore and senior Clinton Admin. officials met with more than 1,300 industry, environmental, and government leaders from around the U.S. on Dec. 11-13, 1994, to discuss ways to promote economic growth and job creation while preserving the environment. The goal of the conference was to lay the groundwork for developing a national strategy for deploying a new generation of advanced environmental technologies -- technologies with potential to improve U.S. economic competitiveness and position U.S. industry for world leadership in international markets, while at the same time providing for more effective and sustainable environmental protection. |
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academia achieve Administration American approach Assistant barriers billion breakout session building capital Carol Browner CH2M Hill Co-Chair commercialization competitive conference cost countries create Dan Goldin demonstration and verification discussion economic efforts engineering environment environmental education environmental industry environmental monitoring Environmental Protection Agency environmental technology example facilitate federal agencies federal government financing flexibility focus focused Fred Hansen funding global goals going Hazel O'Leary impact important incentives increase industrial ecology infrastructure initiative innovative technologies integrated investment involved Jack Gibbons John Gibbons long-term manufacturing marketplace National opportunities participants partners partnerships percent pollution prevention private sector problems programs promote public-private partnerships Ralph Peterson Rapporteur regulations regulatory risk role roundtable small businesses stakeholders standards sustainable development sustainable future sustainable transportation technology development Tom Malone trade transportation U.S. companies U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. industry USAID Vice President Gore
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الصفحة 7 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
الصفحة 12 - Thus it is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
الصفحة 10 - I relating to studies and reports, there are authorized to be appropriated — (A) to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of...
الصفحة 14 - International agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), have gradually lowered trade barriers, such as tariffs and import quotas.
الصفحة 27 - Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, the US Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, and the International City/County Management Association.
الصفحة 131 - Industrial ecology is the means by which humanity can deliberately and rationally approach and maintain a desirable carrying capacity, given continued economic, cultural, and technological evolution. The concept requires that an industrial system be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them.
الصفحة 20 - Chairman, is the one that deems that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
الصفحة 17 - Freetrade agreements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA...
الصفحة 9 - ... could just use our product on an existing method. That's not even a new method. So as far as the innovation happening? It's happening. Is it hard to get into the hands of environmental laboratories? It's very hard. Mr. BAKER. Mr. Gardiner, as Vice President Gore put it in your testimony on page 7, the next generation of environmental policy must stress flexibility with increasing accountability and environmental quality. Without flexibility, we will not innovate. You mention in your testimony,...
الصفحة 182 - Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce.