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Environmentalist Jonathon Lash (RPCV Dominican Republic) even had respectful things to say about GE's continued emphasis on "clean coal" and nuclear technology

Environmentalist Jonathon Lash (RPCV Dominican Republic) even had respectful things to say about GE's continued emphasis on clean coal and nuclear technology

Environmentalist Jonathon Lash (RPCV Dominican Republic) even had respectful things to say about GE's continued emphasis on "clean coal" and nuclear technology

It Was Just My Ecomagination

GE kicks off ambitious green initiative

By Amanda Griscom Little

10 May 2005

Last night, General Electric Chair and CEO Jeffrey Immelt canoodled with Congress members and industry top brass at a swish cocktail party on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., celebrating the launch of "ecomagination," an initiative he announced earlier in the day to ramp up development of clean technologies and lighten the company's Goliath-like environmental footprint.

Guests nibbled organic canapés and sipped wine produced by a solar-powered California vineyard (equipped with GE's own photovoltaic panels) as they perused exhibitions of the company's new technologies -- here a life-sized model of a hybrid-engine train and a state-of-the-art wind-turbine blade, there a super-efficient washing machine and a sophisticated diorama of coal-gasification technology.

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The goals were developed in partnership with the World Resources Institute, a green think tank, whose president, Jonathan Lash, chaired President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development. The GE initiative "is enough to make even a gloomy environmentalist hopeful," Lash said at the launch event for "ecomagination," and went on to call Immelt "not only a visionary, but in the absence of coherent national policies ... encouraging energy efficiency and use of renewable energy, he is just plain gutsy."

GE Clean Coal Plant

Lash even had respectful things to say about GE's continued emphasis on "clean coal" and nuclear technology. "Five years ago, I had to struggle to suppress my gag response to terms like 'clean coal,'" he told Muckraker, "but I've since faced the sobering reality that every two weeks China opens a new coal-fired power plant. India is moving at almost the same pace. There is huge environmental value in developing ways to mitigate these [plants'] emissions" with coal gasification and sequestration of carbon-dioxide emissions. On the issue of nuclear power -- of which Immelt is a strong advocate, as GE manufactures nuclear reactors -- Lash said, "Global warming is the most pressing environmental problem humankind has ever faced. I wouldn't push any potential solution off the table, and I think nuclear has to be a part of the carbon-free energy mix."

Lash applauded, in particular, Immelt's insistence that his company's voluntary effort is by no means a substitute for federal action: "Industry cannot solve the problems of the world alone -- we need to work in concert with government," Immelt said at the launch event, and went on to encourage federal leaders to begin by "clarifying policy" and "committing to market mechanisms."





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