Green Trade Deficit?
Posted by scapozzola on 06/23/2009
The New America Foundation has issued a report that notes a worrying increase in "America's dependence on foreign countries to produce green technologies":
"If current trends continue, the green trade deficit can be expected to widen further as the administration's agenda increases domestic demand but without sufficient measures to increase domestic production. If the deficit continues to grow, the United States will forego the creation of millions of high-wage, high-skill green manufacturing jobs and lose its potential to be a global producer as well as a consumer of green technologies."Read more.
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