Nicole Lederer
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Nicole Lederer is Co-Founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs, “The Independent Business Voice for the Environment”. Started in 2000, E2 is a national, non-partisan organization of business leaders who promote good environmental policy to grow the economy – advancing the idea that better environmental performance is linked to stronger economic results. Nicole does advocacy work at both the state and national level, offering legislators a pro-environment business perspective. She leads E2's advocacy agenda in Washington, DC, supporting policy that fosters environmental innovation, sustainable economic development and green job creation. Nicole graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Zoology. Prior to focusing her efforts on the environment she did medical research in cancer biology and neonatal intensive care. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, and has two daughters.

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Don't Believe the Fantasy Job Claims: Keystone XL is Not in Our Best Interest

3 Comments | Posted January 16, 2012 | 22:27:34 (EST)

Groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable say they speak for the country's business interests.

When it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline, they most definitely do not.

In his "State of American Business speech," U.S. Chamber president Tom Donohue once again trotted out his fantasy...

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New UT Poll Shows Americans Want Clean Energy

Posted October 20, 2011 | 18:09:47 (EST)

A poll just out from the University of Texas shows that most Americans think we need to change how we get and use our energy.

Only 14 percent of respondents to the University of Texas at Austin's Energy Poll said they think the country is going in the...

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No Reason to Give Up on Clean Energy

Posted September 16, 2011 | 13:08:44 (EST)

I spend a lot of time in Silicon Valley, the birthplace of technologies that have transformed our world and powered our last economic boom.

But rest assured that for every Google or Apple or Intel or Facebook, there are hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of other unknown technology companies that...

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A Clean Energy Future For Our Troops, For Us

Posted June 3, 2011 | 14:33:42 (EST)

Congress is debating the Defense Department authorization bill, the legislation that allocates the $700 billion needed to fund our military through 2012.

Wrapped deep in the legislation is an important issue we can all relate to -- fuel costs. The DOD consumes two percent...

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A New Military-Industrial Collaboration - Good News for Clean Energy and Security

Posted May 19, 2011 | 18:54:26 (EST)

Co-authored by Lt. Gen. Norman R. Seip (USAF-RET.)

Osama bin Laden is gone, but in the nearly 10 years since his attack on our country, the primary threat to our economic and national security -- our dependence on foreign fuel -- remains.

Rather than embracing rational energy policy to advance...

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Where the Jobs Are

Posted October 20, 2010 | 17:00:17 (EST)

In the fall of 2000, a small but visionary group of environmental entrepreneurs bet big on our clean energy future. We believed we could create jobs and spur growth by investing in secure and renewable sources of power, new ways to recycle, and the next generation of energy and resource...

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