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This blog was originally posted on the Microsoft Green Blog. Last Thursday evening our very own TJ DiCaprio was awarded the Environmental Protection Agency Individual Climate Leadership Awardfor the work she has done to reduce carbon pollution and address climate change as Microsoft’s Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability. TJ was recognized for the role she has played in our internal carbon [...]
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One of the unique and distinguishing characteristics about ITI is the depth of expertise of our advocacy team. We take pride in that fact and the ways that our team helps to find policy solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing the global economy. Today, we are excited to announce the start of a new ITI practice focused on addressing global privacy policy, and are bringing on board a top-notch [...]
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The issues of privacy and data innovation cut across economic sectors, trade relationships, and consumer opportunities. They are at the forefront of the tech sector’s work, and the news that ITI has hired Yael Weinman to lead its policy work in this arena is welcome, indeed. Yael’s previous experience, most recently at the FTC, combines experience in privacy, international relations and new technologies. [...]
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I joined a conversation this week (on Feb 26) called the “GreenGov Dialogue on Demand Response” that was hosted by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). It brought together leaders from government, the private sector, non-profits and academia to identify opportunities to reduce our nation’s periods of peak energy demand, promote a more stable electric grid, and help the Federal Government [...]
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The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held its Hearing Tuesday on "American Energy Security and Innovation: An Assessment of Private-Sector Successes and Opportunities in Energy Efficient Technologies." The staff background memo, the witness list, written testimony and other info is here. I only caught portions, as the Hearing lasted 4 hours, and was held concurrently with the CEQ-hosted GreenGov Dialogue [...]
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The expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) is both an ambitious and achievable trade deal that can be completed this year. But it’s going to require a lot more sweat equity from the private sector, as well as the Obama Administration. That’s the message ITI and 19 other major economic and business organizations today sent in a letter to President Obama. In that letter, the heads [...]
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We’re two days from the deadline that Congress and the President set for themselves to find a solution to dodge the indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts to federally funded programs, otherwise known as sequestration. Sequestration, if you remember, was the mechanism approved by Congress and the President in 2011 to spur greater focus by both to take steps address the nation’s deficits. It was believed, [...]
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In a report that would have made Casablanca’s Captain Renault blush, this morning’s Marketplace Morning Report discovered the “shocking” news that U.S.-headquartered multinational companies keep their foreign earnings in foreign markets, and by doing so, they are able to defer any U.S. taxes on those earnings until it is invested in the U.S. This isn’t new -- tax deferral been a feature of U.S. tax [...]
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As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan meets with President Obama today at the White House, this is the right moment for him to announce that his nation is ready to join the United States and 10 other countries in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Such a step would increase considerably the potential economic significance of an agreement and almost certainly ensure that, if [...]
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The White House today released a report that is intended to set the stage for greater coordination across the federal government to protect the intellectual property of American business. As part of the release, I participated in a panel discussion that examined the global challenges that companies face in this arena. Here’s what I had to say, excerpted from the full discussion. * * * * * Dean [...]
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