As the United States begins to produce clean, homemade energy, it must make efforts to strengthen the domestic manufacturing base that will supply the hardware.

Thanks in part to incentives in the U.S. economic stimulus package, investors around the globe favor clean energy projects in America.

China currently leads the world in clean energy manufacturing, and its economic stimulus plan was larger and greener.

“A lack of national standards, an absence of strong climate and energy policy, and never-ending subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, have hindered America’s ability to compete with other countries for top talent and investment capital,” according to a piece at It’s Getting Hot In Here.

The 11-state, 34-city, Keep It Made In America bus tour hosted a Capitol Hill teach-in yesterday.

Ford nearly killed President Obama’s landmark fuel efficiency standards deal, which brought together  states, auto makers, and environmentalists.

Local Green: Now that the Obama administration has set a national fuel efficiency standard, California is working on pushing auto emissions reductions to the next level.

The Economist’s “Profiles In Stupidity” tackled Representative Joe Barton (R. - Texas), a prominent climate change denier who reasoned yesterday on C-SPAN that C02 must be harmless because it is found in soft drinks.

An Arizona man says he’s developed the first solar-powered motorcycle.

–Christopher Greenspan

Tags: California, China, clean energy investment, Economic Stimulus Package, Ford, fuel efficiency standards, Keep It Made In America, Manufacturing, Motorcycles, Obama Administration, Solar Power

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