The Changing Climate for Environmental Legislation
By Daniel Stone
Newsweek
Aug. 31, 2010
“Maybe the science and environmental community needs to appeal directly to the GOP,” says Paul Bledsoe, a strategist for the National Commission on Energy Policy, an arm of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Based on the housing industry’s average share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1980 to 2007, the infographic illustrates that 2.3 percent or $350 billion is “missing” in potential growth.