WHEN: February 23, 2009  
 
WHERE: Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

WHO: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund will host a forum entitled “National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy on Monday, February 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta will convene the forum with Senator Reid.
 
The half day event will bring together a select group of high-level government, business, labor and advocacy group leaders with a focus on developing a plan and key guiding principles to lead the transformation of U.S. energy policy and to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil. Confirmed attendees include Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and energy executive T. Boone Pickens among other esteemed participants.
 
WHAT: The forum will focus on modernizing and expanding the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil by examining short- and long-term solutions to replace foreign oil with domestic resources to fuel vehicles and trucks, including natural gas. 

 Read more on Reid's efforts to promote renewable energy in Nevada and across America.

For more information on the National Clean Energy Summit: www.cleanenergysummit.org