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Last night, Congress passed free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Colombia, an important step toward opening dynamic and fast growing markets. After waiting for several years, these agreements will help level the playing field and allow U.S. companies to export more goods and services abroad, which will [...]

One unquestionable bright spot in the U.S. Economy these days are exports. With many trading partners growing two, three or even four times faster than the US economy, American exports have been growing steadily and today support millions of jobs here at home. As the second-largest manufacturing exporter in [...]

Contributor Vic Abate is the vice president of GE’s renewables business.
As the vice-president of GE’s Renewables business, I am pleased to see the focus President Obama has on doubling renewable energy in the U.S. during the next three years. I believe this vision to be a great call to action [...]

Contributor, Bob Gilligan, is the vice president of transmission & distribution at GE Energy.
If Thomas Edison were to return today, he would be all-too familiar with our electrical infrastructure. Contrast this to the return of Alexander Graham Bell, who would need a college course covering topics ranging from the [...]

The United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which includes GE among its members – provided detailed recommendations to Congress on a new sustainable national climate protection program. USCAP is a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations that have come together to call on the federal government to quickly [...]

Hello GE Reports. This is Karan Bhatia, the vice president and senior counsel of international law and policy at GE. I’d like to talk to you about strengthening the “rule of law,” a concept that means countries have legal and judicial systems that afford companies certainty in doing business there.

GE, along with many other industrial companies, recently sent a letter to the leaders of the European governments on the importance of financing for cleaner coal technology demonstration projects (like Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle). The letter is extremely well-written and thorough, but may be a wee bit technical for those [...]