Owens Corning to Participate in 'National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy' Forum
February 20 2009 - 6:53PM
PR Newswire (US)
CEO Mike Thaman Joins Top Energy Influencers in Shaping U.S. Energy
Policy TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Owens
Corning (NYSE:OC), a world leader in building materials and glass
fiber reinforcements, today announced that CEO Mike Thaman will
participate in The Center for American Progress Action Fund's
"National Clean Energy Project" forum to be held Monday, Feb 23, in
Washington, D.C. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will serve as
the Honorary Chair of the event that will gather the country's most
prominent government, business and nonprofit leaders to discuss
ways of building a clean energy environment. Mr. Thaman is among 30
elite leaders invited to participate in the roundtable discussion.
The twin goals of this summit will be to explore ways of increasing
U.S. reliance on clean energy and reducing the country's dependence
on foreign oil. "Homes and commercial buildings consume 40 percent
of our nation's energy and 74 percent of all electricity consumed,"
said Thaman. "There are 80 million under-insulated homes in the
United States. Any comprehensive energy policy must include energy
efficiency and improved insulation in existing and new homes and
buildings. I appreciate being part of this very important
discussion." The highly select group of participants include former
U.S. President Bill Clinton, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore,
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Ken Salazar, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate
Change Carol Browner, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Jeff Bingaman, oil
executive T. Boone Pickens and environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr.
These and other energy and environmental thought leaders will work
to develop a plan and key guiding principles that lead the
transformation of U.S. energy policy and reduce the nation's
dependence on foreign oil. 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,
including natural gas. "No discussion about energy independence is
complete without addressing the need to reduce energy use in our
nation's homes and buildings," said T. Boone Pickens. "Owens
Corning and Mike Thaman lend a powerful voice to this important
message. As a leading U.S. corporation, they understand the threat
that foreign oil dependency has on our economic and national
security and that conservation, efficiency and utilizing domestic
fuel alternatives is critically important. Monday's energy Summit
is going to be a critically important forum where we can, with the
nation's political and industry leaders working together, establish
the guidelines and principles that will be incorporated into our
country's energy policies and legislation. I look forward to
continued collaboration with Owens Corning as we work to address
our country's energy solutions." A recent survey conducted by Owens
Corning found that only 27 percent of Americans correctly
identified buildings as the major energy culprit. Owens Corning has
worked extensively to draw attention to this important, yet
overlooked fact among consumers, the building community, political
and environmental leaders and others. In December 2008, Owens
Corning became the first corporate supporter of T. Boone Pickens'
Pickens Plan, which expanded the Plan to call for greater energy
efficiency in buildings. About Owens Corning Owens Corning
(NYSE:OC) is a leading global producer of residential and
commercial building materials, glass fiber reinforcements and
engineered materials for composite systems. A Fortune 500 company
for 54 consecutive years, Owens Corning is committed to driving
sustainability through delivering solutions, transforming markets
and enhancing lives. Founded in 1938, Owens Corning is a
market-leading innovator of glass fiber technology with sales of $6
billion in 2008 and 18,000 employees in 26 countries on five
continents. Additional information is available at
http://www.owenscorning.com/. About the Pickens Plan Unveiled on
July 8, 2008 by T. Boone Pickens, the Pickens Plan is a detailed
solution for ending the United States' growing dependence on
foreign oil. Earlier this year, when oil prices reached
$140/barrel, America was spending about $700 billion for foreign
oil, equaling the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.
That figure has decreased some while oil prices have retreated, but
the U.S. is still dependent on foreign nations for nearly 70
percent of its oil, representing a continuing national economic and
national security threat. The plan calls for investing in power
generation from domestic renewable resources such as wind and using
our abundant supplies of natural gas as a transportation fuel,
replacing more than one-third of our imported oil. More than
1,500,000 people have joined the Pickens Army through the website
http://www.pickensplan.com/, which has had over 14,000,000 hits.
For more information on the Pickens Plan please visit our website.
DATASOURCE: Owens Corning CONTACT: Scott Deitz, Investor &
Media Relations, Owens Corning, +1-419-248-8935 Web Site:
http://www.owenscorning.com/
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