David Victor Quoted in The Wall Street Journal
China Fuels Energy Innovation
12/06/2011
Brian Spegele,
The Wall Street Journal
BEIJING—Will Latta, the founder of clean-energy company LP Amina Inc., says he tried last year to interest U.S. power utilities in testing a new technology that reduces pollution from burning coal.
Rebuffed, he took his invention to the coal-belt city of Fengtai in eastern China, where he found a partner eager to install the multimillion-dollar technology.
"In the U.S. there's a resistance to demonstrate new technology," says Mr. Latta, a 42-year-old Miami native who founded LP Amina in 2007. "They don't like to be the first."
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David G. Victor is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
