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Lisa Jackson Fights Back. By Timothy Gardner, Reuters, March 8, 2010. "'Supposedly these efforts have been put forward to protect jobs,' Lisa Jackson told a meeting at the National Press Club. 'In reality, they will have serious negative economic effects.' Jackson said industry needs clear signals from the U.S. government on greenhouse gas regulations. Otherwise investors would have 'little incentive' to put money into clean energy jobs. The country would fall further behind other countries in the race for clean energy, which would hurt the economy, she added. Jackson said if EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions was stopped, rules to make cars and light trucks become more efficient would be put on hold. That would leave 'American automakers once again facing a patchwork of state standards,' that could hurt profits at the companies which have experienced hard times already... Jackson signaled there was room to compromise with industry in order to get a bill putting a price on carbon emissions... Jackson said she has met with Graham and Kerry on the bill and that it should also include incentives for alternatives, like offshore wind power, and energy efficiency."