Washington – Business Roundtable today released Inventing the Future: How Technology Is Reshaping the Energy and Environmental Landscape – a report that highlights, through a series of individual company vignettes, how the private sector is leveraging technology to solve real-world energy and environmental challenges here at home and across the globe.

“Business Roundtable companies are inventing and using cutting-edge technologies to create a more efficient, secure and sustainable future,” said Nicholas K. Akins, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Electric Power and Chair of the Business Roundtable Energy and Environment Committee. “This report demonstrates how the advancement and strategic deployment of technology is key to economic – and environmental – success.”

Each year, Business Roundtable companies invest tens of billions of dollars in research and development on energy and environmental technologies. The new Business Roundtable report showcases examples of how investment is providing benefits to the economy, communities and people around the world.

For more information on Inventing the Future: How Technology Is Reshaping the Energy and Environmental Landscape and Business Roundtable efforts to build an environmentally sustainable future, visit: http://brt.org/issues/energy-environment.

Business Roundtable released an economic growth agenda earlier this year that includes tax reform, expanded trade opportunities, immigration reform, fiscal stability and infrastructure investment. Learn more about the Business Roundtable 2015 growth agenda here.