GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008 U.S. presidential election would impact the green economy.

The panel took place during the Second Annual GreenBiz-BSR Leadership dinner during the BSR conference in New York in early November. Panelists included Marc Gunther, formerly of Fortune, Adam Aston of Business Week, Kate Galbraith of The New York Times and BSR's Eric Olson, during the conversation moderated by GreenBiz.com's Executive Editor Joel Makower.

In this clip, Makower asks BSR's Olson about the concerns and hopes of the business community related to the two presidental candidates and their environmental policies. 

"In every case that I’m aware of, the assumption under an eventual Obama win was that the change would be more dramatic, more wholesale, not just in climate and energy but in terms of the breadth and depth of change, a possibly reneergized and more activist EPA, and so on and so forth," Olson said.