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ECO:nomics: A chat with Jim Rogers
Duke Energy CEO defends the need for free permit allocations |
David Roberts |
25 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| One of the most interesting political dynamics emerging around climate policy is the clash between coal utilities and utilities that rely more on natural gas and nuclear. (Most of the former are regulated, while most of the latter are, to one extent or another, deregulated or restructured.) Gas and nuke utilities stand to benefit from a cap-and-trade program that prices carbon steeply and quickly, since their fleets are already (relatively) low-carbon. Coal utilities ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenish companies, interview (all these topics) |
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Rogers and Me
An interview with Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers |
Amanda Griscom Little |
04 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Meet Jim Rogers, a great American paradox. He's the top gun at Duke Energy, a huge (and hugely polluting) power company; he's also one of the nation's most dogged advocates for federal regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions. Jim Rogers. Duke Energy operates smack in the heart of coal country in the Midwest and Southeast and derives 70 percent of its power from the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Rogers ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, greenish companies, interview, regulation (all these topics) |
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Rappin' with Joe Cool
An interview with Joseph Romm on becoming a cool company |
Lisa Hymas |
13 Jul 1999 |
Arts and Minds |
| Cool Companies by Joseph J. Romm Island Press, 1999, 277 pages Joseph Romm is director of the nonprofit Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which helps businesses reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In 1997, he served as assistant secretary of energy efficiency and renewable energy at the Energy Department. Romm's new book, Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits an ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, interview (all these topics) |
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