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Cap of Good Hope
Biggest energy companies in U.S. call for caps on carbon emissions |
Amanda Griscom Little |
06 Apr 2006 |
Muckraker |
| Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy. A group of high-powered energy and utility executives for the first time issued this directive to Washington: Bring on the carbon caps! The Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard statements from leaders representing eight big energy companies, inc ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Public Nuisance No. 1
A bold lawsuit may have utilities reconsidering their fight against regs |
Amanda Griscom |
30 Jul 2004 |
Muckraker |
| A coal-fired power plant. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey. It may have sounded like the understatement of the year when a lawsuit was filed last week against five major U.S. energy companies, alleged to be among the biggest global-warming culprits in the nation, on the legal grounds that they're causing a "public nuisance." In reality it may have been one of the ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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