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Biggest Energy Companies in U.S. call for Caps on Carbon Emissions

Biggest Energy Companies in U.S. call for Caps on Carbon Emissions
Check out this lead paragraph in the online Grist magazine for April 6: Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy.

Check out this lead paragraph in the online Grist magazine for April 6:

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!

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!

They have the details if you want them… thanks to excellent reporting by Amanda Griscom Little from a packed US Senate hearing. She quotes John Stanton, a vice president of National Environmental Trust: "I began the morning far more cynical than I felt at the end of the day."

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