By Darren Samuelsohn and Coral Davenport

Politico

July 14, 2010

Two sides in the ongoing debate try to find common ground:

"Several key figures met Monday night at The Caucus Room restaurant to hash out a range of issues, from the distribution of valuable emissions allocations in a utility-only climate bill to the potential retirement of aging coal-fired power plants. But the talks ran aground over the air pollution rules.

At the table for industry: Duke Energy President and CEO Jim Rogers, Exelon Chairman and CEO John Rowe, Dominion Resources President and CEO Thomas Farrell, PNM Resources Chairman and CEO Jeff Sterba and Melissa Lavinson, senior director of federal affairs for San Francisco-based PG&E Corp. Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, Pew Center on Global Climate Change President Eileen Claussen, Dan Lashof, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s climate center, and Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, represented the environmental and non-governmental groups."

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