'Utilities and Environmentalists Haggle Over Climate Bill'
The New York Times
Jul. 19, 2010
"Intense negotiations have been unfolding over the possible architecture of a Senate energy bill pulled together by the chamber’s majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, to control those emissions, beginning with coal-fired power plants. Lobbyists from environmental groups and from publicly owned utilities have been meeting to see if they can find some common ground...
The waltz of negotiations, closely watched by Politico, involves moderate forces in the two camps. Groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Bipartisan Policy Center are arrayed on one side, and investor-owned utilities like Duke Energy, Exelon, PNM and Pacific Gas & Electric on the other."
