Word: coale
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...Yesterday some of the task force reps met with the coal industry. Are there going to be meetings like that with other groups, including environmentalists...
...coal industry chosen first to talk...
...must treat developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto - though the Senate was probably driven by more than mere conscience. One of the 1997 resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from the coal-producing state of West Virginia. Other interests - notably the oil and coal industries, both heavy contributors to Bush's election campaign - also had the President...
...That's why Green Mountain has yet to see profits, although some big?and surprising?names support it. (BP Amoco and Nuon, a Dutch utility, each pumped in $50 million last fall and took over the chairmanship from, odder still, Texas billionaire Sam Wyly, an oil and coal man who is also a longtime friend of President Bush's.) The Golden State could have been a huge market, but on Feb. 1 California stripped consumers of the right to choose their electricity provider, be it green or brown...
...took President Bush less than two months to break his campaign pledge to restrict carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired electric-utility plants, despite widespread scientific agreement that such emissions contribute to global warming [NATION, March 26]. By doing so, Bush also broke another promise--his pledge to restore honesty and integrity to the office of the President. SUZANNE DYER-GEAR Westminster...