Energy Industry Preparing For Greenhouse Gas Limits

This article speaks of how the energy industry is preparing themselves for future government regulations of greenhouse gases. The article has a number in the industry acknowledging that steps must be taken to limit our footprint.

Companies such as Shell, Duke Energy, Exelon, General Electric, Sempra Energy and PNM Resources, a utility based in Albuquerque, N.M., have gone on record supporting mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

The only two companies on record opposing new regulations are American Electric Power and the Southern Company, electric utilities in the Midwest and South whose power plants are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the country. They prefer voluntary reductions.