Energy industry preparing for limits

When the head of the American Public Power Association spoke recently to electric utility operators in Minnesota, he had a straightforward message: Federal regulation of greenhouse gases is coming. Get ready for it.

“The issue is no longer whether there is a human contribution to global warming but the extent of that contribution,” said Alan Richardson, president and chief executive of the group, whose members supply 15 percent of the nation’s power. There is, he added, “an emerging public consensus and a building political directive that inaction is not a viable strategy.”

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