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  Energy CEOs encourage emissions caps
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Last EditedArmyDem  Feb 14, 2007 01:19am
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News DateWednesday, February 14, 2007 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionBig-business executives tell a Senate panel that the U.S. should take the lead on climate change.

By Richard Simon, Times Staff Writer
February 14, 2007

WASHINGTON — Corporate CEOs do not usually come to Capitol Hill to lobby for more government regulation. But that's what a group of executives did Tuesday, urging Congress to cap emissions blamed for global warming.

Peter Darbee, chairman and chief executive officer of PG&E Corp. — parent of California's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. — called for the United States to be "at the forefront of addressing global climate change" by approving a mandatory program to reduce greenhouse gases.

Charles O. Holliday Jr., chairman and chief executive of DuPont Co., added that he believed "voluntary efforts alone will not solve the problem."

Proponents of a mandatory program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions see support from such businessmen as crucial to getting legislation through the narrowly divided Congress and past President Bush's veto pen.
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