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Ten of the nation’s largest companies, including Caterpillar and former Global Climate Coalition [7] member, Duke Power [8], say they now want Congressional legislation to limit climate change--including at least a 10 percent annual national decline in carbon dioxide emissions. A Sierra Club [9] spokesman offered hope that the companies will “throw not just their messaging weight but their political weight behind [the call for legislation].” Thomas Tanton, Institute for Energy Research [10] vice president and global warming skeptic [11], called the turnabout a “good defense" against more stringent regulation. "Something less bad is better than something really bad.” How will Congress respond? Reporters for the Washington Post suggest that there is a “Harry and Louise”-type [12] political ad by industry lurking to scare away innovation-driven legislators. “If you’re a Democrat in a moderate district, this is not the kind of vote you want to take,” Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute [13], another industry-supported group, told the Post.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/2282/jonathan-rosenblum
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment/global-warming
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/issue-management
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government/us-congress
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment
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[7] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Climate_Coalition
[8] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Duke_Energy
[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sierra_Club
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
[11] http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20070116-085702-9753r.htm
[12] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201508_pf.html
[13] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute
[14] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/23/CEOCLIMATE.TMP