Greenhouse Gases: What Now? What Next? By Mark Burlingame Senior Director
On January - 28 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
The U.S. power industry is all too familiar with trendy policies and ideas, oftentimes thrust upon it by outsiders with an agenda. However, there are trends that energy companies and their vendors would do well to follow closely over the course of the next year. One such trend in the United States is the regulation of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs). Climate change and energy are now intertwined as demonstrated by the following major legislation proposed in Congress in 2009:
• The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (passed by the House Representatives and stalled in the Senate) and
• The Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act of 2009 (proposed and stalled in the Senate)
