By Steve Milloy ——Bio and Archives--January 20, 2011
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Tom Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, told POLITICO that he has had informal talks about a deal for power companies with White House energy adviser Carol Browner, who brokered the closed-door car deal, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. “But no in-depth discussions yet,” he said.About a "car deal" for utilities, Politico reported Glenn English, the president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and a former Oklahoma Democratic congressman as saying,
“We may be dreaming, I don’t know.”So as we've been saying, just because "cap-and-trade" is dead, that does not mean that the push for climate legislation is also dead. Such advocacy is, in fact, alive and kicking — and it's a real threat because:
"I don’t think a deal between industry, the utilities and the Obama administration that most likely would lead to higher utility prices for the American consumer is a deal that House Republicans would be comfortable with. But certainly, we’d have to take a look before making that determination." [Emphasis added]Stay tuned…
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Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and GreenHellBlog.com and is the author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them