U.S. Panel Splits Over New Technology Rules for Carbon
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A panel advising the Obama administration on carbon dioxide regulations is deadlocked over what pollution-cutting technology power plants, factories and refineries should be required to use starting in 2011.
After nearly a year of talks, the work group couldn’t reconcile “divergent points of view,” according to a copy of its report to the Environmental Protection Agency. Companies represented on the panel included utilities American Electric Power Co. and Southern Co. It also included officials from national environmental groups and state regulatory agencies.