Pollution fight cools climate [scam] talks - POLITICO.com

Closed-door meetings between a select group of environmentalists and a handful of electric utility executives may determine the fate of climate change legislation in the Senate. [Wait, what? Who elected *them*?]
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While Senate staff are not in the room, a failure to reach agreement among this critical subset of interests may drive Reid to drop greenhouse gas caps altogether from the bill headed to the floor in less than two weeks.
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At the table for industry: Duke Energy President and CEO Jim Rogers, Exelon Chairman and CEO John Rowe, Dominion Resources President and CEO Thomas Farrell and PNM Resources Chairman and CEO Jeff Sterba. Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances Beinecke and David Hawkins, director of the NRDC climate center and a former Environmental Protection Agency air pollution director from the Carter administration, represented the environmental groups.
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Meanwhile, each side in the private talks is prepared to accuse the other of bringing down the whole bill.

The environmental groups “are the key to any deal, not the utilities,” said Wolff, a former top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “They hold all the cards.”