At Center Ring in Senate Climate Debate: Coal vs. Natural Gas
By Anne C. Mulkern / The New York Times
July 13, 2009
The battle over climate legislation will now pit the country’s top power sources against each other.
Saying they failed to protect their interests as a landmark bill came together and passed the House last month, natural gas executives are forming a strategy to influence rewrites in the Senate.
“There are a lot of people in the industry who are scrambling their forces right now,” said Fred Julander, founder and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference, an annual event that drew 1,800 industry people to Denver last week. “Whether we can learn and get up to speed — and it’s a steep learning curve — is the question.”