When U.S. climate legislation went off track in late April, the pressure to get it rolling again came not only from environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), but from companies like General Electric, Shell, and Rio Tinto.rnAll three belong to the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), an amalgamation of leading corporations and NGOs lobbying for the creation of a credible nationwide greenhouse gas reduction scheme for the entire United States. Some USCAP members, like Applied Energy Services (AES), have long partnered with NGOs to promote green development, while others have track records that are decidedly climate unfriendly. For these companies, the argument in favor of a consensus on greenhouse-gas reduction is often strategic: they need to make long-term capital investments, so they need to know the long-term regulatory framework within which they operate.
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