Co-op chief suggests steps, including a new commission, to make anti-carbon plans work

摘要

Glenn English, the head of the lobby for 900 rural electric cooperatives, is urging Congress to consider a climate change plan that calls for building transmission and nuclear plants to avoid a "train wreck" of high power prices and blackouts wrought by penalties on coal-fired generation. "We may suggest several controversial ideas just to change the dynamics of this," English said last week. "We believe there will be [climate change] legislation. There will be goals established. We fully expect our friends in Congress and whoever the president is will advance something.