Major Firms Leave US Climate Change Partnership

摘要

BP and ConocoPhillips are leaving a business coalition that played a major role in the crafting of climate change legislation that passed the US House of Representatives last year. Conoco said Tuesday it is quitting the US Climate Action Partnership (US CAP) because climate legislation that has emerged from Congress thus far would place an unfair burden on US oil refiners and does not recognize the role that natural gas can play in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.s