Duke Power’s CEO wants it his way
March 9th, 2009 by Rhiannon Bowman in News
Jim Rogers, Duke Power’s CEO, is still pouting about not being appointed Energy Secretary.
Jim Rogers has a new opponent in the battle over reducing carbon emissions: Barack Obama.
The Duke Energy Corp. chief executive has quickly become a vocal — and highly visible — critic of the cap-and-trade proposal the president included in the budget he submitted to Congress last week.
Rogers calls Obama’s idea a “cap-and-tax” plan rather than the cap-and-trade approach supported by Duke and others seeking a compromise on environmental issues.
Read the rest of this Charlotte Business Journal article here.
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