ConocoPhillips seeks emissions limits

By Tom Stundza -- Purchasing, 4/11/2007 7:49:00 AM

ConocoPhillips has signed on to the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, becoming "the first major U.S.-based oil company to add its voice to the call for a federal global-warming-emission cap, in the latest sign that U.S. companies are jockeying to shape any legislation," The Wall Street Journal reports.

British-based BP has also joined USCAP, which supports—and wants to play a role in defining—limits on the emissions of gases blamed for causing global warming. But it is the only other oil company involved.

Still, with like-minded Democrats now controlling Capitol Hill, the congressional enthusiasm for renewable energy sources in recent weeks has prompted more than 20 companies or trade groups to hire lobbyists who will promote "their particular non-fossil fuel or other 'climate-friendly' technologies," TheHill.com now reports. And "roughly three-quarters of those clients are hiring lobbyists for the first time," The Hill publication’s report says, citing Senate lobbying records.