Mike Morris » CEO, American Electric Power -- in 2007, AEP was the biggest single emitter of CO2 in America. | |
| David Ratcliffe »
CEO, Southern Company -- a Georgia-based utility, its coal plants generate CO2 emissions second only to AEP. | |
| Jim Rogers »
CEO, Duke Energy -- one of America's major utilities, it operates in the Midwest and Southeast. Seventy percent of its power comes from coal. |
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