SOUTHERN COMPANY CLIMATE REPORT FAILS TO ANALYZE STRINGENT CAPS

Southern Company has issued its long-awaited climate change report to shareholders without analyzing the potential impact of highly stringent regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States over the next decade, marking a contrast to several other electric utilities which have recently said in similar reports that such regulations are inevitable. The controversial report also comes as a group of state treasurers and other pension funds have agreed to spend $1 billion over the next year to promote...