Business Opportunities May Complicate U.S. Opposition To CO2 Rules

Some U.S. industry groups see increasing business opportunities over the next several years in efforts to slow global warming, though it is not clear that those opportunities will be enough to tip the domestic political balance toward mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, according to industry sources, consultants, and environmentalists. President Bush's victory in the November election makes it less likely that mandatory U.S emissions controls will occur anytime soon, given his long-standing opposition to such limits, according...