Pressure on President Bush to take action on global warming grew Friday night as Wal-Mart (WMT) threw its support to a coalition of major U.S. corporations and environmental groups pressing for the quick implementation of national policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establish a carbon trading market. The group – called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership – will unveil its climate change initiative on Monday in Washington, D.C. The coalition includes the CEOs of such old-line industrial behemoths as Alcoa (AA), Caterpillar (CAT) DuPont (DD) and General Electric (GE) as well as financial services firm Lehman Brothers (LEH). Other companies in the coalition are utilities PG&E Corp. (PCG), FPL (FPL) and Duke Energy (DUK). Joining them are the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense, World Resources Institute and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Said Linda Dillman, Wal-Mart’s executive vice president for sustainability, in a statement: "We endorse the group’s call for strong national policies and market-based programs for greenhouse gas reductions."
Wal-Mart Backs Corporate Drive for U.S. Global Warming Legislation
January 20, 2007 by Todd Woody
Green Wombat 
Respectfully Yours,
Tomas Elijio Ibarra
Co Founder
Con Drama Inc
If the big eight nations pledged $billions for alternate energy development and commercialization then the fear factor $premium and intrensic value of oil would go down. The result would be less money for terrorism and we get our troops back sooner.
Peace.
Here’s an article that has some more information about the coalition:
GE, Lehman, to Call for Carbon Cap Before Bush Speech (Update1)
By Kim Chipman
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahPLMtn2eINI&refer=us
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jOINING THE CROWD IS CALLED ‘COVERING YOU ASS’.
From the following two articles, it looks like Wal-Mart is planning on covering their roofs with something like 100MWs of solar power.
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Wal-Mart’s Solar Dream
by Hank Green, Missoula, Montana on 12.31.06
Business & Politics (news)
Wal-Mart has put out a request for proposals (RFP) to several large
solar outfits.
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The Wal-Mart project could more than 300 kilowatts of panels on over
300 stores thus providing Wal-Mart with more than 100 megawatts of
solar power.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/walmarts_solar.php
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Job Opportunity: Move to Bentonville, Change the World!
Source: Joel Makower
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=34363
[article about new job position at Wal-Mart, formally titled “Corporate Partnerships Project Manager – Wal-Mart”]
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Wal-Mart imports everything from China anyway so it doesn’t care if greenhouse gas regulations and carbon taxes destroy even more American jobs.