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Progress Energy’s 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report includes a separate chapter focused on global climate change. As an update to the company’s 2008 Global Climate Change Report to Shareholders, this chapter includes the company’s position on climate-change policy, actions to reduce carbon emissions, and an evaluation of proposed climate-change polices and their potential impacts.
Progress Energy is pursuing a balanced strategy to address climate change while meeting demand growth that includes expanding energy-efficiency programs, investing in renewable and alternative energy resources and investing in a state-of-the-art power system. In addition to outlining the company’s initiatives, it calls for a national policy to reduce carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy.
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