This new technology is not readily available in China, but it is available to
utilities in the
U.S. Which brings us to the second article — an announcement by TXU, a
giant Texas energy company, that it intends to build 11 new coal - fired power plants in Texas, plus another dozen or so elsewhere in the country.
In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and
U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the
utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services
giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).