so the plot thickens-the Law firm of Bracewell/Guiliani and global warming

Just wait until my next ltte-Joe Barton is MY congressman,the little rat-bastard.


http://www.bracewellgiuliani.com/common/content.asp?ContentID=42
A new chapter in a 60-year history of global excellence began during 2005, as Bracewell & Patterson became Bracewell & Giuliani. Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined the firm as a name partner and brought his international reputation to its newly established New York office. With a presence in the world’s financial capitals of New York and London, at the heart of political and regulatory leadership in Washington, DC, throughout the important international energy and trade centers of Texas, and in the rapidly expanding economy of Kazakhstan, Bracewell is strategically positioned to serve the commercial law needs of its worldwide client base.

Symbolizing this client service effectiveness, Bracewell received high praise in 2006 from The Survey of Client Service Performance for Law Firms: The BTI Client Service A-Team. Among the firm’s strengths cited in the survey were the ability to understand the client's business, advise on business issues, coordinate national resources and international capability, and offer wide-ranging services. Throughout the United States and around the world, Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, and leading government and public entities depend on Bracewell & Giuliani for practical solutions and creative advice spanning law, business and public policy.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE

Energy: Bracewell & Giuliani and the international oil and gas industry have grown together since 1945. Bracewell handles matters related to corporate finance and restructuring, federal and state government regulations, tax, environment, corporate governance, litigation, and strategic communications. The firm represents operators and suppliers in the deregulated U.S. electric energy industry. Its lawyers represent clients engaged in upstream and downstream energy transactions across the U.S. as well as in Europe, the North and Caspian Sea Regions and Latin America, and provide commentary and insight on the global energy industry on their Energy Legal Blog at www.energylegalblog.com.

Bracewell's regulatory attorneys bring extensive experience in the development of gas pipeline, electric transmission infrastructure projects and telecommunications. Among this group are former top officials with FERC as well as former top administrators with Texas agencies that regulate public utilities and oil and gas industries.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_sc/global_warming_states
It's unfair to pin all the blame on the coal-using states, said Washington lawyer Jeffrey Holmstead, who as an attorney at Bracewell Giuliani represents coal-intensive utilities and refineries. Holmstead is the former Bush administration air pollution regulator who ruled that carbon dioxide was not a pollutant, a decision that was overturned recently by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Coal-fired generation is the most economical, least expensive way to produce power almost anywhere in the world," he said. He argued that outlawing such plants would have little overall impact globally; however, the U.S. has long been the leading global source of carbon emissions.

Instead of trying to wean themselves from coal, Texas government officials went out of their way to encourage the state's biggest utility, TXU Corp., to plan for 11 new coal-burning power plants that would have produced even more carbon dioxide. The strategy collapsed when an investor group buying TXU cut a deal with environmentalists to drop plans to build most of the coal plants.