Anthropogenic Global Warming: Some First-Order Questions By Edward A. Reid Jr., Fire to Ice, Inc. Today, there’s growing sentiment among members of the U.S. Congress that it must do something to confront the possibility of catastrophic CO2-driven climate change. With this in mind, American corporations have begun taking steps to minimize the adverse financial impact of any actions Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might take to address anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – this despite the fact that there continues to be controversy within the scientific community over the degree to which anthropogenic carbon emissions are actually contributing to global warming.

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Tomorrow’s Bill Payment Solutions for Today’s Businesses Providing consumers with innovative services for more than 150 years, Western Union is an established leader in electronic and cash bill-payment solutions. We introduced our first consumer- to-consumer money transfer service in 1871 and began offering consumer-to-business bill payment services in 1989 with the introduction of the Western Union Quick Collect® service, providing consumers in the United States with convenient walk-in agent network locations where they can pay bills in cash.

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Utility Mergers and Acquisitions: Beating the Odds
Pattabi Seshadri, Boston Consulting Group

About Alcatel-Lucent   Alcatel-Lucent’s vision is to enrich people’s lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end users. As a leader in carrier and enterprise IP technologies; fixed, mobile and converged broadband access; applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at work, at home and on the move.

Customer Management in Deregulating Markets
Utilities facing deregulation and competition need customer management solutions that are open, scalable, and above all, flexible.

Building a Vision for the Future
The United States and the world are facing two preeminent energy challenges: the rising cost of energy and the impact of increasing energy use on the environment. As a regulated public utility and one of the largest energy delivery companies in the Mid-Atlantic region, Pepco Holdings Inc. (PHI) recognized that it was uniquely positioned to play a leadership role in helping meet both of these challenges.

Analyzing Substation Asset Health Information for Increased Reliability And Return on Investment   Asset Management, Substation Automation, AMI and Intelligent Grid Monitoring are common and growing investments for most utilities today. The foundation for effective execution of these initiatives is built upon the ability to efficiently collect, store, analyze and report information from the rapidly growing number of smart devices and business systems. Timely and automated access to this information is now more than ever helping drive the profitability and success of utilities. Most utilities have made significant investments in modern substation equipment but fail to continuously analyze and interpret the real-time health indicators of these assets. Continued investment in state-of-the-art operational assets will yield little return on investment unless the information can be harvested and interpreted in a meaningful way.

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Chapter 11: Life After Death
Recent rulings have helped to clarify the rights of the utility companies under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, but Chapter 11 is not a panacea.
The Utilities ProjectVolume 3, 4/1/2003