NRG, a Power Company Leaning Green, Faces Activist Challenge
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Barry Smitherman in 2013, when he was chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, which largely regulates the oil and gas industry. Now on the board of the energy giant NRG, he has called global warming a hoax. CreditTodd Wiseman for The Texas Tribune
Over the years, NRG, a leading independent power producer whose fleet once depended heavily on coal, has made big bets on low-carbon energy technologies and publicized its embrace of sustainability as essential to its future.
It pursued developing renewable energy for customers large and small and set aggressive goals to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide — 50 percent by 2030, and 90 percent by 2050.
But now, the company finds its strategy challenged from within…
NRG, a Power Company Leaning Green, Faces Activist Challenge
