"Obama Huddling With CEOs to Shore Up Support on Climate", 16 Oct 2015

President Barack Obama is bringing executives from five Fortune 500 companies to the White House on Monday in a bid to shore up business support for combating climate change. The roundtable discussion will include the chief executive officers of Johnson & Johnson, Intel Corp., Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co., Hershey Co., and PG&E Corp., as well as five other companies that act as suppliers to those corporations...The executives and Obama will discuss “carbon mitigation, sustainability and resiliency and how technologies are emerging to support and scale these efforts”...The White House has also rolled out a series of regulations designed to limit U.S. emissions in recent months. On Thursday, the administration proposed extending rules limiting the emissions of refrigerants called hydrofluorocarbons, which are thought to be "super" greenhouse gases because they trap substantially more heat than carbon dioxide. The administration also announced $15 million in new grants to help coal mining communities impacted by the shift to cleaner energies...