Several leading energy and manufacturing firms have joined with a prominent environmental think tank to develop the United States' first comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Shell Oil, British Petroleum, Cinergy Corp., Intel, the aluminium producer Alcan Inc., and others have endorsed the "Agenda for Climate Action" issued by the Virginia-based Pew Centre on Climate Change...The report calls for a combination of economy-wide mandatory emissions cuts, technology development, scientific research, alternative energy production, and adaptation. It makes 15 specific recommendations that can be implemented right away...