Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke recently announced with great fanfare that his utility would be zeroing-out CO2 emissions by 2050. We ask Fowke whether this is really the type of announcement the CEO of a publicly-owned company should really be making.
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Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke recently announced with great fanfare that his utility would be zeroing-out CO2 emissions by 2050. We ask Fowke whether this is really the type of announcement the CEO of a publicly-owned company should really be making.