http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-defiant-over-federal-clean-air-rule-235911093.html
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Lawmakers defiant over federal clean air rule

By APRIL CASTRO | AP – 6 hrs ago

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A threat by one of the state's largest energy companies to shut down generators and layoff hundreds of workers over stricter pollution standards came one day after the EPA issued a letter assuring the company a plan could be worked out to help it comply with the standards.

The new rules are designed to significantly reduce smog and soot pollution by requiring 27 states, including Texas, to decrease smokestack emissions, mostly at coal-fired power plants.

But Luminant and other agencies insist it is logistically impossible to comply with the new regulation by January without decreasing production.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Luminant
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Luminant, formerly TXU Corp., is a Dallas-based energy company involved in electricity generation, distribution, and sales in Texas. In February 2007, TXU announced its acquisition by an investor group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group (registered under TPG Capital LP).^[2] In July 2007, TXU announced that its power generation and related businesses would now be assigned to the Luminant name. Both TXU and Luminant are now owned by Energy Future Holdings.^[3]
Energy Future Holdings is owned by a group of investors led by KKR and TPG, as well as global investment bank Goldman Sachs.^[4]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts_%26_Co.
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Lobbying

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts spent $540,000 for lobbying in the first half of 2007. Lobbying firms used were Covington & Burling, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, and OB-C Group. ^[7]

Personnel

Key executives: ^[8]

• Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
• George R. Roberts, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
• William J. Janetschek, Chief Financial Officer

Selected KKR Senior Advisors: ^[9]

• Edwin L. Artzt, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble
• George M.C. Fisher, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of both Eastman Kodak and Motorola
• Paul M. Hazen, Former Chief Executive Officer, Wells Fargo
• R. Clint Johnstone, Former Director and Chief Financial Officer, Bechtel Group, Inc.
• John M. Keane, Former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

Contact details

Ninth West 57th Street
Suite 4200
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-750-8300
Fax: 212-750-0003
Web: http://www.kkr.com/

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/kohlberg_kravis_roberts_and_co/index.html
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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/judge-widens-antitrust-suit-against-private-equity-firms/?ref=kohlbergkravisrobertsandco
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September 8, 2011, 9:27 pmPrivate Equity

Judge Widens Antitrust Suit Against Private Equity Firms

By PETER LATTMAN

J. Pat Carter/Associated PressJudge Edward F. Harrington of Federal District Court in Massachusetts.

A federal judge has greatly expanded the scope of an antitrust lawsuit against the world’s largest private equity firms, broadening the case to include some of the largest leveraged buyouts in history.
The four-year-old suit accuses 11 firms, including Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, of a huge, overarching conspiracy to rig the market for multibillion-dollar takeovers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/business/21views.html?_r=1&ref=kohlbergkravisrobertsandco
Excerpt:Joining the Crowd and Standing Apart

By JEFFREY GOLDFARB and ANTONY CURRIE

Published: June 20, 2011

Carlyle will soon join the crowd — but try to stand apart from it. The private equity firm is preparing to join its rivals Apollo, Blackstone and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts as a publicly listed company. Carlyle’s unique structure could be its best hope of arguing the tough case that profits from investing, or carried interest, as it is known in the industry, should be worth more than investors currently think.

Led by David M. Rubenstein, Carlyle has plenty to woo potential investors to its initial public offering. Assets under management have nearly doubled since 2007, among the fastest rates of expansion in the industry. Adding Alpinvest’s $43 billion will take Carlyle to $150 billion shortly. The Dutch fund-of-funds firm also brings a new line of business, the kind of diversification public

http://humanrobots.wordpress.com/tag/rick-perry-txu-corporation/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPG_Capital
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Notable Current and Former Employees

• Kevin Rollins - former President & CEO of Dell Computers
• Bernard Attali, former chairman of Air France and brother of Jacques Attali
• Vivek Paul, former Vice Chairman of Wipro Technologies and CEO of its global information technology, product engineering, and business process services segments
• Mary Ma ^[48] - Former CFO of Lenovo, and was listed in the top ten of the Fortune "50 Most Powerful Women" in 2005 and 2006.

http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/medicine/researcher.asp?id=achigijid
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ATTALI BERNARD
Department: Physiology-Pharmacology
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Sackler School of Medicine building , room 546
Tel:  (972)-3-6405116
(972)-3-6405571
Fax: (972)-3-6409113
Email: battali@post.tau.ac.il
Personal Website:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dell
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Ad boycott against Air America Radio

Dell refused to advertise on the progressive Air America Radio. In October 2006, around 90 companies, including Dell, told ABC Radio Networks that they did not want their ads to play on any radio stations that carried Air America Radio. ^{[4] [5] [6]}


http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
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