Taking Oil Industry Cue, Environmentalists Drew Emissions Blueprint

Meet The Real Masterminds Behind The EPA's Bold Climate Change Plan
FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. Colstrip is kind of plant called on by President Barack Obama's climate change plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the unanimous federal appeals court ruling, that upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's unprecedented regulations, aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The case comes to the court amid Obamaâs increasing use of his executive authority to act on environmental and other matters when Congress doesn't, or won't. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. Colstrip is kind of plant called on by President Barack Obama's climate change plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on the unanimous federal appeals court ruling, that upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's unprecedented regulations, aimed at reducing the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The case comes to the court amid Obamaâs increasing use of his executive authority to act on environmental and other matters when Congress doesn't, or won't. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

In November 2010, three combatants gathered in a sleek office here to build a carbon emissions policy that they hoped to sell to the Obama administration.

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