R.W. BECK ENCOURAGES PREPARATION FOR KYOTO PROTOCOL.

Since the Kyoto Protocol, which went into effect recently and mandates 35 industrialized countries reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases, R. W. Beck, Inc., management consulting and engineering firm, encourages utilities to take appropriate, proactive measures.

Although the requirements are different for each country and the U.S. -- the world's leader in greenhouse gas emissions -- is not a part of the agreement, it requires participating nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide to a certain percentage below 1990 levels by 2012. ...