The Obama administration’s faltering efforts to pass climate change legislation suffered another blow on Tuesday when BP and ConocoPhillips abruptly pulled out of the leading business group lobbying for curbs on US greenhouse gas emissions. By withdrawing from the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), the oil groups, together with Caterpillar, the heavy machinery company, signalled that they would take a more focused approach to the issue by pushing for specific policies that would benefit them, rather than the principle of reducing emissions…BP and Conoco on Tuesday said the proposed energy legislation that has stalled in the Congress would impose an unfair burden on the oil industry…The Obama administration has instead increasingly turned to regulation to impose limits on carbon emissions.…Daniel Weiss, a climate change analyst at the Center for American Progress…said the companies’ were now more interested in lobbying for policies that affected them directly. [also refers to AES, Alstom, Honeywell, Shell]