Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, August 13, 1993                   TAG: 9308130121
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio - American Electric Power Co., Columbus, Ohio, parent of Appalachian Power Co. and one of the nation's largest coal-burning utilities, said Thursday it has agreed to join the U.S. Department of Energy in efforts to establish voluntary programs to limit emissions of greenhouse gases.

AEP Chairman E. Linn Draper Jr., said in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary on Thursday that AEP will cooperate with her office, other utilities and the Edison Electric Institute EEI to formulate a voluntary framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Some scientists think increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and other such gases in the atmosphere affect the global climate.

- Staff report

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\ R. Frazier, a Roanoke Valley company that recycles used electronic equipment, has hired Lin Chaff Public Relations & Advertising of Roanoke to promote the company nationally and internationally.

\ Cox Enterprises Inc., Atlanta parent of Cox Cable Roanoke, said Thursday it has acquired 12.5 percent of Agora-Gazeta of Warsaw, which publishes Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily newspaper, Terms were not disclosed. Cox's newspaper division publishes 17 daily newspapers in the United States.

\ A thinner, transparent polyurethane condom designed to allow better sexual sensation than latex condoms is to go on sale in the United States next year. The new condom also can be used with oil-based lubricants, such as petroleum jelly and mineral oil, that weaken latex condoms, said British-based London International Group PLC.