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Duke’s Jim Rogers leaves Chamber of Commerce Board

April 20, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Update: Spokesmen for Duke and the Chamber have informed the Wonk Room that Jim Rogers stepped down from the board only because he had served three consecutive two-year terms, and was required by the bylaws to cycle off. According to the Chamber, Rogers will rejoin the board in June. Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, a critic of the US... [read more]

Obama Administration Courts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Support Kerry-Graham-Lieberman

April 19, 2010 by Rebecca Lutzy
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As the April 26th release date of the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman "American Power Act" nears, the Obama Administration has been increasingly vocal about its support and intention to work with all sides to get the bill passed this year.  It will be a heavy lift, and the Administration has been moving forward to secure support while the... [read more]

NYT: US Chamber has not expressed support for any proposals to cap emissions

November 19, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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When we last left the Chamber of Commerce, Apple was leaving over their ‘frustrating’ global warming denialism.  NRDC’s Pete Altman has the latest on the incredible shrinking Chamber in a piece first published here. John Broder has an illuminating story in today’s New York Times “Storm Over the Chamber” discussing the US Chamber... [read more]

Chamber of Commerce climate story is a hoax

October 19, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Pranksters create turmoil at National Press Club The Washington Post reports that a press conference held at the National Press Club today (Oct 19) purporting to be a statement by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reversing its position on climate change is a hoax. Environmental activists held a hoax press conference Monday morning,... [read more]

Calls on Toyota to leave the Chamber

October 18, 2009 by A Siegel
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Pressure is mounting, from many sides, on the US Chamber of Commerce, which has been actively fighting moving forward with sensible climate legislation. The Chamber’s position is so severe that, in fact, multiple businesses (such as PG&E) have left the chamber, others have stepped down the board with public statements distancing... [read more]

The Chamber claims its “Board of Directors is the principal governing and policymaking body.” Nike says that’s false, and American Enterprise Institute agrees

October 7, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Memo to media:  The ever-shrinking Chamber of Commerce is not “the voice of business.”  Indeed, we now know that besides being anti-scientific, it is anti-democratic, not even bothering to consult with its own Board of Directors on its own climate policy — in direct contradiction to its stated policy. Greenwire (subs. req’d)... [read more]

Ringside seat on the fight to steer the Chamber of Commerce`s climate bus

October 7, 2009 by TokyoTom
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On the heels of my post about Apple leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, here are a few more links and excerpts for eager readers (who have been spared a longer post that vanished into the ether as pixie dust crashed Mozilla and my prior unsaved draft) (emphasis added). 1.  The Chamber`s opaque policy-making mechanism on climate,... [read more]

The U.S. Chamber’s climate blunders

October 6, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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So now America’s biggest business lobby and late-night comic David Letterman have something in common: They have really, really embarrassed themselves. Of course, there are significant differences between Letterman’s womanizing and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s backward-looking opposition to climate-change legislation, which is causing... [read more]

Now Apple Computer leaves! One-track "King Coal" interests insist on steering the US Chamber of Commerce onto climate shoals

October 6, 2009 by TokyoTom
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The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer has quit the US Chamber of Commerce. Apple`s departure, announced  on... [read more]