A new report lays out the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s lengthy history of climate denial and lobbying against climate policy, casting doubt on its latest effort to be seen as climate friendly. The report, released Tuesday by Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab, used publicly available internal documents from the … [continued]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the most powerful trade organization in the world. It spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to influence the actions of government, and prides itself on its many members. It advocates for what it considers to be pro-business policies. But does the Chamber always represent the interest of all its members?
A recent poll said 63 percent of Americans support renewable energy investment… in theory. But, in practice, Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) opposition to new energy infrastructure prevents about 45 percent of renewable energy proposals from being built across the country, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Some of the top (or totally depressing) cleantech and dirty tech political news of the week….
The Department of Energy has just rolled out a new ten-year plan aimed at making cost-competitive solar and wind power a reality. The initiative includes $27 million for nine solar tech projects, and up to $50.5 million to support offshore wind development. It can’t be a coincidence that the announcement … [continued]
Parents: you might want to check what kind of polluter-paid propaganda your kids are being exposed to in school, as part of their science curriculum. The Chamber of Commerce has now joined Exxon itself in supplying “Energy” education textbooks for middle school children. The Chamber is distributing a teaching guide … [continued]
Duke Energy of North Carolina is a diversified electric company that that still relies on fossil fuel operations, but the industry giant is also embracing sustainable energy (perhaps egged on by another sustainability-minded utility operating in the Southeast, Progress Energy). Duke is into wind power in Wyoming, and last year … [continued]
[social_buttons] Nike, Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and other major international companies have opposed the US Chamber of Commerce’s negative stance on climate and clean energy legislation in the past year (as well as the hundreds of millions of dollars it is spending on lobbying against such legislation). Now, electronics retail … [continued]
An epic battle has been brewing over climate change in the world of commerce, and things just got a lot more epic-er. Global giant Microsoft has become the latest corporate leader to challenge the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change. Talking Points Memo reports that Microsoft … [continued]
There they go again: just one day before Nike, Starbucks, and a slew of clean energy companies are uniting with labor leaders to launch the Race for American Jobs in support of green jobs related to climate and clean energy policies, environmentalleader.com reports that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has … [continued]
