Defiant (US) Chamber (of Commerce) Chief Says ‘Bring ’Em On’

October 8, 2009, 1:43 pm

Defiant Chamber Chief Says ‘Bring ’Em On’

By John M. Broder AND Kate Galbraith

The United States Chamber of Commerce, under fire for its http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/apple-resignes-from-chamber-over-climate/">vocal opposition to climate change regulation, says that the vast majority of its members support its position.

“We’re not changing where we are,” Thomas Donohue, the group’s president and chief executive, told a small group of reporters in Washington this morning. “We’ve thought long and hard about what is important here, and we’re not going anywhere.”

He said that the chamber was sorry for the “Scopes monkey trial” analogy http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/08/25/us-chamber-wants-scopes-trial-on-climate-change/">raised by a chamber representative this summer in conversations with the media — in which the representative, William Kovacs, vowed to put climate change regulation on trial, similar to the 1920s showdown between creationists and evolutionists.

However, the chamber would still like a full public hearing on the science behind the proposed endangerment finding of the Environmental Protection Agency, by which the agency aims to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as it does other forms of pollution.

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