Apple quits the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its ‘frustrating’ global warming denialism.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/05/apple-quits-chamber/

There has recently been a “business backlash” against the Chamber of Commerce over its refusal to accept the science of global warming and lobbying against climate change legislation. The New York Times reports today that the latest company to join this backlash is Apple, which wrote in a letter to the Chamber that it has been “frustrating” that the business federation has been fighting efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions:

“We strongly object to the chamber’s recent comments opposing the E.P.A.’s effort to limit greenhouse gases,” wrote Catherine A. Novelli, the vice-president of worldwide government affairs at Apple, in a letter dated today and addressed to Thomas J. Donohue, president and chief executive of the chamber. Click here to read the letter.

“Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us in this effort,” Ms. Novelli continued.

Apple’s resignation was effective immediately, the letter said. The move comes a few weeks after Apple expanded the environmental disclosures on its products.

Apple joins Pacific Gas & Energy, Public Service Company of New Mexico, and Exelon in an ever-growing list of companies who are leaving the Chamber over its ideological opposition to any serious action over climate change.


Apple Resigns From Chamber Over Climate
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/apple-resignes-from-chamber-over-climate/


Business Backlash Against Deniers
http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2009/10/pr20091001

The ‘Voice Of Business’ Calls For ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ On Science Of Climate Change
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/08/25/chamber-scopes-climate-trial/

They're realizing that many customers are willing to pay more for a sustainable future.

They have come out sort-of on our side on this one

Hmm, that is a headscratcher.

Most of their X-level folks are Euro - and they are just basing this on what happened home

Of course, we here have too many Fundy-Evangie Freaks who don't believe in gravity...

Googling "Chevron Chamber of Commerce" and coming up empty.

They are a major electricity utility. Maybe that's what you're thinking of....

:woohoo:

...they are not the first ones to take this step, and hopefully they will not be the last to do it.

It's about time that businesses started taking a second look at things like this. There is no reason whatsoever that a business must take the most regressive position possible, or must toe the line with the neanderthals.

Why don't the members who disagree with the idealogical opposition, CHANGE the opposition? Is it not a better position to change them from within?

I would prefer to see a statement like, "We are committed to bringing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's policies and practices into alignment with a more responsible viewpoint, and to that end, we will be actively campaigning to change the leadership of the Chamber."

I just don't see how we win by walking away.

and they probably decided it was too late for discussion.

Nike - Exelon - Apple - together they're making waves.

Say what you will about their labor issues - if all corporations used Apple or Starbucks as a model the world would be a better place.

The Chambers of Commerce across the globe are the personification of evil - the scum of the earth.