2009Nov19: Levi Strauss & Company resigns from the United States Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (New York Times).
2009Oct20: Mohawk Fine Papers resigns from the United States Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (WCAX.com).
2009Oct5: Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM Resources, Exelon, and Apple resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (New York Times. 2009). Catherine Novelli, Apple’s vice president of worldwide government affairs, in a letter to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s president: “We strongly object to the chamber’s recent comments opposing the EPA’s effort to limit greenhouse gases…Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us in this effort.”
Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/business/energy-environment/19CHAMBER.html; New York Times http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/apple-resignes-from-chamber-over-climate/; WCAX.com http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11346386
Read the letter [PDF] that PG&E chairman and CEO Peter Darbee sent to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s president
Read the letter [PDF] that Catherine Novelli, Apple’s vice president of worldwide government affairs, sent to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s president
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