{"id":173989,"date":"2010-01-13T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:34:48","slug":"u-s-chamber-of-commerce%e2%80%99s-tom-donahue-now-claims-renewable-energy-legislation-kill-jobs-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/173989","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Tom Donahue Now Claims Renewable Energy Legislation Kill Jobs [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Tom Donahue, remember him? He’s the controversial President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose opposition to cap-and-trade lead to a mass exodus of key and powerful members, including Pacific Gas and Electric and Exelon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donahue is stubborn. In a speech<\/a> yesterday, outlining the Chamber’s 2010 political strategy, he said that the various renewable energy legislation<\/a> making their way through the Senate would actually eliminate jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donahue said:<\/p>\n

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We’ll also support strong climate change policy, both domestic legislation and a global agreement.\u00a0 But the bill passed by the House last year would tie economic activity in knots and eliminate jobs from one end of the country to another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch:<\/p>\n

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Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog in Washington, could not let these latest claim pass without a rebuttal.<\/p>\n

And so in an effective fact check<\/a>, Media Matters — citing a recent study from the University of California\u00a0Berkeley — found that pollution reduction and energy efficiency legislation will actually create up to 1.9 million jobs and would add $111 billion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. It also notes that every state will gain jobs from investment in clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n

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Tom Donahue, remember him? He’s the controversial President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose opposition to cap-and-trade lead to a mass exodus of key and powerful members, including Pacific Gas and Electric and Exelon. Donahue is stubborn. In a speech yesterday, outlining the Chamber’s 2010 political strategy, he said that the various renewable energy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}