{"id":218226,"date":"2009-11-19T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=20596"},"modified":"2009-11-19T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T21:00:47","slug":"levi-strauss-company-mohawk-fine-papers-pacific-gas-electric-pnm-resources-exelon-and-apple-resign-from-us-chamber-of-commerce-because-chamber-is-opposed-to-climate-legislation-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218226","title":{"rendered":"Levi Strauss &amp; Company, Mohawk Fine Papers, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric, PNM Resources, Exelon, and Apple Resign from US Chamber of Commerce Because Chamber is Opposed to Climate Legislation 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20592\" title=\"150px-PGE_svg.svg\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/150px-PGE_svg.svg.png\" alt=\"150px-PGE_svg.svg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20595\" title=\"PNMbrand\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/PNMbrand.gif\" alt=\"PNMbrand\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20594\" title=\"Exelon_Corp_Logo_1\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Exelon_Corp_Logo_1.jpg\" alt=\"Exelon_Corp_Logo_1\" width=\"232\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20593\" title=\"Apple-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Apple-logo.png\" alt=\"Apple-logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20980\" title=\"mohawkfinepaperlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mohawkfinepaperlogo.jpg\" alt=\"mohawkfinepaperlogo\" width=\"301\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21396\" title=\"800px-Levis_logo_ver\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/800px-Levis_logo_ver-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Levis_logo_ver\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>2009Nov19: <\/strong>Levi Strauss &amp; Company resigns from the United States Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (New York Times).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009Oct20:<\/strong> Mohawk Fine Papers resigns from the United States Chamber of Commerce, because the chamber opposes the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions (WCAX.com).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009Oct5: <\/strong>Pacific Gas &amp; 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\u2019s vice president of worldwide government affairs, in a letter to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s president: &#8220;We strongly object to the chamber&#8217;s recent comments opposing the EPA&#8217;s effort to limit greenhouse gases&#8230;Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us in this effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/19\/business\/energy-environment\/19CHAMBER.html\" >http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/19\/business\/energy-environment\/19CHAMBER.html<\/a>; New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/05\/apple-resignes-from-chamber-over-climate\/\" >http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/05\/apple-resignes-from-chamber-over-climate\/<\/a>; WCAX.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11346386\" >http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11346386<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/chamber-pge-letter092209.pdf\" >Read the letter<\/a> [PDF] that PG&amp;E chairman and CEO Peter Darbee sent to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s president<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/apple-chamber.pdf\" >Read the letter<\/a> [PDF] that Catherine Novelli, Apple\u2019s vice president of worldwide government affairs, sent to Thomas Donahue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s president<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Description:<\/strong> Levi Strauss &amp; Company logo. Image Location: Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Levis_logo_ver.jpg\" >http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Levis_logo_ver.jpg<\/a>; Pacific Gas and Electric Company logo. Image Location: Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pge_svg.svg\" >http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pge_svg.svg<\/a>; PNM logo. Image Location: Brands of the World <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandsoftheworld.com\/history\/2001\/05\/26350.html\" >http:\/\/www.brandsoftheworld.com\/history\/2001\/05\/26350.html<\/a>; Exelon logo. Image Location: Your Industry News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourindustrynews.com\/upload_images\/Exelon_Corp_Logo_1.jpg\" >http:\/\/www.yourindustrynews.com\/upload_images\/Exelon_Corp_Logo_1.jpg<\/a>; Apple logo. Image Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Apple-logo.png\" >http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Apple-logo.png<\/a>; Mohawk Fine Paper logo. Image Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mohawkpaper.com\/corporate\" >http:\/\/www.mohawkpaper.com\/corporate<\/a> Permission to use Images: These are logos from an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and\/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on Interlinked Challenges, hosted on servers in the United States by Michigan State University, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009Nov19: Levi Strauss &amp; 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 &amp; Electric, PNM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218226","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=218226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}