{"id":580017,"date":"2010-05-26T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T00:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2010-05-26T20:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T00:21:58","slug":"6000-u-s-companies-support-climate-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580017","title":{"rendered":"6,000 U.S. Companies Support Climate Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10267\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/26\/6000-u-s-companies-support-climate-legislation\/6000-companies-support-climate-legislation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10267\" title=\"6000 companies support climate legislation\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/6000-companies-support-climate-legislation.jpg\" alt=\"A new survey estimates that 6,000 U.S. businesses support energy and climate legislation\" width=\"499\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a>They employ about 3.5 million workers and produced about $3.5 trillion in revenue last year, they include 21 Fortune 100 companies, and all 6,000 of them support <a title=\"greenbiz.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/news\/2010\/05\/24\/us-corporate-support-climate-laws-tops-6k-firms?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Greenbuzz+(GreenBiz+Feed)#ixzz0ouirhJjC\" >energy and climate legislation<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re talking about the number of U.S. businesses that have joined coalitions and initiatives in support of federal legislation to improve energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The estimate of 6,000 was put together by a group called <a title=\"ABCE website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbusinessforcleanenergy.org\/en\" >American Businesses for Clean Energy<\/a>, which culled membership lists from seven organizations including <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/02\/15\/chamber-of-commerce-says-court-should-put-the-hammer-down-on-epas-new-greenhouse-gas-ruling\/\" >We Can Lead<\/a>, which kicked off a major initiative this spring to lobby Congress for more green jobs.\u00a0 John Deere, Target, Boeing, Gap, General Electric, and <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/21\/ibm-and-columbia-university-team-up-in-green-jobs-initiative\/\" >IBM<\/a> are just a few of the economic powerhouses supporting federal action, and they&#8217;ve got plenty of company overseas, too.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/26\/6000-u-s-companies-support-climate-legislation\/#more-10266\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They employ about 3.5 million workers and produced about $3.5 trillion in revenue last year, they include 21 Fortune 100 companies, and all 6,000 of them support energy and climate legislation.\u00a0 We&#8217;re talking about the number of U.S. businesses that have joined coalitions and initiatives in support of federal legislation to improve energy efficiency and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580017","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\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}