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What does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have to do with Climate Change?
March 9, 2011 1:50 AM

Money and Climate Change -- so far they haven't mixed well. In fact, the U.S. Chamber of Congress has been using its vast amount of money to fight attempts to address Climate Change. As 350.org says:

In the last year for which statistics are available, the US Chamber spent five times as much money lobbying as the next highest spender -- Exxon Mobil. They spent more money on political campaigning than the Republican and Democratic national committees. And they used all that corporate cash to make sure that the planet kept warming, opposing almost every measure that might have made even a small difference. Not to worry, they told the EPA: when the earth warmed, humans could "adapt their physiologies."

They have now begun a new campaign to fight all this corporate cash, and the effort is focused on recruiting local businesses:

The Chamber is controlled by Big Polluters, poisons politics with its dirty money and opposes every single effort to curb climate pollution.

Here's the plan: If we can get thousands of small businesses across the country to declare that "The US Chamber Doesn't Speak for me," we can get local and state chambers of commerce to do the same. By compiling thousands of declarations, we'll build a critical mass representing the true voice of business, and fight back against the millions of dollars of money pollution that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pumping into Washington DC.

Get involved by visiting their site and start asking the question, "What does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have to do with Climate Change?

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