The Daily Background
| Nice move, Apple
by Arlen Parsa
Voting with their feet:
Apple has become the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce over climate policy.
“We strongly object to the chamber’s recent comments opposing the E.P.A.’s effort to limit greenhouse gases,” wrote Catherine A. Novelli, the vice president of worldwide government affairs at Apple, in a letter dated today and addressed to Thomas J. Donohue, president and chief executive of the chamber. Click here to read the letter.
“Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us in this effort,” Ms. Novelli continued.
Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM Resources, Exelon and Nike have also rebuked the Chamber over its climate policy recently. One has to wonder if other smaller companies are quitting over this too, we’re just not hearing about it.
