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Article

25 Aug 2009

Author:
Climate Progress [USA]

Memo to Alcoa, Kodak, IBM, Nike, Pepsi, Toyota et al.: Luddite U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks “the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” on global warming

Who ever could have imagined that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would publicly — and proudly — equate climate science with evolution and their denial with a belief in creationism? Time now for the major businesses on the Chamber’s board to speak up since many of them publicly claim to support strong climate action... Here are some of the members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce board who claim to “Support economy-wide reductions in CO2 emissions and/or federal cap-and-trade legislation”...: Alcoa, Caterpillar Inc., Deere & Company, Dow Chemical Company, Duke Energy, Eastman Kodak, Entergy, Fox Entertainment Group [part of News Corp.], IBM, Lockheed, Nike Inc., PepsiCo, PNM Resources, Rolls Royce North America Inc., Siemens Corporation, Toyota Motor North America Inc., Xerox