It's this bad: So many members could be persuaded to pull out of the US Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers that the two old-line protectors of business could tank. And also be known as very Non-Green, which is bad for branding.
In Politico, which doesn't miss a trick inside the beltway, Lisa Lerer reports:
"Environmentalists are ratcheting up the pressure on General Electric, Caterpillar and Nike to follow the example of several large utilities and quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce [and the National Association of Manufacturers] to protest its stance against climate change legislation."
Already, Exelon Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric and PNM Resources have left the US Chamber, which is the world's largest business federation. Both it and the NAM are perceived as opposing aggressively and too cleverly by half climate change legislation. Regarding the latter, what really irks environmentalists is, explains Lerer, the Chamber's call to have a type of Scopes Monkey trial regarding the science of climate change.
Given the influence and power of the greens, I wouldn't have introduced that analogy. Them are fighting words.
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