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- 100 Montana Businesses Support Strong Climate and Energy Legislation (September 25, 2009)
- 18 million tons of contaminated coal waste from new coal plants (March 12, 2009)
- 2008 – Summer of No Love for Global Warming Deniers? (September 4, 2008)
- 2009 New Year's Resolutions to help big coal (January 6, 2009)
- A Chamber Divided: Companies Balk at the U.S. Chamber's Climate Policy (May 5, 2009)
- A Rich Heritage of Hot Air About Green Jobs (May 5, 2009)
- A State of The Union Call For Climate Action? (February 20, 2009)
- ACCCE Adds Coal to "Back to School" Supplies List - Because its Cheap! (September 8, 2009)
- ACCCE Forges Claim of Vet Groups Support for Coal (November 10, 2009)
- ACCCE Hired Firm That Forged Opposition Letters (August 3, 2009)
- ACCCE member Peabody Energy's Illegal Wastes Tied to Severe Water Contamination (September 13, 2009)
- ACCCE's Newest Forgery and Latest Loss (September 11, 2009)
- ACCCE: the American Chamber of Connected Coal Executives (October 15, 2009)
- ACES Puts US and World On Safer Temperature Path (June 26, 2009)
- ACES Will Help Create More Jobs and Opportunities for Low-Income Families (June 26, 2009)
- AMERICANS FOR the PROSPERITY of Koch Industries (July 25, 2008)
- After the election: What clean energy can do for America (November 3, 2008)
- American Rights at Work Launches "Not My Chamber" Campaign (November 20, 2009)
- Americans Save on Fuel Bills Under ACES (June 26, 2009)
- Americans for Prosperity: Astroturf.Org (August 6, 2009)
- Amidst forgery scandal, ACCCE still finds time to argue that Kentucky should be more flat (August 5, 2009)
- Another Firm Bails on the US Chamber's Extreme Climate Stance (October 20, 2009)
- Another response to the "Danish" Wind Study (September 16, 2009)
- Apple Resigns from US Chamber over Climate (October 5, 2009)
- Are Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue's Ties to Union Pacific Railroading the Companies that Support Climate Policy? (September 15, 2009)
- Aspen Chamber of Commerce Opposes US Chamber's Climate Stance (November 30, 2009)
- Behind the Wing-Nut Attacks on Clean Energy (July 30, 2009)
- Big Coal: No Corporate Social Responsibility for us, please (October 15, 2008)
- Broad and diverse support for Waxman-Markey's American Clean Energy and Security Act (May 19, 2009)
- Carrie Meets the OMB: the Big Climate Attack That Fizzled (May 13, 2009)
- Caught on Tape: The Big Lies of Big Coal (December 11, 2008)
- Chamber "Softens Stance" on Call for Globalization of Congress' Power (October 8, 2009)
- Chamber Chief Donohue: The Environmentalists Did It (October 8, 2009)
- Chamber Membership Falls by 2.7 Million Due to ... Scrutiny (October 14, 2009)
- Chamber of Denial (September 29, 2009)
- Chamber to Apple: Go Rot (October 6, 2009)
- Cisco Systems: The Chamber Doesn't Represent this Company on Climate (October 29, 2009)
- Clean Energy Common Sense - the Little Book about Global Warming, What We Can Do About It, and Why We Should (November 13, 2009)
- Clean Energy Jobs and Climate Legislation (October 28, 2009)
- Clean Energy is the Boost We Need (December 3, 2009)
- Clean energy job profile: hybrid-battery maker in Ohio (May 19, 2009)
- Climate "Scopes" Trial: The Chamber Makes A Monkey Of Itself (August 25, 2009)
- Climate Bill Scams: Exposing Bonner’s Blame-the-Temp Forgery Lie (July 31, 2009)
- Climate Bill: Its Just Good Business (January 21, 2010)
- Climate Controversy Damages Chamber's Reputation (October 8, 2009)
- Climate Denier Numero Uno to the Rescue of the US Chamber! (October 21, 2009)
- Climate Forgeries and Other Lies: They've Done It Before...and Are Doing it Again! (August 6, 2009)
- Climate Math: How the "Chicken Littles" Cook the Numbers (May 19, 2009)
- Climate Tops White House, CEO Agendas (January 21, 2009)
- Climate legislation will reduce budget deficit: CBO (December 17, 2009)
- Coal Coalition: We Spent $11 Million on Lobbying. No, Wait A Minute... (July 21, 2009)
- Coal PR: Slap More Lipstick on that Pig (January 30, 2009)
- Coal ash spill upriver of Washington DC delivers message in new way (March 10, 2009)
- Coal is dirty and dangerous (November 20, 2008)
- Companies Launch New Initiative to Show Broad Business Support for Climate Legislation (November 6, 2009)
- Dating and Demonstrating: New Astroturf Tactic? (August 28, 2009)
- Debunking the “Spanish Jobs Study”: 9 Inconvenient Truths You Should Know About (September 23, 2009)
- Debunking the “light switch tax” hoax (April 1, 2009)
- Decoding the US Chamber's Climate Position (November 9, 2009)
- Dirty Energy Politics in Statehouses (March 18, 2009)
- Don Blankenship: YouTube Star (December 30, 2008)
- Donohue Will Stay the Course; Business Week Says Its Costing Him Credibility and Clout (October 8, 2009)
- Dow and PEPCO Disagree with US Chamber Climate Stance, Too (October 26, 2009)
- Duke Departs Coal Coalition, Alcoa Has Said Adios to ACCCE As Well (September 2, 2009)
- Duke Energy Cut Its Payments to the US Chamber Over Climate (November 19, 2009)
- Energy interests spend over $150 million on lobbying (July 29, 2009)
- Exelon Announces It is Leaving US Chamber of Commerce (September 28, 2009)
- First the Chamber, Now NAM -– the Walls Begin to Crack (May 10, 2009)
- Further Reading of Stolen Emails Reveals Scientists Searching for the Truth (December 10, 2009)
- GE: The US Chamber Does Not Speak for Us on Climate (September 30, 2009)
- Global warming solutions: Just the stimulation we need (October 30, 2008)
- Green Paychecks (October 6, 2008)
- Green and Blue Agree: Congress Should Pass Climate Legislation Now! (March 27, 2009)
- Healthy economic growth under cap and trade, per detractors (April 8, 2009)
- Heritage Foundation Fools Itself on Carbon Taxes (April 2, 2009)
- Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor (January 9, 2009)
- How to Melt Glaciers and Influence People: API and ACCCE Spend the Big Bucks (November 18, 2009)
- Imported Lies: Debunking the Spanish Green Jobs Smear (April 16, 2009)
- Is the US Chamber Changing its Tune, or Just its Tone? (November 4, 2009)
- Is the US Chamber Guilty of Member-Inflating? (October 13, 2009)
- Joe Lucas and ACCCE: Wiping away coal's soot boogers (December 12, 2008)
- Lunatic Fringe Watch: Wing Nuts Unleashed on ACES Climate Bill (July 13, 2009)
- Making Sense of the Stolen Climate Emails (December 14, 2009)
- Melting Climategate: The Vindication of Scientist Michael Mann (February 3, 2010)
- Microsoft: The Chamber Doesn't Speak for Us on Climate (October 7, 2009)
- Minnesota Businesses: The US Chamber Doesn't Speak for Us (October 15, 2009)
- More Business Support for Climate Legislation (March 18, 2010)
- More Questions about the US Chamber's Membership Number Claim (October 22, 2009)
- NAM Quintuples Lobbying Budget for 3rd Quarter (October 20, 2009)
- NBC's Brian Williams: Clean coal is "wishful thinking." (November 19, 2008)
- NRG Rejected US Chamber Membership Over "Extreme" Climate Position (October 26, 2009)
- NYT: US Chamber Has Not Expressed Support for Any Proposals to Cap Emissions (November 19, 2009)
- National Journal: Health Insurers Funded US Chamber Campaign Against Health Care Reform (January 12, 2010)
- New Climate Bill Forgery? Faking Broad Public Opposition (August 6, 2009)
- News Flash: More Jobs and Lower Energy Costs Good for Low-Income Americans (June 18, 2009)
- Newt's Cement Plant Story: Rock Solid? (April 29, 2009)
- Nike Resigns from Chamber Board (September 30, 2009)
- Obama Is Not The Spokesperson-In-Chief For Clean Coal (February 5, 2009)
- Obama and the Warming Political Climate (January 27, 2010)
- Other Voices: US Chamber Has "Sold its soul" and Donohue Should Resign (September 28, 2009)
- PG&E, Nike Fed Up With US Chamber (September 22, 2009)
- PNM Resources Quits US Chamber Board (September 23, 2009)
- PNM Resources To Sever Chamber Ties Altogether (September 24, 2009)
- Palin's Recipe for Baked Alaska (July 15, 2009)
- Phony Arch Coal Map Leads Members Astray (June 19, 2009)
- Poll Questions for the US Chamber (October 30, 2009)
- Post/ABC Poll Shows Oil- and Coal-Funded Astroturf Efforts to Kill Clean Energy Are Failing (August 28, 2009)
- Real People in America Support Clean Energy (September 11, 2009)
- Real workers with green jobs speak up (April 14, 2009)
- Real-life coal disaster pops coal industry pr bubble (December 23, 2008)
- Reason Prevails Over Stolen Emails (December 14, 2009)
- Right-Wing Climate Nuttiness Documented on YouTube (July 20, 2009)
- Rockin' Pittsburgh in Support of Clean Energy Jobs (September 30, 2009)
- Rogues' Gallery of Global Warming Appears before E&C Committee (April 22, 2009)
- San Francisco Chamber Pulls Out of US Chamber (October 16, 2009)
- Seattle Chamber of Commerce Distances Itself from US Chamber (November 23, 2009)
- Second-Hand Smoke and Mirrors (March 17, 2010)
- Sen. Durbin Questions U.S. Chamber Chief's Role on Corporate Boards (October 2, 2009)
- Shell: The US Chamber Does Not Speak for Us on Climate (October 15, 2009)
- Sleazy tactics and dirty money pollute the climate debate (July 31, 2009)
- Southern Company Lobbyists Form New Front Group: CEIP (October 21, 2009)
- Spain Rejects Calzada "Spanish Jobs" Study (May 20, 2009)
- Spanish Minister Smacks Down "Spanish Study" (May 5, 2009)
- St. Louis Dispatch to Senator Bond: We'll take those green jobs, thanks very much (April 29, 2009)
- Straight from PG&E: Irreconcilable Differences (September 22, 2009)
- Texas First to Rise to Gore Challenge (July 18, 2008)
- The Business Case for Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation (January 27, 2010)
- The Chamber and Climate Change Debacle: Ignoring the First Rule of Holes (October 16, 2009)
- The Danish Wind Study Spin that Blows (September 14, 2009)
- The Green Economy Keeps on Growing (October 20, 2008)
- The Green in the Stimulus is Creating Serious Clean Energy Jobs (March 19, 2009)
- The Men Behind the Curtain: Setting the US Chamber's Climate Policy (October 7, 2009)
- The Myth of Clean Coal: Rest in Peace (January 23, 2009)
- The Next Superheroes (Part II) - Millions of Them (September 9, 2008)
- The Next Superheroes: Carpenters. Electricians. Machinists. Welders. Truck drivers. (June 3, 2008)
- The Race for Clean Energy Jobs (February 18, 2010)
- The Treasury Memo: Classic Spin-Job by Clean Energy Opponents (September 16, 2009)
- The U.S. Chamber Split Grows Wider: Now Local Chambers Are Going Their Own Way (May 18, 2009)
- The U.S. Chamber of Chicken Littles (November 17, 2008)
- The US Chamber Needs to Get Its Story Straight (November 18, 2009)
- The US Chamber of Big Checks (November 23, 2009)
- The US Chamber's Chronic Reliance on Biased Policy Analysis (November 19, 2009)
- The US Chamber's Continuing Climate Credibility Crisis (October 13, 2009)
- Think-tank behind "Danish" Wind Study Tied to Polluter Funding (September 14, 2009)
- Tied to the Rails: US Chamber President Tom Donohue and Union Pacific (part II) (September 22, 2009)
- Tivos For The TVA: The Latest From The Clowns Who Brought Us Kingston (March 6, 2009)
- Toyota Distances Itself From US Chamber Climate Stance (October 13, 2009)
- U.S. Chamber in 2010 Offers Little in the Way of Moderation on Climate Legislation (January 12, 2010)
- US Chamber Calls for Global Powers for Congress (September 29, 2009)
- US Chamber Calls on Congress to Force Dirty Energy Projects Down Americans' Throats (April 16, 2009)
- US Chamber Flip-Flops – On Same Day! – On Climate Legislation (May 14, 2009)
- US Chamber Gun Admits GDP Would Double Under Climate Policy (February 13, 2009)
- US Chamber Posts Dumbest Poll Question Ever (October 30, 2009)
- US Chamber Quadruples Lobbying Activities; Sets Single-Quarter Record for Lobbying Congress (October 19, 2009)
- US Chamber Ramps Up Campaign Against Its Own Members’ Interests (June 11, 2009)
- US Chamber Repackages Old Position in New Wrapping (September 29, 2009)
- US Chamber Reveals Policy-Making Process. Sort of. (October 7, 2009)
- US Chamber of Contradictions (October 5, 2009)
- US Chamber's Influence and Credibility on the Decline (October 20, 2009)
- US Gov't Debunks "Spanish" Study Promoted by Big Oil Bus Tour (August 31, 2009)
- Update: NAACP Condemns Bonner's Dirty Tricks (July 31, 2009)
- Van Jones: Green Collar Minister for a Clean and Just Future (October 8, 2008)
- Vets Support (and install) Clean Energy (May 5, 2009)
- Wall Street Journal Covers the Water and Power Problem (March 26, 2009)
- Washington Post Assails Chamber's Honesty and Credibility (October 27, 2009)
- Waxman climate bill will switch on the green jobs (April 1, 2009)
- Who Makes the Decisions at the Chamber of Commerce? (October 6, 2009)
- Who Says U.S. Businesses are Pulling Back on a Climate Bill? (February 24, 2010)
- Who are these guys? Yet more polluter-funded front groups hit the climate scene (April 30, 2009)
- Why Are American Companies Leaving the Chamber Ad Campaign (October 7, 2009)
- Worst week ever for coal? (November 18, 2008)

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