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The US Chamber's Chronic Reliance on Biased Policy Analysis

November 19, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming

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ACCF, heritagefoundation, NAM, nationalassociationofmanufacturers, uschamberofcommerce

The US Chamber's recently exposed interest in commissioning a study to put health reform in a bad light isn't the first time the federation has shown its willingness to trumpet questionable analyses about proposals it doesn't like. Heck, the US...continued

NAM Quintuples Lobbying Budget for 3rd Quarter

October 20, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming

Tags:
ACCF, climate, globalwarming, NAM, smears, uschamberofcommerce

The National Association of Manufacturers, another powerful association representing narrowly focused interests, ramped up its lobbying during the 3rd quarter by more than 500%. NAM's lobbying expenditures went from $960,000 during the first quarter of 2009 to $1,050,000 for the...continued

ACCCE: the American Chamber of Connected Coal Executives

October 15, 2009

Posted by Pete Altman in Solving Global Warming

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ACCCE, ACCF, alcoa, alstom, archcoal, bad09, BNSF, consol, CSX, donblankenship, duke, EEI, koch, massey, norfolksouthern, peabody, southerncompany, unionpacific, uschamberofcommerce

What with all the companies bailing out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its extremist views on climate legislation and clean energy jobs - and new pressure mounting for even more defections - we'd almost forgotten about the implosion...continued

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Pete Altman
Climate Campaign Director
Washington, D.C.
As Climate Campaign Director for NRDC, my job involves finding ways to help move the...
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