Reuters: Rift at U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate change

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http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE58S5XH20090929

Rift at U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate change

Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:24pm EDT

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The fight over climate change has spread to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where prominent members of the American big-business lobby -- including Nike, Johnson & Johnson and Exelon -- are publicly disputing the group's stance on global warming legislation.

The most recent critic, Exelon Corp, announced on Monday it would not renew its membership in the chamber. The decision by the largest nuclear operator in the United States followed moves by California utility PG&E Corp and New Mexico-based PNM Resources Inc in the last week.

Sportswear giant Nike Inc stopped short of leaving but chided the chamber in a statement circulated on September 22 that criticized its recent challenge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions as pollution.

Johnson & Johnson, the world's largest healthcare company by market value, criticized the chamber earlier this year for failing to "reflect the full range of views" of its members on climate change.

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