The new chair of the US Senate Budget Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse is using his position to fight for climate action.
critiquing the US Chamber of Commerce for siding with Big Oil and actively working to fracture productive and future-facing climate legislation. “Big Oil is still pulling the strings at the Chamber,” the editorial states.platform tracks and scores the detailed climate change policy engagement activities of over 350 of the world’s largest companies, along with over 150 key industry associations.
“Much has changed in Congress over the past decade — but the US Chamber of Commerce is still the number one political obstruction in the path of climate progress,” write Whitehouse and Weihl. “There’s now fresh evidence that the Chamber’s actions reflect a persistent pattern of opposing good climate policies, and that the most powerful trade association in the country is actively working against the interests of many of the companies it’s supposed to represent.
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