A coalition of over 100 student environmental action groups from universities across the country will send a letter Wednesday to 54 large firms that belong to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asking them to push back against the Chamber’s campaign to block President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, Yahoo News has learned.
A coalition of over 100 student environmental action groups from universities across the United States will send a letter Wednesday to 54 large companies that belong to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asking them to push back against the Chamber’s campaign to block President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, Yahoo News has learned.
The umbrella organization Change the Chamber, which was formed last year to combat the Chamber of Commerce’s tendency to defend fossil fuel interests, is joined by leading national green groups the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters in its request that members of the Chamber pressure the group to stop lobbying against the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill. The letter will be sent to companies including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Salesforce, 3M, UPS and United Airlines.
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