More Pressure On Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Change Stance
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's hostility to climate change legislation is making for something of a hostile climate for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's hostility to climate change legislation is making for something of a hostile climate for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business
Mother Jones reports that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce likely inflates the number of businesses in its membership. While it touts having 3 million mem...
Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
The White House on Friday renewed its push for a consumer financial protection agency with President Obama and a senior economic official warning Cong...
Pete Altman | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
The Chamber's tone-deaf response to the situation is contributing to reputation damage that is hurting the organization's credibility.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
Big Business is not as interested in making big plans or big money with big ideas as they are in blaming Washington for all that ultimately ails you.
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Politico reports that corporations including General Electric and Nike are under pressure from environmentalist groups to drop their membership in the...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lost another member because of its opposition to climate change legislation, reports the Washington Post. The natio...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
Bravo to Pacific Gas & Electric for taking a stand against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's head-in-the-sand approach to climate change threats.
Michael Winship | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
While executives are dancing with your dollars, the foreclosures they helped to bring on continue to rise. Many banks are dragging their feet, enjoying the bailout bucks but failing to spread them around.
wsj.com | BRODY MULLINS | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching an advertising campaign of at least $2 million aimed at defeating a central plank of the Obama administrati...
Carl Pope | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
It appears that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has allowed itself to be hijacked for the purpose of ensuring that ignoramuses continue to control U.S. energy and climate policy.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
The oil industry is paying its employees to go to "Energy Citizen" events, claiming they are grassroots when nothing could be further from the truth. If you live in one of the cities below, show up.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 09.13.2009 | Home
An internal memo obtained recently by Greenpeace USA details polluting interests' plans to launch a nationwide astroturf campaign attacking climate legislation at public events.
Chris Gunn | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Since '03, more than 15 federal investigations have uncovered the diversion of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 corporations and thousands of other clearly large firms.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.
Michael Whitney | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
At the end of last year, while the economy collapsed and BofA took on its first $25 billion bailout, the U.S. Chamber saw fit to honor Bank of America with its "2008 Corporate Citizenship Award." Because nothing says "Corporate Citizenship" like milking taxpayers for unprecedented billions.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
Unionization is how the middle class re-emerges. America could do without a few filthy-rich boys lolling on yachts in the Mediterranean.
Steve Parker | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics
We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.26.2009 | Media
The use of "neutral" content is a cheap and lazy way of filling air time, which is why we see so much of it on the cable news networks.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
To survive this economic catastrophe, Americans must stand up to the likes of the Chamber and the Roundtable and call them out for being economic traitors to the United States of America.
HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
At least $23.8 billion in corporate tax breaks have been included in the $825 billion economic recovery package in order to win backing from key busin...
Chris Gunn | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business
In a guest commentary published on The Exception Magazine's website, www.exceptionmag.com; the President and Founder of the American Small Business Le...
The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green