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Compromise Climate Change Bill Delayed – Again
States Sue EPA Regarding Greenhouse Gas Regulations
California Unveils Draft Cap-and-Trade Rules
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Microsoft on U.S. Chamber: Abort, Retry, Fail. Okay, not exactly. If only Microsoft's corporate communications guys practiced the same economy of words as the author of those old DOS error messages.
Instead, they've issued a strongly worded statement (as these things go) and re-published it on their Environmental Sustainability Blog. The gist of it: We don't participate in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's climate change initiatives, and the Chamber does not speak for, or lobby for, Microsoft. We're way more serious about this climate change thing.
Microsoft's memo is in response to the Chamber's lobbying against cap-and-trade and other serious efforts to limit greenhouse emissions, which the Chamber considers "ill-conceived," and which it has pledged to resist.
Like most big businesses, Microsoft is a Chamber member, and there's the rub. By taking stances against legislation to slow climate change, the Chamber is lobbying for what it sees as the aggregate interests of its constituent corporations. After all, they all use electricity, right?
That logic has Microsoft breathing fire (as these things go).
Recommended for Further Reading:
- Copenhagen Climate Conference Riot - Police Beat Protesters as Talks Inside Deadlocked
- Oil Spill Disaster may help change Climate Bill for the better
- New Zealand Passes Carbon Trade Laws while Australia Edges Closer
- Compromise Climate Change Bill Delayed – Again
- States Sue EPA Regarding Greenhouse Gas Regulations
- California Unveils Draft Cap-and-Trade Rules
- Microsoft's Environmental Atlas vividly displays the effects of Global Warming
- EPA revises Carbon Emission Regulation Proposals for "Small Emitters"
- EPA's New Emission Rules Finally Getting Implemented - Aimed at Large Scale Polluters
- Senator Kerry Defies Common Wisdom with High Hopes for Swift Action on Climate Bill
- Senator Kerry Seeks Compromises to Get Clean Energy Bill Passed
- Fate of the World Video Game Lets You Be the Ninja of Climate Change
- U.N. Climate Talks - U.S. Says Lack of China CO2 Transparency is a Dealbreaker
- Climate Change Bills are Competing for Legislators’ Support
- Southeastern Legal Foundation Fights EPA on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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Microsoft is right ! they see what is happening with our climate and not seeing green as there first priorty(money} they see money can be made without destroying our planet how long are we going to use fossil fuels until we are all dead from all the poison we dump in to our air and water
Good point! It probably doesn't hurt that up there in Redmond, Washington they're surrounded by forests and nature. And of course it can't be bad for their PR.
What is stopping other name-brand US companies from also making a public statement like this? To me the surprising thing is that we find it remarkable when a global company takes a stand on any controversial issues.