Greener Apple latest to quit over climate

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Rob Fyfe isn’t the only business leader calling for socks to be pulled up over climate change. High powered companies appear to dropping like flies from the US chamber of commerce, on account of its anti-climate action stance.

The lobbying powerhouse has been fighting an Environmental Protection Agency initiative to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a stance that’s rendering hot the underside of some very influential collars.

Apple is the latest to quit the business lobby group, saying: ‘We strongly object to the Chamber’s recent comments opposing the EPA’s effort to limit Greenhouse Gases.’

Nike has also spoken out against the Chamber’s stance and quit its board, circulating a statement late last month openly criticising the group.

Other critics include Exelon and Duke Energy; both members of the corporate and environmental coalition U.S.Climate Action Partnership, which favours federal law requiring “significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions”.

Back to Apple, it has been making attempts to align the colour of its practices with the colour of its namesake, responding well to a Greenpeace campaign to green global electronics, creeping up the organisation’s ranking guide and recently making public details of its carbon emissions.

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  1. Ianmac 1
    7 October 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Marlborough Express today:
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/2939916/Forum-on-global-warming

    …..Marlborough Federated Farmers believes the science behind climate change is incorrect……
    The fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report released last year …….
    “The IPCC are fraudsters: they don’t tell the truth,” said Mr Dillon. [Marl Fed Farmers Past President] ……..”We want the public to know what the real truth is.”

    ….and so on for a Public meeting by Marl Fed Farmers on denial. No wonder the farmers do not want to pay their way!

  2. Macro 2
    7 October 2009 at 9:13 pm

    BP, Rio Tinto, and 500 other major global companies are calling for Countries to take strong action in reducing carbon emissions.

    http://www.bioregional.com/news-views/news/bioregional-joins-world-businesses-in-call-for-bold-copenhagen-climate-targets/

    But it is all a communist plot designed to reduce milk payouts to farmers!

  3. roger nome 3
    8 October 2009 at 9:10 am

    I heard that some of Stalin’s genetic material was frozen when he died, and a group of die-hard communists have been looking after it until the day he could be cloned. Well, so called “climate change” is a result of the said clone’s plot to finally fulfill the original Stalin’s dream of enslaving the world with a communist emissions trading scheme.

    Luckily redbaiter and Ian Wishart have been working hard to uncover this dastardly plot and we can look forward to follow up to that riveting book “Aircon” that lays the whole conspiracy bare. Can’t wait!

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