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Oh-oh: "One thing I can tell you: They can go out and chase me and chase the Chamber and put stuff in the newspaper. It only . . . drives more and more support. . . . You think we are going to blink because a couple of people are out shooting at us? Tell 'em to put their damn helmets on." Them's fighting words, all the more so when delivered in the feisty, New York accent of U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue. The 71-year-old was recruited 12 years ago in order to revitalize

Shell Collecting: Shell has won the right to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic Ocean; the drilling will happen between July and October 2010. Green Inc. ( NYT ) Fooled Ya: An activist-prankster group called the Yes Men put on a fake press conference announcing that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had reversed its skeptical position on climate change; some news organizations bit, including FOX Business and Reuters . Ecorazzi Random Acts: Chimps engage in spontaneous altruistic actions, pr

Trying to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its position on climate change, an investors group has fired off letters to 14 major U.S. corporations, asking them to publicly distance themselves from the chamber’s positions. Representing $16 billion in assets, the investors group is led by Walden Asset Management and Green Century [...]

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Greenpeace has decided they’ll get more attention from praising Apple than by trying to bury it. The environmental organization is singing hosannas and heysannas to the Cupertino-company for taking a green stand and resigning from the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple walked away from the organization on Monday over Chamber actions seen by Apple as opposing efforts to limit greenhouse gases. Chamber President Thomas Donohue says his organizatio

There’s nothing like watching an American company in the middle of a deep recession be so committed to killing jobs and economic growth that it resigns from massive business interest groups. Apple, known for its friendship with Al Gore and financial support of social liberalism, is leaving the Chamber of Commerce because the organization opposes cap-and-trade legislation in its current form. Apple is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the organization’s strident critic