Apple tells Chamber iQuit over climate stance

This is heartening. The Chamber of Commerce has really been disgusting on this issue.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33184082/ns/business-us_business/

updated 6:32 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct . 5, 2009

WASHINGTON - Apple Inc on Monday became the latest company to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because the technology company disagrees with the business group's climate change policy.

"We would prefer that the chamber take a more progressive stance on this critical issue and play a constructive role in addressing the climate crisis," Catherine Novelli, a vice president of government affairs at Apple, wrote in a letter dated Monday to the business group.

Novelli wrote that Apple resigned its membership in the business group "effective immediately."

Last month three big power utilities, Exelon Corp, PG&E Corp and PNM Resources Inc, said they were leaving the chamber over the group's stance on climate.