Today we iPod Touch addicts and Macbook users can claim one less guilt trip: Apple Computer has become the latest high-profile defection from the US Chamber of Commerce, over the group's opposition to curbing greenhouse gas pollution.
In a letter dated today, communicating the company's immediate resignation, Catherine A. Novelli, the vice-president of worldwide government affairs at Apple wrote, "We strongly object to the chamber's recent comments opposing the E.P.A.'s effort to limit greenhouse gases." Kate Galbraith at The New York Times' "Green Inc." blog snagged the letter and put it online:
As a company, we are working hard to redue our own greenhoues gas emissions by relying on renewable energy at our facilities and designing more energy-efficient products for our customers. We have undertakine this unilaterally and without government mandate, because we believe it is the right thing to do. For those companies who cannot or will not do the same, Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the Chamber at odds with us on this effort.
The US Chamber of Commerce, one of the nation's most powerful business lobbies, has steadfastly opposed curbs on greenhouse gas pollution, via either a cap-and-trade market or mandates under the Clean Air Act.
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