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Switchboard, from NRDC: Chamber Membership Falls by 2.7 Million Due to ... Scrutiny
TreeHugger: Another Bad PR Week for the Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Policy
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Chamber of Commerce Faces Intense Pressure Over Extreme Climate Position
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Info on the Mother Jones expose of US Chamber claims is at http://bit.ly/k22nw 29 days ago |
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What's cool? wee Mother / Jones getting huge Chamber / 2 back down - one day! RT @MoJoBlueMarble http://bit.ly/1cllqs #CEJAPA 10/16/2009 |
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RT @ChamberOverhaul US #Chamber Shrinks #Membership 90% - Numbers suddenly change, and #lie. http://bit.ly/8ZZb9 #ACCE 10/16/2009 |
Chamber Membership Falls by 2.7 Million Due to ... Scrutiny
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Josh Harkinson at Mother Jones notes that the US Chamber is now saying it has 300,000 member, not 3,000,000 as its been claiming recently. As Josh reports: ...
Another Bad PR Week for the Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Policy
TreeHugger —
... The much beleaguered U.S. Chamber of Commerce is having another bad PR week after Mother Jones revealed yesterday that they have inflated their membership numbers and that the holding company owned by multi-billionaire ...
The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Chamber of Commerce Faces Intense Pressure Over Extreme Climate Position
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... It turns out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce only has 300,000 members, not the “more than 3 million” it claimed to represent just a day ago, before Mother Jones magazine questioned the business lobby’s inflated numbers. ...
The Biggest Loser: Incredible, shrinking Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day!
Climate Progress —
... A day after this public scrutiny began, the Chamber is quietly backing down. At a press conference this morning, Chamber officials “repeatedly cited a membership of 300,000. That’s a tenth as many members as the Chamber claimed a day earlier.” ...
Earth to Chamber of Commerce Members: Change or Leave
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
... against the Chamber for its opposition. And the Chamber is on the run, having been forced to backpedal on its claims to be the voice of the business community; last week the Chamber claimed to ‘represent’ 3 million businesses, but this week it quietly reduced that number to ‘300,000’ members. ...
US Chamber's Long History of Killing Clean Energy Policy
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... Last week, Mother Jones revealed that the Chamber has also been inflating its membership numbers by 1,000 per cent. While the Chamber has been claiming to represent "more than three million" U.S. businesses, in reality, it has just 300,000 business members. That still could be seen as an impressive number but, at less than 1% of all American companies, it hardly justifies the Chambers claim to be "the voice of business" in the United States. ...
US Chamber Shuts off TheYesMen.org and Websites of Hundreds of Other Activist Groups
Commondreams.org Newswire —
... for selling tickets to the film. The Chamber's actions thus impinge on the ability of these small businesses to turn a profit. "The Chamber claims to represent 3 million businesses of every size , yet their actions undermined a fair number of small businesses," said Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men. "The Chamber is clearly much less interested in actual freedom, economic or otherwise, than in the license of their largest members to operate free from the scientific consensus." (The Chamber has opposed or refused to endorse a climate bill, the absurdity of which the Yes Men's ...
