Nike, Aspen, Clif Bar Run Full Page Climate [Scam] Ad In NY Times | Transworld Business

Industry members Nike, Aspen, and Clif Bar have joined a growing number of companies petitioning the government to enact a mandatory cap and trade program for green house gas emissions. The group put its money where its mouth is by taking out the following full page ad in the New York Tmes:

MinnPost - D.C. Dispatches: Peterson urges changes in energy and climate-change legislation

“A lot of us on the [Agriculture] Committee do not want the EPA near our farms,” Peterson, who chairs the panel, told Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack at today’s packed hearing in Washington. “And, I don’t think you are going to get any type of a bill through Congress, whatever the administration wants, that is going to have that system, for whatever it is worth.”
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“My big problem is that they are mixing climate change together with energy independence,” Peterson told reporters Wednesday. “I don’t think that is smart.”

Caterpillar CEO Commits to Pro-Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Course While Admitting Risk to USA and His Own Corporation

"Caterpillar CEO Owens' flippant remark that stockholders can just sell their stock if Caterpillar's lobbying efforts harm the company leaves me wondering: Does Owens expect us to sell our stock in America, too? Because by lobbying for legislation that would harm individual Americans and American competitiveness, it sure seems like that's what Mr. Owens and his board of directors have done," said Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Mr. Owens freely admits the legislation his firm backs will hurt the country and his company unless it also is adopted by major nations worldwide, but everyone knows the powerhouses China and India have no interest in doing so."