Big business pushes for climate [swindle] - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
To make the case, more than 150 business leaders from utilities, manufacturers and clean-energy companies plan to "swarm" Capitol Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday. The fly-in is being organized by We Can Lead, an umbrella business organization.
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Separately, on Tuesday, 28 companies and labor and green groups — including United Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Weyerhauser, the Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Action Fund — are launching a seven-figure advertising campaign “in support of comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation.”
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Timberland President and CEO Jeff Swartz, whose grandfather founded the footwear company, signed on to the letter and said corporations just want to know “what the facts are, and I’ll get around to innovating in order to make a profit against them.”
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