The timing of these defections seems curious: is it orchestrated?

Exodus: Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Spat - Environmental Capital - WSJ

And then there were five—defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its climate-change policy, that is.

Apple today resigned its membership in the Chamber “effective immediately.” That’s a harsher tone than the other departures—three utilities said they’d let their membership lapse at the end of the year, and Nike simply quite the Chamber’s board of directors.