Big Companies Urge Biden, Congress to Address Climate Change

A broad cross section of big U.S. corporations including Amazon.com Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Ford Motor Co. are calling on Congress to work closely with President-elect Joe Biden to address the threat of climate change. In a letter to be sent to Congress and the Biden transition team on Wednesday, more than 40 companies say they support the U.S. rejoining the Paris climate accord, and urge “President-elect Biden and the new Congress to work together to enact ambitious, durable, bipartisan climate solutions.” The letter doesn’t detail any specific action plan or policy proposal, but it is the latest indication that a significant cohort of corporate America is lining up with environmentalists on climate change. General Motors Co. said last week that it will no longer back the Trump administration’s legal battle to strip California’s authority to set its own fuel-efficiency regulations. Days before that, the American Farm Bureau Federation—once one of the major opponents of climate legislation in Congress—announced a new agribusiness coalition to promote federal support for cutting agricultural emissions. Companies are responding to pressure from both consumers and their own workers who are increasingly concerned about climate change. And they see a new president and Congress, including some conservatives, putting a bigger emphasis on finding ways to avoid catastrophic outcomes from a warming Earth. “Climate is going to be a much bigger deal in the next Congress because there is the prospect of something happening,” when previously there was none, said Stephen Harper, senior director of environment and energy policy for Intel Corp. , one of the signatories...WSJ

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Now just who do you suppose did all the organizational work necessary to get this letter signed?

The letter was organized by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, or C2ES, an environmental group that works with businesses and governments. Several of the companies that signed it work with and help fund the group.

 That's right. They actually hire a group to lobby themselves.