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  • Businesses See Climate Change Adaptation as an Opportunit
    { Monday, June 20th }

    World Resources Institute - 06-20-2011. Climate adaptation offers competitive advantages to businesses worldwide, according to the new report, Adapting for a Green Economy: Companies, Communities and Climate Change, jointly released today by the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Oxfam and the World Resources Institute. In response to a survey of global businesses, 86 percent described responding to climate risks or investing in adaptation as a business opportunity.

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  • New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support For EPA and Stronger Smog Standards
    { Thursday, June 16th }

    The American Lung Association - 6/16/11. The American Lung Association released results of its Clean Air Survey, which found that 75 percent of voters support the EPA setting stricter limits on smog, and a significant majority of voters reject the notion that stronger standards will impede economic recovery, with most believing that updated standards are likely to will create more jobs as a result of innovation and investment in new technologies.

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  • Joint Small Business Statement Opposing Legislative Attempts to Undermine the EPA and Clean Air Act
    { Wednesday, March 16th }

    Today, organizations representing a diverse set of business interests that range in size from fortune 500 companies to the small businesses that make up the backbone of this country, signed a joint statement in opposition to legislative attempts to undermine the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce the Clean Air Act (CAA).

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  • MORE THAN 60,000 FIRMS IN U.S. BUSINESS GROUPS URGE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT EPA, CAUTION THAT CLEAN AIR ACT RULE DELAYS COULD DRIVE UP BUSINESS COSTS
    { Wednesday, December 15th }

    WASHINGTON, D.C.///December 15, 2010///Today, the EPA and the Clean Air Act got a huge boost from large and small U.S. companies, when over 60,000 firms represented by 14 business organizations told Congress to keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Clean Air Act strong.

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  • U.S. Senate's Inaction on Climate/Energy Bill Costing 1.9 Million Jobs
    { Tuesday, September 14th }

    WASHINGTON, D.C.///September 14, 2010///China and other leading nations have gained more than $11 billion in job-creating clean-energy investments – with the U.S. losing an estimated $208 million every day – since the U.S. Senate abandoned comprehensive clean energy legislation in late July, according to a new analysis from Small Business Majority, Main Street Alliance, American Businesses for Clean Energy and We Can Lead.

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  • Business Leaders Count the Cost of the US Senate's Failure to Act on Clean Energy and Climate Legislation
    { Monday, August 2nd }

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - American Business for Clean Energy, American Sustainable Business Council, Small Business Majority, We Can Lead and Women’s Business Development Center, representing over 5,000 businesses, are highlighting the costs of the US Senate’s failure to act on comprehensive clean energy legislation using a ticker that counts, in real time, the amount in which America is falling behind other countries in clean energy investments since the Senate abandoned climate legislation in July. The ticker also points to the jobs that would be created by clean energy and climate legislation. The groups are urging Senators to resume work on a bill. The ticker will appear in Politico and the Washington Post this week, and appear on the business groups’ and their supporters’ websites.

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