Oil companies undermining climate partnership

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Oil companies undermining climate partnership

David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Early in 2007, a coalition of big companies broke ranks with corporate America and declared that global warming was a real, grave threat.

The United States Climate Action Partnership changed the national debate over warming. Executives from member companies such as DuPont, Ford Motor Co. and PG&E Corp. lobbied Congress to do something about greenhouse gases.

They joined forces with environmental groups that also were part of the partnership, groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Together, they helped lay the groundwork for the climate bill that the U.S. Senate will debate this fall.

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Some of the oil companies that joined the partnership are taking part in an oil industry campaign against the climate change bill in Congress. The campaign features public rallies against the bill in places such as Houston and Greensboro, N.C., coordinated by the industry's main lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute.

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[SharonAnn]

1. Now, that's a surprise! Not!