To the editor: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce objects to 2 new California state legal guidelines that may require firms to “disclose the ‘climate-related dangers’ they foresee and the way their operations and emissions contribute to local weather change” (“Supreme Court docket urged to dam California legal guidelines requiring firms to reveal local weather impacts,” Nov. 14). The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, by the best way, is a nationwide advocacy group that, in line with its web site, believes “within the skill of American companies to enhance lives, resolve issues, and strengthen society.”
Local weather change impacts employees and their earnings, insurance coverage dangers and prices, housing affordability, the worth of meals and primary human well being, to call only a handful of sectors at present being affected proper now, in actual time. By objecting to the gathering of information, the Chamber means that ignorance is a viable technique for bettering lives, fixing issues and strengthening society. It’s not.
Local weather change is just not “deeply controversial,” as legal professionals for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describe a number of instances all through the article. Neither is amassing knowledge. Denying actuality, nevertheless, may fall beneath that class.
Meredith Rose, Pasadena
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To the editor: The assertion from legal professionals for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that local weather change is a “deeply controversial” matter could be laughable if the stakes weren’t so excessive.
They don’t need the companies they characterize to must disclose the air pollution they’re answerable for. However wouldn’t or not it’s fairer for progressive, less-polluting firms to have the ability to compete on a stage taking part in discipline for our greenbacks? Their urging of the Supreme Court docket to dam a California legislation as a consequence of take impact in January is a web page proper out of the tobacco lobbyists’ playbook.
“Deeply controversial,” my foot! All sincere companies ought to boycott the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for his or her misguided efforts that endanger public well being and impede progress.
Isabelle Teraoka, Westminster
