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Chamber CEO Takes a Bite Out of Apple

Stephen Power, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 7, 2009 at 1:49 pm PT

It looks like the Chamber of Commerce isn’t ready to let Apple Inc. have the last word in the tiff between the two over U.S. climate policy. In a letter to Apple CEO Steven Jobs today, Chamber President Thomas Donohue takes the software maker to task for bolting the business organization a day earlier.

Exodus: Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Spat

Keith Johnson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 6, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

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.