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...Protection Agency, and the White House has increased its efforts to seek out CEOs directly and marginalize the Chamber. Major Fortune 500 players Nike, Apple, Exelon and PG & E, recently quit the organization (or its board) because of its "extreme rhetoric and obstructionist tactics" on global warming, as Nike put it in a letter. The Chamber has spent $17 million on the health-care debate, more than any other organization, but may end up losing its fight to keep any form of public option from ending up in the final legislation. And last week, the Chamber was the victim...
...gases - authorized under a Supreme Court decision - the Chamber maintained there are likely to be some positive aspects to climate change. The resulting skepticism among environmental groups turned to outrage in early October , when a senior official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that climate science should be put "on trial" like in the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey case, in which a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution rather than creationism. The statement, by William Kovacs, the Chamber's vice president for policy, was later disowned by the Chamber, but the damage was already done...
Pamela Samuelson, a faculty director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology who has raised concerns about the deal, called it an "extremely significant case" for the future of digital publishing. "The logic of the agreement, I think, is going to put Google in a very privileged position in the digital book market...
Objectors have raised a dizzying array of criticisms: that the deal would put Google, the author's group and a small number of large publishers in the driver's seat of as-yet undiscovered e-book technology; that foreign authors and publishers weren't included; that the settlement was struck in secret; that many publishers and authors - particularly those in other countries - didn't even know about the case and weren't given enough time to respond once they found out. Publishers in Sweden and Germany complained that the settlement notification was so poorly translated that they had trouble understanding...
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