Nat'l Black Chamber of Comm

Pattern: sellouts BS uncle tom fronts?  also hispanic

see ALFORD NBCC

capt alford 816

see ca prop 23

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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">feb 2018</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/exxonmobils-climate-disinformation-campaign-is-still-alive-and-well" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/exxonmobils-climate-disinformation-campaign-is-still-alive-and-well</a>/</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a recent <a href="https://energyfactor.exxonmobil.com/perspectives/better-approach-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">blog post</a>, ExxonMobil executive Suzanne McCarron reiterated her company’s claim that it fully accepts the reality of climate change and that it wants to do something about it....“I want to use this opportunity to be 100 percent clear about where we stand on climate change,” she wrote. “We believe the risk of climate change is real and we are committed to being part of the solution. So why is the company still a part of—in fact, a major part of—the problem?An exchange between Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt during a recent <a href="https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/1/oversight-hearing-to-receive-testimony-from-environmental-protection-agency-administrator-scott-pruitt" oversight="oversight" hearing="hearing" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"> is a case in point, providing a window into how ExxonMobil’s undue influence continues to block climate action.</a><p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">During the January 30 hearing, which was held by the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Sen. Cory Booker inadvertently provoked Inhofe by raising the issue of environmental justice. The New Jersey Democrat cited the threat climate change-induced flooding poses to three dozen Superfund sites in his state and asked Pruitt if he was “taking into account the environmental burdens disproportionately impacting communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities.”Inhofe seized the opportunity to contradict Booker, claiming that minority and low-income communities are disproportionately harmed by environmental protections, specifically citing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which would have dramatically reduced carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants if Pruitt hadn’t repealed it.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Booker, Inhofe said, was implying that Pruitt was trying to “punish” vulnerable Americans. “I wanted to just remind you,” Inhofe told the committee, “that we had a guy I remember so well, Harry Alford. He was the president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. He provided some of the most powerful testimony that I have ever heard when it comes to the effects of the Clean Power Plan and some of the other regulations … on black and Hispanic poverty, including job losses and increased energy costs.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">“[Alford] was very emphatic as to who was paying the price on these,” the Oklahoma Republican continued, “and I think sometimes that the previous administration forgot that there are already people out there who are paying all they can pay just to try to eat and keep their house warm.”<h3 style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 1rem auto 1.6rem; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.002em; max-width: 32rem;">ExxonMobil’s Echo Chamber</h3><p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Inhofe’s source for his assertion? A discredited, ExxonMobil-funded study by an Exxon-funded advocacy group that was based on discredited studies by other ExxonMobil-funded organizations.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Inhofe rested his argument on previous congressional testimony by Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), a shoestring, mom-and-pop operation that is unapologetic about taking fossil fuel industry money. “Of course we do and it is only natural,” Alford <a href="http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/beyond-the-rhetoric/2428-fossil-fuels-and-african-americans-it-s-family" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">wrote</a> on NBCC’s website. “The legacy of Blacks in this nation has been tied to the miraculous history of fossil fuel…. [F]ossil fuels have been our economic friend.”<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">One of NBCC’s closest economic friends is ExxonMobil, which has donated more than $1.14 million to the group since 2001.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">What did the company get for that money?<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">In 2015, NBCC commissioned a report that <a href="http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/latest-news/2426-epa-rule-impoverishes-minorities" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">claimed</a> the Clean Power Plan would “inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families, especially minorities.”<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">In fact, unchecked climate change would more than likely <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-hits-poor-hardest/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">hurt</a> those communities most, and investments in energy efficiency under the plan would ultimately <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/reduce-emissions/how-much-will-clean-power-plan-cost?ga=2.50634219.339710596.1518014951-803850457.1367700932#bf-toc-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">lower</a> electricity bills across the country.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">How did NBCC arrive at its upside-down assessment? The Union of Concerned Scientists took a <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/new-flawed-study-of-the-clean-power-plan-how-the-misi-study-gets-it-so-wrong-759" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">close look</a> at the report and found it was based on several flawed fossil fuel industry-friendly studies. Two of those bogus studies were produced by ExxonMobil grantees: the Heritage Foundation, which received $340,000 from ExxonMobil between 2007 and 2013, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which received $3 million between 2014 and 2016.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">The Chamber study, which came out just days before the EPA released a draft of the Clean Power Plan, was debunked not only by the <a href="https://blog.epa.gov/blog/2014/05/setting-the-record-straight-on-the-chamber-of-commerces-report/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">EPA</a>, but also by <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/may/30/its-epa-vs-us-chamber-commerce-over-climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">PolitiFact.com</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/06/03/gop-lawmakers-rush-to-cite-study-to-discredit-new-epa-rule-but-study-assumed-epa-rule-would-be-tougher/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">The Washington Post</a>. Among its many faults, the Chamber study—which was co-sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute—wildly inflated the cost of the plan and failed to consider the benefits of cutting carbon emissions.<h3 style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 1rem auto 1.6rem; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.002em; max-width: 32rem;">ExxonMobil Spreads its Money Around</h3><p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">But there’s more than just the fact that ExxonMobil financed deliberately flawed studies to try to derail the Clean Power Plan. The company also is a major supporter of a number of Senate EPW Committee members, including Inhofe, who are adamant <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pg5zqg/a-guide-to-the-climate-change-deniers-in-congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">climate science deniers</a>.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Inhofe has deep ties to the oil and gas industry, which has <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00005582&cycle=CAREER" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">donated</a> $1.85 million to his campaign war chest over his long career in Congress, more than twice than any other industry. Three oil and gas companies are among the senator’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00005582&cycle=CAREER" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">top 10</a> corporate contributors: Koch Industries, Devon Energy and … ExxonMobil.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Six of the other 10 Republicans on the EPW Committee also are on ExxonMobil’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000129" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">donation list</a>, including Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the current committee chairman. Roughly half of the $119,500 ExxonMobil contributed to the seven senators over the last decade went to Barrasso and Inhofe, the committee’s previous chairman.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Then there’s ExxonMobil’s link to Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general before President Trump tapped him to run the EPA. From 2012 through 2013, he chaired the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) and afterward served on the organization’s executive committee. From 2014 through 2016, ExxonMobil <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?url=527cmtedetail_donors.php%3Fcycle%3D2014%26ein%3D464501717&cname=Exxon+Mobil&ein=464501717&cycle=2014" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">gave</a> RAGA $160,000 in three annual installments.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Just a few weeks after the company made its 2016 donation of $50,000, Pruitt and then-RAGA Chairman Luther Strange, at the time Alabama’s attorney general, co-authored a National Review <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435470/climate-change-attorneys-general" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">column</a> attacking a <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032016/climate-change-fraud-investigation-exxon-eric-shneiderman-18-attorneys-general" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">coalition of state attorneys general</a> investigating ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies for misleading investors and the general public about climate change. Parroting ExxonMobil’s <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13012018/exxon-climate-change-investor-fraud-investigations-lawsuit-free-speech-new-york" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">argument</a>, Pruitt and Strange charged that the coalition was violating the company’s first amendment right to free speech.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">“The debate” over climate change, they wrote “is far from settled. Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind. That debate should be encouraged — in classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is not a crime.”<h3 style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.23077; margin: 1rem auto 1.6rem; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.002em; max-width: 32rem;">Inhofe Upstaged</h3><p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">In this case, Inhofe’s counterfactual comment didn’t make it into the ensuing media coverage. Along with nearly everything else that was said during the two-and-a-half hour marathon, it was eclipsed by a bombshell dropped by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. The Rhode Island Democrat revealed that during a February 2016 <a href="http://documentedinvestigations.org/2018/01/30/scott-pruitt-trump-audio/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">radio interview</a>, Pruitt said Trump would be “more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama, and that’s saying a lot.” Whitehouse read Pruitt’s remark aloud and asked him if he recalled making it.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">“I don’t,” Pruitt <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/pruitt-trump-2016-remarks-abusive-constitution/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">responded</a>, “and I don’t echo that today at all.”<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">“I guess not,” Whitehouse replied.<p style="margin: 0px auto 1.6rem; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em; max-width: 32rem;">Not surprisingly, that embarrassing nugget was the story. There was no way that Inhofe’s rambling, ExxonMobil-sponsored falsehood could compete in the media with red meat like that. But overshadowed or not, Inhofe provided yet another incontrovertible piece of evidence that—despite ExxonMobil’s statements to the contrary—the company is still very much engaged behind the scenes in trying to stymie any government attempt to seriously address climate change.</div><footer class="article-footer wrapper" style="font-size: small; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; width: 640px; max-width: 32rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="taxonomy" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 4rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;">Posted in: <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/category/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Change</a>, <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/category/energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Energy</a>, <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/category/science-and-democracy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Science and Democracy</a>, <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/category/scientific-integrity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Scientific Integrity</a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;">Tags: <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/tag/disinformation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">disinformation</a></div></footer>==fluff/ 2 flags<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce</a> National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) was incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., in 1993. It is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonprofit" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">nonprofit</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonpartisan" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">nonpartisan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsectarian" title="Nonsectarian" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">nonsectarian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization" title="Organization" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">organization</a> dedicated to the economic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowerment" title="Empowerment" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">empowerment</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">African American</a> communities. Additionally, the organization indicates that it represents the views of its members regarding economic and political policy issues; domestically and internationally. It is organized as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">501(c)</a> corporation and has at least 190 chapters within the United States. The NBCC also has international chapters in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahamas" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Bahamas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Brazil</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Colombia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Ghana</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jamaica</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> As with all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamber of Commerce" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Chambers of Commerce</a>, affiliate branches are committed to carrying out the goals of the main Chamber within their areas.However, the organization is largely funded by non-African American businesses on behalf of whose interests it often lobbies, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Fossil fuel industry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">fossil fuel</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications" title="Telecommunications" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">telecommunications</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Davies2015-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Kushnick2007-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Dampier2009-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tobacco industries</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Lorber2011-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-YergerMalone-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a> and has sometimes been accused of being a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Front group" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">front group</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Dampier2009-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Davies2015-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Alvarado2015-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a>The National Black Chamber of Commerce is based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Origin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Origin</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Mission_and_strategic_goals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Mission and strategic goals</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Business_development" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Business development</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Funding</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Positions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Positions</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Organization</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#Citations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5.1Citations</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Origin[</h2>The NBCC is a very young national organization when compared to others such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NAACP</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_on_Racial_Equality" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress on Racial Equality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Congress on Racial Equality</a> (CORE). NBCC was founded in 1993 by Harry C. Alford and his wife Kay DeBow.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> Alford, who serves as the first President and CEO, is also a Board member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="United States Chamber of Commerce" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Chamber of Commerce</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> In an interview reported in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Human Events</a>, Mr. Alford identifies with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T.Washington" title="Booker T. Washington" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Booker T. Washington</a> approach to African American self empowerment and sees the approach of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E.B.Du_Bois" class="mw-redirect" title="W.E.B. Du Bois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">W.E.B. Du Bois</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP" title="NAACP" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NAACP</a> (whom he calls enemies of Washington) as primarily political.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mission and strategic goals[</h2>The stated mission of the NBCC is to "economically empower and sustain African American communities through entrepreneurship and capitalistic activity within the United States and via interaction with the Black <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora" title="Diaspora" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Diaspora</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> It claims to be the first major African American organization to focus on economic empowerment.The NBCC works to fulfill its mission by implementing the following goals:[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Increase <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_development" title="Business development" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">business development</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_growth" title="Economic growth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economic growth</a> within the African American community via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurement" title="Procurement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">procurement</a>, access to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital(economics)" title="Capital (economics)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">capital</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_trade" title="International trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">international trade</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Secure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship" class="mw-redirect" title="Sponsorship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sponsorship</a> for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding" title="Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">funding</a> and guidance of NBCC programs.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Educate and train members of the African American community regarding business development and their purpose to benefit society.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Provide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_support" title="Technical support" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">technical support</a> to affiliate chapters.</li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Business development[</h3>
Funding[The NBCC reaches 100,000 Black owned businesses. There are 1 million Black owned businesses in the United States. Black businesses account for over $100 billion in annual sales. African Americans have over $800 billion in expendable income each year according to the US Bureau of Census.The NBCC "is funded primarily by fossil fuel energy companies, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Koch Industries</a> and ExxonMobil," according to a 2015 analysis by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Center_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Florida Center for Investigative Reporting" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Florida Center for Investigative Reporting</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Mobil" class="mw-redirect" title="Exxon Mobil" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Exxon Mobil</a> includes the NBCC on its 2004 list of contributions and community investments.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-mma20150626-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a> From 2002 through 2014 NBCC received $1 million,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> and from 2008 through 2015 $800,000, from Exxon Mobil.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-wapo20150928-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a> In June 2015 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy</a> contributed $10,000 to the NBCC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-ucs20160630-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a> Other fossil fuel companies that have funded NBCC include the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Power_Company" title="Gulf Power Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gulf Power Company</a> division of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Company" title="Southern Company" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Company</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation" title="Chevron Corporation" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chevron</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a> The NBCC acknowledges funding from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">fossil fuel</a> companies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-wapo20150928-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-nbccfossil-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a>NBCC has also received funding from and lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry. Tobacco company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria" title="Altria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Altria</a> was scheduled to sponsor the 2004 Fall Summit meeting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negril" title="Negril" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Negril</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jamaica</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> It had previously received funding from Altria's predecessor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip_Morris_Companies_Inc&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Morris Companies Inc (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Philip Morris Companies Inc</a> and from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.J.Reynolds_Tobacco_Company" title="R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company</a>, and facilitated marketing access to its members.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-YergerMalone-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> In March 2011, Alford appeared before a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Food_and_Drug_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="U. S. Food and Drug Administration" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">U. S. Food and Drug Administration</a> advisory panel to oppose proposed restrictions on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menthol_cigarettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Menthol cigarettes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">menthol cigarettes</a>, which are used disproportionately by African Americans. In doing so, he sided with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorillard" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorillard" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lorillard</a>, whose major product was mentholated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_cigarettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Newport cigarettes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Newport cigarettes</a>, and which had been an NBCC member since 2008, paying $35,000 in dues annually.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Lorber2011-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>NBCC has also received funding from and lobbied on behalf of the telecommunications industry. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon" class="mw-redirect" title="Verizon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Verizon</a> was listed as a funder of NBCC,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Kushnick2007-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Dampier2009-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> which has in turn lobbied the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality" title="Net neutrality" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">net neutrality</a> and other telecommunications industry regulations.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Kushnick2007-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Dampier2009-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> NBCC also voiced support for a proposed merger between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AT&T</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile" title="T-Mobile" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">T-Mobile</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-Lorber2011-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Packard" class="mw-redirect" title="Hewlett Packard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hewlett Packard</a> sponsored the 2003 Annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention(meeting)" title="Convention (meeting)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">convention</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Birmingham, Alabama</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Abbett" title="Lord Abbett" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lord Abbett</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Life</a> participated with the NBCC in the sponsorship of the Building Wealth Tour.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chemistry_Council" title="American Chemistry Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Chemistry Council</a> has also funded NBCC.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>In 2015, Florida Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings" title="Alcee Hastings" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alcee Hastings</a> urged NBCC to cut ties with industry groups that spread misinformation on air pollution.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Positions[</h2>The NBCC takes positions on federal and state legislation and issues that may affect its goals.The NBCC "has been a staunch ally of utility and fossil fuel companies for nearly a quarter century," according to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Center_for_Investigative_Reporting" title="Florida Center for Investigative Reporting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Florida Center for Investigative Reporting</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In 1998, Alford testified before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Congress</a> that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kyoto Protocol</a> would harm minority-owned small businesses.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-fcir20150813-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In testimony submitted to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senate</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Health,Education,Labor,and_Pensions" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions</a> regarding Senate Bill S.625, the NBCC stated that it opposes increased the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Food and Drug Administration</a> (FDA) regulation of tobacco. The reason for its opposition is that the regulation would impose fees affecting small tobacco retailing and distribution businesses in the U.S., many of which are owned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Black American" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Black Americans</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In public comments regarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_antitrust_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft antitrust case" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Microsoft antitrust case</a>, the NBCC along with the Telecommunications Research and Action Center and the National <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Native American</a> Chamber of Commerce indicated that the case settlement was inadequate in terms of consumer protection and that additional remedies were required.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The NBCC denies the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific opinion on climate change" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">scientific consensus on climate change</a>, stating on their website that "...there is no sound science to support the claims of Global Warming."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-nbccenv-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[26]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-ucsnbccreport-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a> In 2009, NBCC opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act" title="American Clean Energy and Security Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Clean Energy and Security Act</a>, a proposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading" title="Emissions trading" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">emissions trading</a> plan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-nbccenv-26" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-nbccenv-26" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">26]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The NBCC supports the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_XL_Pipeline" class="mw-redirect" title="Keystone XL Pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Keystone XL Pipeline</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-wapo20150928-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-nbccfossil-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">In 2015 the NBCC opposed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Protection_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Power_Plan" title="Clean Power Plan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clean Power Plan</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-mma20150626-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-ucs20160630-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> In June 2015 NBCC released a report entitled Potential Impact of Proposed EPA Regulations on Low Income Groups and Minorities;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-ucs20160630-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Concerned_Scientists" title="Union of Concerned Scientists" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Union of Concerned Scientists</a> said the report "relies on misleading claims cut-and-pasted from several previously debunked reports."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-ucsnbccreport-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[29]</a> Seven newspapers published <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed" title="Op-ed" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">op-eds</a> from the NBCC saying that the Plan will impose "economic hardship" on blacks and Hispanics; none of the newspapers disclosed NBCC's funding from the Exxon Mobil Foundation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce#cite_note-mma20150626-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Organization[</h2><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">References[</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Directors" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Board of Directors</a> - The Board consists of no more than 18 Directors at any given time. It develops, implements and supervises the policies of the Chamber and elects all officers.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_title#Corporate_titles" title="Corporate title" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Officers</a> - The Chamber officers are elected from among the Board, and consist of the Chairman of the Board, President/CEO, Secretary, Treasurer, one or more Vice Presidents and other officers as determined by the Board.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Members - Local member and student member chapters; and individuals, businesses and organizations that prefer direct membership to the National Chamber.</li></ul><ul style="list-style-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" d4515="d4515" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalbcc.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" mediawiki.skinning="mediawiki.skinning" images="images" external-ltr.svg="external-ltr.svg" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"National Black Chamber of Commerce"</a>. Retrieved 2007-02-19.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Black+Chamber+of+Commerce&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalbcc.org&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Black+Chamber+of+Commerce" class="Z3988" /></li></ul><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citations</h3><div>...</div>oddly SW has only
<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck</a>
<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""> EPA's Regulatory Trainwreck is a campaign of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> aimed at rolling back and dismantling environmental regulation.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> If the campaign is successful, it would benefit many of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ALEC_Corporations" title="ALEC Corporations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ALEC's corporate member</a>s<div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#External_Articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">
</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Presentations</h2>On December 2, 2010, at ALEC's States and Nation Policy Summit, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Glaser" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Glaser" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Glaser</a> of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Troutman_Sanders_LLP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Troutman Sanders LLP (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Troutman Sanders LLP</a> law firm and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Alford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Alford (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Harry Alford</a> of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Black_Chamber_of_Commerce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Black Chamber of Commerce (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Black Chamber of Commerce</a> led a workshop called "EPA's Regulatory Assault: Higher Prices, Fewer Jobs, and Less Energy."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Presentations were as follows:<ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Glaser" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Glaser" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter Glaser</a>, Troutman Sanders LLP: "The EPA’s Regulatory Cascade: What Can State Legislatures Do?"<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> (View it <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vimeo.com/19702959" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">here</a>.)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Cicio&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Cicio (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Cicio</a>, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Industrial_Energy_Consumers_of_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Industrial Energy Consumers of America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Industrial Energy Consumers of America</a>: "EPA Regulations – Higher Costs and Uncertainty on Manufacturing Competitiveness and Jobs"<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Harry_Alford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harry Alford (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Harry Alford</a>, National Black Chamber of Commerce: "The Impact on Minority Owned Businesses"<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> (View it <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vimeo.com/19704565" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">here</a>.)</li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Bills and Resolutions Proposed and Passed</h2>A number of states have taken action in favor of ALEC's position on the environment and environmental regulation. ALEC's website lists the following bills and resolutions:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Alabama House Joint Resolution 197 (adopted 4/14/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Alaska House Joint Resolution 22</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Florida House Memorial 1375</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Florida Senate Resolution 1260</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Illinois House Resolution 265</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Illinois Senate Resolution 171</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Indiana House Resolution 13 (adopted 1/24/11)<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Indiana Senate Resolution 39 (adopted 4/5/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Iowa House Resolution 52 (adopted 5/6/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Iowa House Study Bill 61</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kansas House Resolution 6008 (adopted 3/28/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kentucky Senate Resolution 116 (adopted 3/3/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Kentucky House Concurrent Resolution 126</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michigan House Resolution 19 (adopted 3/2/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Michigan Senate Resolution 10 (adopted 2/24/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Minnesota Senate File 322</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Missouri House Concurrent Resolution 42 (adopted 5/11/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Missouri Senate Concurrent Resolution 13</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Montana Senate Joint Resolution 10 (adopted 4/1/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">North Dakota House Concurrent Resolution 3028 (adopted 3/28/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ohio House Concurrent Resolution 15</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Oklahoma Senate Concurrent Resolution 13</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Pennsylvania House Resolution 87 (adopted 5/3/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Pennsylvania House Resolution 233</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Texas House Concurrent Resolution 66</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Texas Senate Concurrent Resolution 20</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Utah House Joint Resolution 19 (adopted 3/2/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virginia Senate Resolution 29</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Virginia House Resolution 72 (adopted 2/23/11)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Wyoming Senate Joint Resolution 6 (adopted 2/18/11)</li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Organizations Joining the Campaign</h2>After ALEC launched the campaign to brand the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases as a trainwreck, other organizations joined on board. These include <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FreedomWorks</a>, the Tea Party group funded by the Koch brothers, and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Cattlemen%27s_Beef_Association" title="National Cattlemen's Beef Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Cattlemen's Beef Association</a>. In July 2011, FreedomWorks told its members:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"Behind the scenes, while Washington and the United States focus on the debt crisis, President Obama’s EPA has been quietly implementing one of the most radical and costly policies of his administration. Ever since the failure of cap-and-trade, the administration has turned to the EPA to carry out its radical environmental agenda. Immediately after the 2010 election Obama was quoted saying “Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way.” The EPA is in the process of completing and finalizing 30 major regulations and 170 major policy rules that would impose hundreds of billions of dollars of compliance costs on the economy, killing jobs and threatening the economic recovery. Because of the disastrous affects that the EPA’s new regulations will have on the already struggling economy, many have taken to calling the administration’s aggressive stance the “EPA train wreck.”"</dd></dl>The National Cattlemen's Beef Association created a YouTube video with a train-themed song of rhyming regulations, adding their own agricultural spin on the campaign by lumping in the USDA's <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GIPSA_Rule" title="GIPSA Rule" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GIPSA Rule</a>, a rule aimed at creating a fair environment for competition, with the EPA's environmental regulation.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Articles and Resources</h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Sourcewatch resources</h3><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%23222%22/%3E" c="C" e="E" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e0/EPA-TRAIN-WRECK-2011-Final-Full-printres.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EPA's Regulatory Trainwreck: Strategies for State Legislators</a>," <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, 2011.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FreedomWorks</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Cattlemen%27s_Beef_Association" title="National Cattlemen's Beef Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Cattlemen's Beef Association</a></li></ul><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">References</h3><div class="mw-references-wrap" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=epatrainwreck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">EPA's Regulatory Trainwreck website</a>, Accessed July 17, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=epatrainwreck" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">EPA's Regulatory Trainwreck</a>, Accessed July 17, 2011.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Peter Glaser, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/2/2f/Glaser.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">The EPA’s Regulatory Cascade: What Can State Legislatures Do?</a>," Presented December 2, 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">↑</a> Paul Cicio, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/e/e4/Cicio.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" https="https" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">EPA Regulations – Higher Costs and Uncertainty on Manufacturing Competitiveness and Jobs</a>," Presented December 2, 2010.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/EPA's_Regulatory_Trainwreck#cite_ref-5" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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In Case You Missed It: National Black Chamber of Commerce Endorses Prop 22 – Save App-Based Jobs & Services Act“(Proposition 22) would maintain access to flexible work opportunities for low income individuals by protecting their right to work as independent contractors”
SACRAMENTO – The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has endorsed Proposition 22 on California’s November 3 ballot. NBCC is dedicated to economically empowering and sustaining African American communities.
NBCC joins a broad coalition of more than 75,000 California drivers plus social justice advocates, business and community leaders, and public safety organizations in support of Prop 22. This includes the California-Hawaii State Conference of the NAACP, the California National Action Network and the California Urban Partnership.
In their joint letter dated July 14, co-founders Harry Alford, President and CEO, and Kay DeBow, Executive Vice President, write:
“There is more than just convenience when it comes to rideshare. Rideshare operators are true entrepreneurs.”
“We are being threatened with Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). This threatens to take away the right of Californians to work as independent contractors with flexible schedules with app-based platforms and would force them to become employees with flat wages and set schedules. An employee model would also greatly limit the availability of these services, resulting in lost work opportunities and reduced access to rideshare and delivery services that many minority communities have grown to rely on.
“The solution would be Proposition 22. It would maintain access to flexible work opportunities for low income individuals by protecting their right to work as independent contractors with flexible schedules with app-based rideshare and delivery platforms.”
“By promoting worker flexibility, this ballot measure will protect the availability of rideshare and food and package delivery services that millions of Californians rely on every day.”
“Entrepreneurship is the key to wealth and the above is a shining example of how it can work in today’s economy.”
People of color and disadvantaged communities have been disproportionately ravaged by the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic meltdown. App-based driving has provided opportunities for all Californians, and particularly low-income and minority Californians, to work and earn income quickly and easily. It has been especially important during these troubling times when millions have been furloughed or lost their jobs.
Furthermore, app-based driving provides opportunities to work for thousands of individuals who have trouble finding traditional employment, especially now.
Prop 22 will protect access to this very important work and provide new wage and benefit guarantees.
A study by the Berkeley Research Group confirms an employment model would further eliminate up to 900,000 app-based jobs, a reduction of between 80-90 percent of drivers currently driving today. These job losses will come at the worst possible time when California is facing high unemployment and when app-based work opportunities will provide a lifeline for people to earn income. In addition, by a 4:1 margin app-based drivers want  to remain independent contractors, despite efforts by politicians to force them to become employees.
Working with app-based rideshare and delivery platforms, with their high flexibility and low barrier to entry, has proven to be a key form of work for many lower-income families needing access to income during this current pandemic.==desmog 7/16
The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)

was incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc. in

1993. The organization describes itself as “a nonprofit, nonpartisan,

nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of

African American communities.”

<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630192104/http://www.nationalbcc.org/about-us">According to their website,</a> “In essence, the NBCC

is a 501(c)3 corporation that is on the leading edge of educating and

training Black communities on the need to participate vigorously in this

great capitalistic society known as America.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s1">[1]</a>

<div>The NBCC maintains at least 140

affiliated chapters in the United States, as well as international

affiliate chapters based in Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya,

France, Botswana, Cameroon and Jamaica.[really?]</div>

The National Black Chamber of Commerce is a proponent of coal power and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking">hydraulic fracturing (fracking)</a>, as NBCC President/CEO Harry Alford revealed in a <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630193238/http://kemperproject.org/about-us-national-black-chamber-of-commerce/">column supporting the Kemper power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s2">[2]</a>

<h2>Stance on Climate Change</h2>

“Certainly the climate changes as time goes on - sometimes for the

better and sometimes for the worse.  So far, there is no pattern that

seems to be very detrimental to our earth.  There is an ebb and flow and

it takes time to see any significant detrimental trend.  It is like

Stevie Wonder wrote, 'When you believe in things you don't understand;

you suffer.  Superstition ain't the way'.” – <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630193916/http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/beyond-the-rhetoric/1623-environmental-racism-global-warming-and-climate-change">Harry Alford, co-founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s3">[3]</a>

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<h2>Funding</h2>

According to ExxonSecrets, The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) has received over<a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113"> $800,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s4">[4]</a>

NBCC's President Harry C. Alford is unapologetic about the organization's fossil fuel funding. Alford <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731231104/http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/beyond-the-rhetoric/2428-fossil-fuels-and-african-americans-it-s-family" target="_blank">states on the group's website</a> (emphasis added):

“Recently, a writer from USA Today wanted

to know if the National Black Chamber of Commerce receives money from

fossil fuel companies (coal, oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, etc.).

That is a 'no brainer'.  Of course we do and it is only natural.

 The legacy of Blacks in this nation has been tied to the miraculous

history of fossil fuel and the economic growth in communities because of

the successful harvest of fossil fuels.  Consistent with the emergence

of the Industrial Revolution and the availability of the Homestead Act

for freed slaves, fossil fuels have been our economic friend.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s14">[14]</a>

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<a target="_blank" href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/national-black-chamber-of-commerce/">Conservative Transparency details the National Black Chamber of Commerce's funding</a> as follows, with data going up to 2013: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s5">[5]</a>

<table style="width:288px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="216"><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><tbody><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;width:202px;" height="15">Donor</td><td style="width:87px;">Contribution</td></tr><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;" height="15"><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Petroleum_Institute">American Petroleum Institute</a></td><td align="right">$75,000</td></tr><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;" height="15"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust">DonorsTrust</a></td><td align="right">$25,000</td></tr><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;" height="15"><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exxon_Mobil">Exxon Mobil</a></td><td align="right">$835,000</td></tr><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;" height="15"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mywireless.org">MyWireless.org</a></td><td align="right">$150,000</td></tr><tr height="15"><td style="height:20px;" height="15">Grand Total</td><td align="right">$1,085,000</td></tr></tbody></table><h3>990 Forms</h3>

    
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<h2>Key People</h2>

<div>Harry C. Alford – President & CEO</div>

<div>Kay DeBow Alford – Co‐founder</div>

<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630212343/http://www.nationalbcc.org/resources/faqs">According to their website</a>, “The National Black Chamber of Commerce does not distribute information about our members to protect their privacy.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s7"> [7]</a>

<h2>Actions</h2>

June 13, 2016

The National Black Chamber of Commerce was listed as a creditor in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/06/13114/peabody-coal-bankruptcy-reveals-extensive-funding-climate-denial-network">Peabody Energy's 2016 bankruptcy filings</a>, reports the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD/PRWatch). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s26">[26]</a>

While the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2859772">available bankruptcy documents</a>

do not list the scale or dates of funding, they outline Peabody

Energy's financial ties to a large network of groups promoting climate

change denial. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s27">[27]</a>

Prominent individuals appearing in the documents include climate deniers <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank">Willie Soon</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank">Richard Lindzen</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank">Roy Spencer</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/10/31/richard-berman-tobacco-to-fossil-fuels" target="blank">Richard Berman</a>. The long list of organizations also includes groups such as <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity" target="blank">Americans for Prosperity</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council" target="blank">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" target="blank">CFACT</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research" target="blank">Institute for Energy Research</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/state-policy-network" target="blank">State Policy Network</a>, the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/us-chamber-commerce" target="blank">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a> and dozens more. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s28">[28]</a>

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding">The Guardian also analysed and reported on the Peabody bankruptcy findings</a>: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s29">[29]</a>

“These groups collectively are the heart

and soul of climate denial,” said Kert Davies, founder of the Climate

Investigation Center, who has spent 20 years tracking funding for

climate denial. “It’s the broadest list I have seen of one company

funding so many nodes in the denial machine.”

The company’s filings reveal funding for a range of organisations

which have fought Barack Obama’s plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions,

and denied the very existence of climate change. […]

Among Peabody’s beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon

Dioxide and Global Change has insisted – wrongly – that carbon emissions

are not a threat but “the elixir of life” while the American

Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental

Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants. Meanwhile,

Americans for Prosperity campaigns against carbon pricing. The Oklahoma

chapter was on the list. […]

“The breadth of the groups with financial

ties to Peabody is extraordinary. Thinktanks, litigation groups, climate

scientists, political organisations, dozens of organisations blocking

action on climate all receiving funding from the coal industry,” said

Nick Surgey, director of research for the Center for Media

and Democracy.

“We expected to see some denial money, but

it looks like Peabody is the treasury for a very substantial part of the

climate denial movement.”

</blockquote>

Notable organizations listed in the initial documents include:

<ul><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/60-plus-association" target="blank">60 Plus Association</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity">The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea" target="blank">American Energy Alliance</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_for_Energy_and_Economic_Growth">Alliance For Energy And Economic Growth</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/american-energy-alliance-aea" target="blank">American Energy Alliance</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity" target="blank">Americans For Prosperity</a> Oklahoma</li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation" target="blank">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rick_Berman">Berman And Company, Inc</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Consumer_Energy_Alliance">Consumer Energy Alliance</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Clean_Air_Policy">Center For Clean Air Policy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/about-center-energy-and-economic-development-ceed" target="blank">Center for Energy and Economic Development</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/center-study-carbon-dioxide-and-global-change" target="blank">Center For The Study Of Carbon Dioxide And Global Change</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coalition_for_Responsible_Regulation">Coalition for Responsible Regulation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow">Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_on_State_Taxation">Council on State Taxation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/dci-group" target="blank">DCI Group AZ, LLC</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ducks_Unlimited">Ducks Unlimited</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/energy-environment-legal-institute" target="blank">Energy & Environment Legal Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edison_Electric_Institute">Edison Electric Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/franklin-centre-government-and-public-integrity" target="blank">Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/energy-environment-legal-institute" target="blank">Free Market Environmental Law Clinic</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/frontiers-freedom" target="blank">Frontiers Of Freedom Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/george-c-marshall-institute" target="blank">George C. Marshall Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hill%26_Knowlton">Hill Knowlton Strategies</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hill%26_Knowlton">Hill Knowlton, Inc</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/hudson-institute" target="blank">Hudson Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hunton%26_Williams">Hunton & Williams</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independence_Institute">Independence Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research" target="blank">Institute For Energy Research</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-liberty" target="blank">Institute for Liberty</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Manufacturers">National Association of Manufacturers</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce" target="blank">National Black Chamber of Commerce</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Conference_of_State_Legislatures">National Conference of State Legislatures</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Mining_Association">National Mining Association</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Association_of_Regulatory_Utility_Commissioners">National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Rural_Electric_Cooperative_Association">National Rural Electric Cooperative Association</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NextGen_Energy_Council">NextGen Energy Council</a></li><li>PACE (May refer to <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Partnership_for_Affordable_Clean_Energy">Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy</a>)</li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/science-and-public-policy-institute" target="blank">Science & Public Policy Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sidley_Austin">Sidley Austin LLP</a></li><li><a href="http://desmogblog.com/state-policy-network" target="blank">State Policy Network</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Texas_Conservative_Coalition_Research_Institute">Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/us-chamber-commerce" target="blank">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/about-western-business-roundtable-wbr" target="blank">Western Business Roundtable</a></li></ul>Notable individuals named in the initial documents include the following:

<ul><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kelly_Mader">Kelly Forbes Mader</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heather_Wilson">Heather A. Wilson </a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank">Roy W. Spencer </a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank">Willie Soon</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="_blank">Richard Lindzen</a></li></ul>December 13, 2015

Writing as a guest blogger on Watts Up With That, CFACT's executive director <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160314195811/http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/13/paris-cop21-agreement-watered-down-but-still-dangerous/">Craig Rucker denounced the latest UN climate change agreement</a>: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s39">[39]</a>

<div>“This agreement will not meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth, even under the U.N.’s own computer models.</div>

<div>

“The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new UN climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth.”[connects to alford how?]
</div>

</blockquote>

November 4, 2015

The National Black Chamber of Commerce's President and CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/global-warming-proponents-cling-to-costly-farce/article_823387dc-177d-5892-ade6-881d50d8cbe8.html">Harry Alford published an article in the Philadelphia Tribune where he describes global warming as a “costly farce.”</a> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s22">[22]</a>

“[The NOAA and NASA

]have reported that there has been no global warming detected for the

last 18 years. That is over 216 months in a row that there has been no

detected global warming. At the same time, sea ice in Antarctica is

building up at record levels,” Alford writes. “

“No global warming, but millions of jobs have been erased through

adverse regulations in the name of addressing the global warming issue.

Billions of dollars, mostly tax dollars, have been spent trying to

address the same 'ghost.' Many low-income and minority communities have

greatly suffered from these onerous regulations that seem to be made

in vain.”

</blockquote>

Alford says that the “the National Black Chamber of Commerce has been

slandered for its energy positions”, but claims that “we are right and

they are wrong.”

However, climate scientists provide an explanation for this supposed hiatus in global warming. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2015/04/08/4209225.htm">According to Michael Mann at Penn State University</a>, “There

certainly has not been a hiatus in global warming — global warming

hasn't stopped, even though you still hear those contrarian talking

points.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s23">[23]</a>

An <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n4/full/nclimate2552.html">2015 analysis by US government scientists in the journal Nature and Climate Change </a>suggested

that if temporary natural fluctuations were ignored then world was

probably now warming at a rate of about 0.2°C per decade — higher than

the IPCC's longer-term average. [<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s24">24]</a>

August 25, 2015

The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) was a “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903164928/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/sponsors" target="blank">Supporting Organization</a>” at the <a href="http://desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank">Heartland Institute</a>'s “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903152735/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/" target="blank">Affordable Energy Summit 8.0</a>,” which was co-sponsored with the Libertarian Party of Nevada in Las Vegas. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/niger-innis" target="blank">Niger Innis</a>, who <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903150650/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/speakers" target="blank">serves on the NBCC's Board of Directors</a>, was a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903150650/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/speakers" target="blank">speaker</a> at the summit. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s19">[19]</a>

According to the Affordable Energy Summit's “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903153926/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/events" target="_blank">Events</a>”

webpage, the purpose of the summit was to “discuss the costs of climate

change, as well as the fiscal and environmental impact of the so-called

'Clean Power Plan.'” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s20">[20]</a> The “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903153926/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/events" target="blank">Events</a>” page of the Affordable Energy Summit's website goes on to state that the speakers at the <a href="http://www.cleanenergysummit.org/" target="blank">National Clean Energy Summit</a>,

which took place just one day earlier, “believe that evidence of

man-made global warming is enough to justify any action intended to

solve the problem, without regard for effectiveness and without any

regard for the expense.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s20">[20]</a>

<div>The Heartland Institute's James Taylor <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903164749/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/08/24/clean-energy-summit-promotes-gruesome-bird-and-bat-kills/">wrote in Forbes</a>

that, “Unlike the Clean Energy Summit, the Affordable Energy Summit

will present the full picture on energy, economics, and the

environment.” Taylor asserts that wind

and solar power initiatives are “not only prohibitively expensive, but

they produce worse environmental damage than the conventional power

Obama and Reid seek to vilify.”  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s21">[21</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s21">]</a></div>

July 28, 2015

The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150731225801/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-black-chamber-of-commerce-joins-effort-in-support-of-consumer-friendly-smart-solar-amendment-300119839.html">announced that it had joined forces with Consumers for Smart Solar effort to support the “Smart Solar Amendment, “</a> which would be a “Consumer-friendly alternative to the Shady Solar Amendment proposed by Floridians for Solar Choice.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s12">[12]</a>

NBCC submitted a brief to the Florida Supreme Court, claiming that the Solar Amendment was misleading. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s13">[13][RICO?]</a>

“As an advocate of small and minority-owned businesses, the National

Black Chamber of Commerce is concerned with the substantial, negative

impacts the Shady Solar Amendment may have on small and minority

businesses,” said Harry C. Alford, President/CEO of NBCC.

“These negative impacts – potential increases in electric service rates

and higher state and local taxes – are why we oppose the Shady Solar

Amendment.”  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s12" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">[12]</a>

</blockquote>

June, 2015

<a target="blank" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/06/26/national-black-chamber-of-commerce-joins-oil-in/204153">As reported by Media Matters</a>, The National Black Chamber of Commerce joined other organizations including <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity">Americans for Prosperity</a>, the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/beacon-hill-institute">Beacon Hill Institute</a>, and the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network">State Policy Network </a>in an op-ed campaign opposing the EPA's climate change plan. NBCC President Harry C. Alford alleged in newspapers across the U.S. that the Clean Power Plan would impose “economic hardship” on blacks and Hispanics. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s8">[8</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s8">]</a>

Seven nearly-identicall op-eds were published:

<ol><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/06/23/epa-vs-iowas-minorities/29196525/">“The EPA vs. Iowa's minorities”  – The Des Moines Register (June 23, 2015) </a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/another-voice/another-voice-clean-power-will-impose-hardships-on-minorities-20150624">“Another Voice: 'Clean power' will impose hardships on minorities” – The Buffalo News (June 24, 2015)</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/othervoices/harry-c-alford-the-epa-vs-oklahoma-s-minorities/article_ab13939a-15fd-11e5-9487-1782bb19421c.html">“Harry C. Alford: The EPA vs. Oklahoma's minorities” –  Tulsa World (June 22, 2015)</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/8610409-74/regulation-blacks-higher#axzz3e59O4OzF">“The EPA vs. Pennsylvania's minorities” –  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (June 24, 2015)</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-clean-power-plan-a-matter-of-justice/article_3e050915-b830-56fe-9aaa-dad55dcb24da.html">“Reader View: Clean Power Plan a matter of justice” –  The Santa Fe New Mexican (June 22, 2015)</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.centredaily.com/2015/06/22/4805937/their-view-minorities-to-suffer.html">“Their View: Minorities to suffer under proposed EPA emissions standards” –  Centre Daily Times (June 22, 2015)</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.charlestondailymail.com/article/20150622/DM04/150629861">“Harry C. Alford: The EPA vs. West Virginia minorities” –  Charleston Daily Mail (June 22, 2015)</a></li></ol>Media Matters also reports that of the seven reports that the NBCC

cites in the op-eds, three predate the Clean Power Plan, one was a

preliminary analysis by a mining group, and the others received funding

from fossil fuel interests.

The Op-Eds make reference to a study made by the National Black

Chamber of Commerce that has also been repeated cited across

conservative media sources. The original study, titled “Potential Impact

of Proposed EPA Regulations on Low Income Groups and Minorities”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/NBCC_FinalRev1.pdf" target="_blank"> is available here (PDF)</a>.

According to the study's abstract, “EPA is proposing new regulations, including guidelines to reduce CO2 emissions from existing fossil-fueled power plants. These regulations would have serious economic, employment,

and energy impacts at the national level and for all states, and the

impacts on low-income groups, Blacks, and Hispanics would be especially

severe. The EPA rules would: 1) Significantly reduce U.S. GDP

every year over the next two decades – over $2.3 trillion; 2) Destroy

millions of jobs; 3) More than double the cost of power and natural gas

to over $1 trillion; 4) Require the average family to pay over $1,225

more for power and gas in 2030 than in 2012.”

</blockquote>

The report was prepared by <a href="http://www.misi-net.com/index.html" target="blank">Management Information Services, Inc</a>. According to the group's website, the company <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150731232550/http://www.misi-net.com/private.html" target="blank">has a history of providing services and reports for the oil and coal industries</a> (American

Electric Power Company, Chesapeake Energy, Energy Corporation of

America, Peabody Energy, Washington Gas Company, Affordable Power

Alliance, National Coal Council, to name a few). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s15">[15]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s16">[16]</a>

Harry Alford also <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731233450/http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/black-chamber-commerce-epa-clean-air-plan-will-increase-black-poverty-23">testified at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on June 23, 2015</a> to oppose the EPA's Clean Power Plan. With reference to the NBCC

study, Alford said that “The study finds that the Clean Power Plan will

inflict severe and disproportionate economic burdens on poor families,

especially minorities.” He continued, saying “The EPA’s proposed regulation for GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from existing power plants is a slap in the face to poor and minority families.” Video below. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s17">[17]</a>

<div>Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) rebutted this view, saying that states who

have taken action on climate change have seen their economies grow:</div>

<div>“Many states, such as New York and Delaware, have already taken

action to reduce the largest emitter of carbon pollution - power plant

emissions,” Carper said. “As we will hear today, the economies of these

states continue to grow at a faster rate than the states that have yet

to put climate regulations in place. However, we need all states to do

their fair share to protect the air we breathe and stem the tide of

climate change. The EPA’s Clean Power Plan attempts to do just that.”</div>

</blockquote>

September, 2013

<div>The National Black Chamber of Commerce was a signatory to a l<a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=mJPgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=National+Black+Chamber+of+Commerce+%2B+congress+of+racial+equality&source=bl&ots=sY30xMnT6I&sig=ViJaav_gUN_gq15zNJ41aedCYww&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LTCTVamXEsmHyASu6pHgDg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=National%20Black%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20%2B%20congress%20of%20racial%20equality&f=false">etter designed by the American Energy Alliance (AEA)</a> asking Congress not to renew wind energy tax credits that would expire at the end of the year.  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s9">[9]</a></div>

<div>Other signers of the letter included:</div>

<ul><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Coalition_for_Clean_Coal_Electricity">American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute">The American Enterprise Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute">The Cato Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/center-study-carbon-dioxide-and-global-change">The Centre for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change</a></li><li>The Coalition of Affordable American Energy</li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/competitive-enterprise-institute">The Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congress_of_Racial_Equality">The Congress of Racial Equality</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FreedomWorks">Freedom Works</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">The Heartland Institute</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation">The Heritage Foundation</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations">Koch Industries</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tax_Foundation">The Tax Foundation</a></li></ul>July 16, 2009

<div>Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/bc6CgzpTu4k">had a heated exchange</a>

with Senator Boxer in a discussion on Global Warming Job Losses at a

hearing by Senator James Inhofe's Senate Environment and Public Works

Committee. Video below. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s10">[10]</a></div>

2005

The National Black Chamber of Commerce worked with the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/60-plus-association">60 Plus Association</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_For_Jobs">United for Jobs</a> as a coalition to oppose climate legislation put forward by Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), <a target="blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630213918/http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/science-denial-and-andrea-saul-%E2%80%93-romney-2012-campaign-spokesperson">as reported by Connor Gibson at Polluterwatch</a>.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s11"> [11]</a>

<h2>NBCC Contact & Location</h2>

As of June 2016, the <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160617020331/http://www.nationalbcc.org/contact-us">National Black Chamber of Commerce listed the following contact information</a> on its website: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s25">[25]</a>

400 Jenifer St NW Suite 331

Washington DC, 20015

<a href="mailto:info@nationalbcc.org">info@nationalbcc.org</a>

Phone: (202) 466-6888

Fax: (202) 466-4918

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalbcc.org">http://www.nationalbcc.org</a>

</blockquote>

<h2>Related Organizations</h2>

<ul><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.aaccnj.com/">The African-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Inc., (AACCNJ)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/60-plus-association" style="outline: 0px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">60 Plus Association</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_For_Jobs" style="outline: 0px; line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">United for Jobs</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" style="line-height: 15.3999996185303px;">Americans for Prosperity</a></li><li><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/beacon-hill-institute" style="outline: 0px; line-height: 15.3999996185303px;">Beacon Hill Institute</a></li><li><a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Policy_Network" style="outline: 0px; line-height: 15.3999996185303px;">State Policy Network</a></li><li>National Policy Alliance - <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150731234202/http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-how-dirty-energy-is-co-opting-black-lawmakers/" target="_blank">Member </a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/national-black-chamber-commerce#s18">[18]</a></li></ul><h2>Resources</h2>

<a name="s1" id="s1">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630192104/http://www.nationalbcc.org/about-us" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">About Us</a>,” National Black Chamber of Commerce. Archived June 30, 2015.

</li><li>

<a name="s2" id="s2">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630193238/http://kemperproject.org/about-us-national-black-chamber-of-commerce/" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">About The National Black Chamber of Commerce</a>,” Kemperproject.org. Archived June 30, 2015.

</li><li>

<a name="s3" id="s3" /><a name="s3" id="s3">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630193916/http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/beyond-the-rhetoric/1623-environmental-racism-global-warming-and-climate-change" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px; outline: 0px;">Environmental Racism, Global Warming and Climate Change</a>,” National Black Chamber of Commerce. Archived June 30, 2015.

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<a name="s4" id="s4" /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: National Black Chamber of Commerce</a>

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<a name="s5" id="s5">“</a><a target="_blank" href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/national-black-chamber-of-commerce/" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">National Black Chamber of Commerce</a>,” Recipient profile at Conservativetransparancy.org. Accessed June 30, 2015.

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<a name="s6" id="s6" /><a name="s6" id="s6">“</a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalbcc.org/images/Management_Bios_3.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Management Bios (PDF)</a>”, National Black Chamber of Commerce. Accessed June 30. 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

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<a name="s7" id="s7" /><a name="s7" id="s7">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630212343/http://www.nationalbcc.org/resources/faqs" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Frequently Asked Questions</a>,” National Black Chamber of Commerce. Archived June 30, 2015.

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<a name="s8" id="s8" /><a name="s8" id="s8">Denise Robbins and Andrew Seifter. “</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630220229/http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/06/26/national-black-chamber-of-commerce-joins-oil-in/204153" style="line-height: 15.3999996185303px;">National Black Chamber Of Commerce Joins Oil Industry's Op-Ed Campaign Against EPA Climate Plan</a>,” Media Matters, June 26, 2015. Archived June 30, 2015.

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<a name="s9" id="s9" /><a name="s9" id="s9">David E. Newton. </a><a target="_blank" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=mJPgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=National+Black+Chamber+of+Commerce+%2B+congress+of+racial+equality&source=bl&ots=sY30xMnT6I&sig=ViJaav_gUN_gq15zNJ41aedCYww&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LTCTVamXEsmHyASu6pHgDg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=National%20Black%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20%2B%20congress%20of%20racial%20equality&f=false" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Wind Energy: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook. (P. 74)</a>

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<a name="s10" id="s10">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/bc6CgzpTu4k" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">National Black Chamber of Commerce President Takes on Chairman Boxer Over Global Warming Job Losses</a>,” YouTube Video uploaded by user Senator Jim Inhofe. July 16, 2009.

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<a name="s11" id="s11">Connor Gibson. “</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150630213918/http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/science-denial-and-andrea-saul-%E2%80%93-romney-2012-campaign-spokesperson" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Science Denial and Andrea Saul – Romney 2012 Campaign Spokesperson</a>,” PolluterWatch, August 6, 2012.

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<a name="s12" id="s12" /><a name="s12" id="s12">(Press Release) “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731225801/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-black-chamber-of-commerce-joins-effort-in-support-of-consumer-friendly-smart-solar-amendment-300119839.html" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" target="_blank">National Black Chamber of Commerce Joins Effort in Support of Consumer-friendly Smart Solar Amendment</a>,” PRNewswire-USNewswire, July 28, 2015. Archived July 31, 2015.

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<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731225945/https://efactssc-public.flcourts.org/casedocuments/2015/780/2015-780_brief_116150.pdf" name="s13" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" id="s13">“INITIAL BRIEF OF OPPONENT NATIONAL BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE” (PDF)</a>, Case Nos. SC15-780, SC15-890. Filing # 28320521 E-Filed 06/10/2015 01:47:04 PM. Archived July 31, 2015.

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<a name="s14" id="s14">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731231104/http://www.nationalbcc.org/news/beyond-the-rhetoric/2428-fossil-fuels-and-african-americans-it-s-family" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" target="_blank">Fossil Fuels and African Americans – It’s Family!</a>” National Black Chamber of Commerce. Archived July 31, 2015.

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<a name="s15" id="s15">“</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731232550/http://www.misi-net.com/private.html" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" target="_blank">Clients: Private Industry</a>,” Management Information Services. Inc. Archived July 31, 2015.

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<a name="s16" id="s16" /><a name="s16" id="s16">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731232447/http://www.misi-net.com/trade.html" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;">Clients: Trade and Professional Associations</a>,” Management Information Services. Inc. Archived July 31, 2015.

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<a name="s17" id="s17" /><a name="s17" id="s17">Ali Meyer. “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731233450/http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/black-chamber-commerce-epa-clean-air-plan-will-increase-black-poverty-23" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" target="_blank">Black Chamber of Commerce: EPA Clean Air Plan Will Increase Black Poverty 23%, Strip 7,000,000 Black Jobs</a>,” CNSnews.com, June 24, 2015.

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<a name="s18" id="s18" /><a name="s18" id="s18">Brendan Mock. “</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731234202/http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-how-dirty-energy-is-co-opting-black-lawmakers/" style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" target="_blank">Why are black lawmakers fighting clean energy?</a>“ Grist, October 13, 2014.

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<a name="s19" id="s19" /><a name="s19" id="s19">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903150650/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/speakers" style="" target="_blank">Speakers</a>,” Affordable Energy Summit 8.0. Archived September 3, 2015.

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<a name="s20" id="s20">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903153926/http://www.affordableenergysummit.org/events" style="" target="_blank">Events</a>,” Affordable Energy Summit 8.0. Archived September 3, 2015.

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<a name="s21" id="s21" /><a name="s21" id="s21">James Taylor. “</a><a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150903164749/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/08/24/clean-energy-summit-promotes-gruesome-bird-and-bat-kills/" style="line-height: 17.6px;">What The Clean Energy Summit Doesn't Want You To Know</a>,” Forbes, August 24, 2015.  Archived September 3, 2015.

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<a name="s22" id="s22">Harry C. Alford. “</a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/global-warming-proponents-cling-to-costly-farce/article_823387dc-177d-5892-ade6-881d50d8cbe8.html" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Global warming proponents cling to costly farce</a>,” The Philadelphia Tribune, November 4, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.

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<a name="s23" id="s23">Graham Readfearn. “</a><a target="blank" href="http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2015/04/08/4209225.htm" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Global warming hiatus explained and it's not good news</a>,” ABC Environment, April 8, 2015. <a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160322202454/http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2015/04/08/4209225.htm" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Archived March 22, 201</a>6. WebCite URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6gCqfe6bV" style="line-height: 17.6px;">http://www.webcitation.org/6gCqfe6bV</a>

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<a name="s24" id="s24">“</a><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n4/full/nclimate2552.html" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change</a>,” Nature Climate Change  333–336 (2015).

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<a id="s25" name="s25">“</a><a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160617020331/http://www.nationalbcc.org/contact-us">Contact</a>,” National Black Chamber of Commerce. Archived June 16, 2016. WebCite URL: <a target="blank" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6iK1Rl4Am">http://www.webcitation.org/6iK1Rl4Am</a>

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<a id="s26" name="s26">Nick Surgey. “</a><a target="blank" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/06/13114/peabody-coal-bankruptcy-reveals-extensive-funding-climate-denial-network">Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding</a>,” PRWatch, June 13, 2016. <a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160620205541/http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/06/13114/peabody-coal-bankruptcy-reveals-extensive-funding-climate-denial-network">Archived June 20, 2016</a>. WebCite URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6iPmXjc4W">http://www.webcitation.org/6iPmXjc4W</a>

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<a id="s27" name="s27">“</a><a target="_blank" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2859772">In re: Peabody Energy Corporation, et al. Debtors</a>,”

United States Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Missouri Eastern

Division, Case 16-42529, May 27, 2016. Retrieved from DocumentCloud.

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<a id="s28" name="s28">Farron Cousins. “</a><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/13/court-documents-show-peabody-energy-funded-dozens-climate-change-denying-groups">Court Documents Show Coal Giant Peabody Energy Funded Dozens Of Climate Denial Groups</a>,” DeSmogBlog, June 13, 2016.

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<a id="s29" name="s29">Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson. “</a><a target="blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding">Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change</a>,” The Guardian, June 13, 2016. <a target="blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160620210630/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding">Archived June 20, 2016</a>. WebCite URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6iPnEUG1o">http://www.webcitation.org/6iPnEUG1o</a>

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In an Environment and Public Works hearing today, National Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford accused Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) of <a href="http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/16/black-chamber-head-slams-boxer-words-as-racial-condescending-and-god-awful/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">being a racist</a>. Alford, an opponent of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, <a href="http://twitter.com/wonkroom/status/2670814846" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">attacked Boxer</a> for being “racial” when she cited the<a href="http://fairclimateproject.org/resource/naacp-nwf-proposed-joint-resolutions-on-climate-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">NAACP’s support of clean energy and climate legislation</a>. Saying he took “offense as an African American and a veteran,” he asked why she didn’t quote an “Asian” instead:

Madam chair, that is condenscending [sic] to me. I’m the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and you’re trying to put up some other black group to pit against me. . . .

All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I don’t like it. I take — I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that. You’re quoting some other black man — why don’t you quote some other Asian or some — I mean, you’re being racial here. And I think you’re getting on a path here that’s going to explode, in the Post. . . .

We’ve been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me — an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army — that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here. This has nothing to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce! We’re talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful.

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Alford, whose organization has received at least <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-16-exxon-national-black-chamber-of-commerce-boxer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;"><strike style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">$275,000</strike> $350,000 from ExxonMobil</a>, was invited by the Republican members to testify. He purported to have “a deep understanding of small and minority-owned businesses” and spoke on behalf of the “<a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Testimony&Hearing_ID=61c08454-802a-23ad-494a-4ff5e60d89d5&Witness_ID=810a2528-6c33-4099-859d-9b001b30db17" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">black community</a>” in his opening statement. He cited a <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/bond-junk-farmers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">flawed economic analysis</a> of Waxman-Markey commissioned by his organization that estimates extreme costs for reducing our dependence on coal and oil.

As Sen. Boxer noted, it seems “relevant” that other organizations with “a deep understanding” of the “black community,” such as NAACP and <a href="http://www.100blackmen-atlanta.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">100 Black Men of Atlanta</a>, see the threat of global warming and the opportunity in a clean energy future.

Later in the hearing, Alford argued, “Let me speak for the African-American community, because I am African American.”

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On WSJ’s <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/07/16/climate-change-hearing-turns-stormy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Washington Wire</a>, Siobhan Hughes notes:

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">The debate about race appeared to leave Democrats grumpy. When Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the panel, interrupted Sen. Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat snapped: “<a href="http://twitter.com/cunctator/statuses/2670759758" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Damn it</a>. I want to be given the respect that I gave you.”

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,<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-16-exxon-national-black-chamber-of-commerce-boxer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Grist</a>‘s Kate Sheppard reports:

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5em; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">Alford conceded that addressing climate change “should be a no-brainer,” but he called for an energy plan that expands the use of oil, gas, and coal. Befuddling? Perhaps not, when you note that Alford’s group has received $350,000 from ExxonMobil since 2003 and Alford has a <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1094" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">history of offering up climate skeptic talking points</a>.

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,On <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009072916/harry-alfords-condescension" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Blog For Our Future</a>, Isaiah Poole writes:

For a man who compares seeking to organize a union through a person-to-person card-check drive to the efforts of Southern segregationists to violently suppress the black vote, a complaint that Boxer citing a resolution by the NAACP on climate change in a climate change hearing is somehow “racial” and something that would “explode” is certainly audacious. Condescending, though, is more apt.

So let’s be clear: Harry Alford does not speak for the African-American community. He does not speak for me. He speaks for a cabal of conservative obstructionists who are hell-bent on protecting the old order of oil companies being unaccountable to the environment, employers being unaccountable to their workers—and of African Americans who won’t pimp for the interests of corporate America being kept in their place.

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ting a new study by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri,” Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) today warned of the “<a href="http://bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.NewsReleases&ContentRecord_id=7a286ff0-cb66-245b-ca15-db23ecb60b8e&Region_id=&Issue_id=" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">disastrous effect</a>” clean energy legislation would have on Missouri farmers. Using data from CRA International, FAPRI found that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act “<a href="http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/outreach/publications/2009/FAPRI_MU_Report_05_09.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">will cost the average Missouri farmer</a> an additional $11,000 a year in 2020 and more than $30,000 a year by 2050.” During an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on climate legislation and the agriculture sector, Bond claimed:

Missouri farms will face tens of thousands of dollars each year in new, higher energy costs from the House cap and trade bill.

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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CRA has a <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/04/electricity_rate.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">history of flawed work</a>, <a href="http://blogs.nwf.org/nwf_view/2008/03/cra-climate-ana.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">grossly overestimating the costs</a> of compliance with pollution standards. In 2008 it did an analysis of some of the economic impacts from the Warner-Lieberman climate change bill on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute. Members of the electric utility lobbying group subsequently <a href="http://agoffsets.blogspot.com/2008/03/eei-members-call-for-more-accurate.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">had to ask for revisions</a> to assumptions used by CRA.

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the 2009 study used as the basis for the FAPRI report, CRA estimates electricity rates will rise by 16 percent by 2020. An EPA study of Waxman-Markey concluded that consumer utility spending, when the benefits of efficiency measures are included, would be <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090623/hr2454_epasummary.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">about 7% lower in 2020</a>. A separate analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that Missouri households would <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/the_climate_bill_and_your_bill.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">save $6.32 a month</a> by 2020 under Waxman-Markey.

<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24.75px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last month’s comprehensive report on the impacts of climate change by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, for example, predicted that <a href="http://www.globalchange.gov/whats-new/286-new-assessment-climate-impacts-us" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">U.S. farmers will face daunting challenges</a> in a warming world. They include increasing <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/14/global-boiling-floods/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">downpours, floods</a>, <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/global-boiling-droughts/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">droughts</a>, and crop damage from insects and diseases:

Even moderate increases in temperature will decrease yields of corn, wheat, sorghum, bean, rice, cotton and peanut crops.

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At <a href="http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/19204" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline;">Prime Buzz</a>, Dave Helling notes that for Bond to claim that cap-and-trade has a $11,000 cost, he relies on FAPRI’s “representative” 1,900-acre farm in Lafayette County, MO:

The average Missouri farm, in 2007: 269 acres.

So let’s do some math.

$11,649 in added costs, divided by 1,900 acres comes to about $6.13 per acre. Multiply that by the average Missouri farm — 269 acres — and the average annual impact for Missouri farmers comes to $1,648.97, or about $137 a month.

Bond’s estimate is seven times higher.

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Posted on Friday, April 29, 2011 11:59:35 AM by <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/%7Etcrlaf/" title="Since 2005-08-30">tcrlaf</a>

Today on The Laura Ingraham Show, Harry Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, blasted President Obama's anti-business administration in an explosive interview.

Alford, a 2008 Obama supporter, labeled the administration "Marxist" and "fanatical." "They might as well put on the brown shirts and swastikas," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/29/black_chamber_of_commerce_president_blasts_marxist_brownshirt_obama.html" target="_blank">realclearpolitics.com</a> ...

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National Black Chamber of Commerce president Harry Alford has received <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113">$425,000 from ExxonMobil</a> since 1998.

1350 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 825 Washington, DC 20036

Phone: (202) 466-6888

Fax: (202) 466-4918

Founded in 1993, the National Black Chamber of Commerce is on the "leading edge of educating and training Black communities on the need to participate vigorously in this great capitalistic society known as America." The NBCC has 95,000 black owned business members.

NBCC's position on the Kyoto Protocol cites "continued scientific uncertainties" and high economic costs associated with "radical" changes in emission policies. (http://www.nationalbcc.org/issues/default.asp?id=1303) NBCC's Public Policy Council works with the board of directors to "formulate positions on the Global Warming Treaty, Tax Reform, National Air Ambient Quality, OSHA Laws, etc." Membership on this council requires a $25,000 donation. Current Public Policy Council members include General Motors, Texaco, Caterpillar, Sprint, Daimler Chrysler, and Columbia/HCA. (http://www.nationalbcc.org/membership/categories.asp)

<h3>KEY QUOTES</h3>

"In December 1997, the 186 signatories to the Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Kyoto, Japan, to conclude an agreement that addresses concerns that increased concentration levels of greenhouse gases within the Earth's atmosphere will lead to climatic disruptions- the global warming theory. Despite continued scientific uncertainties related to this theory, the countries agreed in principle to the Kyoto Protocol-legally binding commitments by 38 industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to specific levels by specific dates. This treaty would have a significant impact on domestic and international economies, as participating nations adopt radical changes to existing energy policies in order to meet the Protocol's requirements."

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src1">NBCC website 4/04</a>

<h3>KEY DEEDS</h3>

Published a study entitled "Potential Economic Impacts on the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol on Blacks and Hispanics in the U.S."

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src1">NBCC website 4/04</a>

4 June, 1998

NBCC President Harry Alford testified before the House Small Business Committee that US ratification of the Kyoto Protocol would be detrimental to minority-owned small businesses.

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src3">Transcript, Harry Alford's testimony before House Small Business Committee 6/4/98</a>

<h3>FUNDING</h3>

National Black Chamber of Commerce has received $525,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.

$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src6">ExxonMobil 2006 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2003

$40,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src0">ExxonMobil 2003 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2004

$50,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src4">ExxonMobil 2004 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2005

$60,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src5">ExxonMobil 2005 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2007

$75,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src7">ExxonMobil 2007 Worldwide Giving Report</a>

2008

$75,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src8">EXXON FOUNDATION AND CORPORATE GIVING 2008</a>

2009

$75,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src9">ExxonMobil 2009 Worldwide Contributions and Community Investments</a>

2010

$100,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

Source: <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=113#src10">ExxonMobil 2010 Worldwide Giving Report </a>

<h3>KEY PEOPLE</h3>

<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1094">Harry C. Alford</a>

President, CEO & Co-founder