By Daily Mail Reporter
Former Vice President Al Gore has come under fire for allegedly using his position to influence Apple's policy on global warming.
The National Centre for Public Policy Research believes Gore, who is an Apple board member, may have been influential in the company's decision to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2009.
Several companies terminated their long-term links with the Chamber of Commerce after the trade group opposed the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill and Environment Protection Agency regulation of carbon emissions.
The bill proposed a cap and trade system, under which the government would set a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases that could be emitted nationally.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106306/Al-Gore-accused-using-role-Apple-influence-global-warming-policy.html#ixzz1na4CFaSn
Former Vice President Al Gore has come under fire for allegedly using his position to influence Apple's policy on global warming.
The National Centre for Public Policy Research believes Gore, who is an Apple board member, may have been influential in the company's decision to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in 2009.
Several companies terminated their long-term links with the Chamber of Commerce after the trade group opposed the Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill and Environment Protection Agency regulation of carbon emissions.
The bill proposed a cap and trade system, under which the government would set a limit on the total amount of greenhouse gases that could be emitted nationally.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106306/Al-Gore-accused-using-role-Apple-influence-global-warming-policy.html#ixzz1na4CFaSn
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