PG&E quitting U.S. Chamber over climate change views

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California utility company PG&E Corp said it is quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in protest over the business lobby group’s “extreme” position on climate change.

The Chamber has pushed for public hearings to challenge the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, a move PG&E Chief Executive Peter Darbee singled out as part of the group’s “dismaying” approach to the issue in a recent letter to the Chamber.

“An intellectually honest argument over the best policy response to the challenges of climate change is one thing; disingenuous attempts to diminish or distort the reality of these challenges is quite another,” Darbee wrote, according to PG&E’s Next 100 blog, www.next100.com/, on Tuesday

Reuters