Will Engineering Giants Be the Next to Embrace Climate Concerns?
The winds of change are blowing, and they’re affecting more than just wind turbines. My colleague Kirsten Korosec has been covering the defection of companies from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its anti-global warming stance, which started with utilities like Exelon, PNM and PG&E and recently grew to include apparel giant Nike. Such defections, along with others (like Duke Energy’s departure from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity) are a growing trend. Large corporations seem to be increasingly in support of strong action to limit emissions. So who’s next? It could actually turn out to be a group of companies with close ties to oil and gas, the international engineering industry. That includes a multi-billion dollar firms like…
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