WASHINGTON: Officially state that The National Black Chamber of Commerce launched a PR campaign against the Clean Power Plan, fueled by ties to oil and gas industry, critics contend.By Katherine Bagley, Inside Climate News Aug 12, 2015 Congressman Alcee Hastings has called on the National Black Chamber of Commerce to cut fossil fuel ties.
After the Environmental Protection Agency released its groundbreaking carbon regulations last week, opponents worked to fill the airways and newspaper opinion pages with the message that the Clean Power Plan (CPP) would cost minority communities millions of jobs and increase their poverty levels by more than 25 percent.The NBCC has received more than $1 million from the ExxonMobil Foundation since 1998
