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Capital Connections: Delivering connection, learning and hope Guest Speakers Angie Lane and Emmett Soldati discussed business and community leadership with CASL students in March. Courtesy Some members of Leadership Greater Concord Class of 2021 connecting safely through technology. Courtesy Published: 4/21/2021 5:36:07 PM The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce offers two leadership programs annually: Capital Area Student Leadership and Leadership Greater Concord. CASL provides capital area high school sophomores with the opportunity to learn from state and city leaders outside of a tradi...

Inside the GOP's tense fallout with the big business lobby CNN 2 hrs ago By Michael Warren, Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN © Ken Cedeno/Pool/Getty Images Rep. Claudia Tenney speaks during a hearing at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in March 2021. What started as a polite discussion about small business soon turned into a heated confrontation between unusual opponents -- Republican members of the House and their party's old friends at the US Chamber of Commerce. Republican lawmakers were blunt with the Chamber's lobbyist, Tom Sullivan, calling him on the carpet a...

Carbon pricing has had broad business support for over a decade. As a market-based mechanism, this is often the private sector’s preferred approach in addressing climate change. Consequently, carbon pricing is a convenient mechanism to measure trade association support for climate change. Support for this mechanism is not a sufficient commitment to climate action alone, and any support that is tied to displacing other tools essential to necessary emissions reductions should be rejected as being inconsistent with support for solving the climate crisis. Still, carbon pricing can be a foundati...

A Chamber spokesman would not comment on why the leaders mentioned in this story chose to leave. "While the Chamber doesn't comment on specific personnel, we are proud of our talented staff, our record low turnover, and recent new hires," the spokesman said. "Our employees are crucial to serving our members and our mission to create jobs and stimulate economic growth." He noted that the group recently hired former House of Representatives parliamentarian Tom Wickham as senior vice president for state and local policy; Kasper Zeuthen, who led communications strategy on trade and other policy m...

The Business Roundtable (BRT), a sector-diverse coalition of CEOs, moved first. The group made waves in September 2020 with the public rollout of its principles and policies for addressing climate change. While these principles are not groundbreaking, they represent a good understanding of the policy portfolio needed to address climate change, explicitly endorse a price on carbon and break away from oppositional climate positioning that was common before the results of the 2020 election. This is a notable departure from BRT’s reported neutrality on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade proposal a...