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Jun 25, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Lindsay Cates |Steve Lutes |Marty Durbin |Thaddeus Swanek
Vice President, Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, U.S. Chamber of CommerceChallenges: Businesses of all sizes are being impacted by the growing number of over $1 billion extreme weather events and natural disasters. Employees cannot get to work if the highway washes out, respond to customers if the electricity goes out, or meet basic needs for their families without clean drinking water and adequate sanitation.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Lindsay Cates |Steve Lutes |Marty Durbin |Thaddeus Swanek
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Every $1 spent on climate resilience and preparedness saves communities $13 in damages, cleanup costs and economic impact, according to a new economic study by Allstate, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The study, “The Preparedness Payoff,” models 25 disaster scenarios ranging in damage and cleanup costs from $1 billion to $130 billion in communities across the country.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Martin Durbin |Allison Dembeck |Chuck Chaitovitz |Marty Durbin
Vice President, Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, U.S. Chamber of Commerce This Earth Day, let’s recognize that protecting the environment and advancing sustainability requires a critical partnership between government and the private sector.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Martin Durbin |Allison Dembeck |Chuck Chaitovitz |Marty Durbin
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Chuck Chaitovitz, Vice President of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today released the following statement following EPA's final rule on the CERCLA hazardous substance designation of PFOA and PFOS: “It is troubling that the EPA selected an approach to the cleanup of legacy PFOA and PFOS that is less effective than other approaches available to the agency.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
Download Dear Chairmen Carper and Graves and Ranking Members Capito and Larsen: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce looks forward to supporting the efforts of your committees in the water and water infrastructure realms. The impacts of our changing climate manifest as water challenges — too much, too little, or of poor quality. We are confident that solutions can be provided with bipartisan support.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
Download Dear Chairs McMorris Rodgers and Carter and Rankings Member Pallone and Tonko: The undersigned organizations strongly support the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act and the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act, and we encourage your committees to advance these bills by holding hearings and reporting them favorably. Many businesses and organizations recognize that moving toward a circular economy is critical to meeting ambitious sustainability goals.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
Download To Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges you to vote in favor of H.R. 7023, the "Nationwide Permitting Improvement Act," andwill consider including votes related to this legislation in our How They Voted congressional scorecard.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
Download Dear Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Capito: Thank you for holding tomorrow’s hearing entitled “Examining PFAS as Hazardous Substances” and for continuing your engagement on a very complex and challenging issue for communities and companies across the U.S. We support accelerating effective and appropriate cleanup of PFAS in the environment.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
Download Dear Chairs Stabenow and Thompson and Ranking Members Boozman and Scott: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce looks forward to supporting the important work of your Committees to complete reauthorization of needed agriculture and nutrition programs this year, and encourage you to include several important priorities as you craft the 2024 Farm Bill.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
uschamber.com | Chuck Chaitovitz |Allison Dembeck |Marty Durbin |Martin Durbin
To the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports H.R. 886, the “Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act,” which would enable the United States and American businesses to address global marine debris and plastic waste challenges. The Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act would: · Enable the Department of Commerce to identify shared federal resources to implement and increase the scale of viable projects.
