Another business group, much less known than the US Chamber, has formed a coalition of some truly strange bedfellows. The US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) has formed in support of the seriously weakened Waxman-Markey climate legislation (also known as ACESA). This Frankenstein association marries giant corporate powers (Dow, DuPont, GE, GM, Ford, BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips PG&E, Duke Energy, NRG, etc.) with long-time icons of the environmental movement, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and the Nature Conservancy.

This unsavory alliance highlights a seismic fault line developing within the ranks of our most trusted environmental organizations. Standing apart from the greens listed above, (specifically on the issue of implementing cap-and-trade provisions in this legislation) are Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and Friends of the Earth. These groups are displeased with the compromises in drafting this law that have moved too far from the measures required by science toward accommodation of corporate energy interests.

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