Chamber Launches Web site on Energy and Environment.Highlights Progress by Businesses on Earth Day WASHINGTON Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- Leading up to Earth Day, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest not-for-profit federation of businesses, representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations in the United States. As of 2003, the chamber was comprised of 3000 state and local chambers and 830 business associations. highlighted the significant role business has played in cleaning the nation's environment, stressing that a strong economy is critical to environmental protection, and launched a Web site to help educate businesses and the general public about ways to help protect the environment. "Economic growth and environmental progress are not incompatible incompatible adj. 1) inconsistent. 2) unmatching. 3) unable to live together as husband and wife due to irreconcilable differences. In no-fault divorce states, if one of the spouses desires to end the marriage, that fact proves incompatibility, and a divorce pursuits," said William William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack Kovacs, Chamber vice president of environmental policy. "A strong economy gives us the resources to protect our environment." The air and water are cleaner today than on any previous Earth Day, due to technological innovations and tremendous gains in efficiency achieved by business, the Chamber noted. With the right regulatory, legislative, and economic policies in place, business can continue to create the capital and technology needed for better environmental protection. "Business will reduce its rate of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emissions by approximately 36 percent per unit of GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. with expected technological and efficiency improvements, in the next 20 years," Kovacs added. The Chamber's new Web site is designed to raise conservation consciousness and show the contributions that the business community has made in protecting the environment. The Web site contains conservation tips for the road and home; environmental success stories from member businesses; and stresses that conservation is an important part of a comprehensive National Energy Policy which is vital for economic and national security. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region. The Chamber's Earth Day Web site can be viewed at: www.myenergypolicy.com. |
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