Paris Pullout Pits Chamber Against Some of Its Biggest Members

Lee Drutman was quoted in a Bloomberg Politics article about how some member corporations are at odds with the Chamber of Commerce over the decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords: 

Companies may differ with the Chamber on climate change, but agree on taxes or labor issues, said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow in the program on political reform at New America, a Washington research organization. Still, they face the risk of customer blowback.

"Any company with a consumer-facing brand has to worry about its reputation," Drutman said in a phone interview. “If it’s on the wrong side of a political issue that its customer base is passionate about, it could find itself losing a lot of customers."