Apple, Wal-Mart Stick With Climate Pledges Despite Trump’s Pivot
"...many of the group’s members and other corporate titans supported Obama’s Clean Power Plan, or have set their own goals.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest beer-maker, also announced Tuesday that it would get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025. Nearly 90 companies have made similar pledges, according to the Sierra Club.
"We believe climate change is real and the science is well accepted,"
General Electric Co.’s Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt, wrote in an internal blog post shared by the company. "We hope that the United States continues to play a constructive role in furthering solutions to these challenges, and at GE, we will continue to lead with our technology and actions."
Mars Inc., the maker of M&M’s, committed to eliminating its emissions entirely by 2040. Andy Pharoah, vice president of corporate affairs, said that Mars is “disappointed the administration has decided to roll back climate regulations.”
‘American competitiveness’
Technology companies including Apple,
Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and
Microsoft Corp. also expressed their support for Obama’s policies.
“We believe that strong clean energy and climate policies, like the Clean Power Plan, can make renewable energy supplies more robust and address the serious threat of climate change while also supporting American competitiveness, innovation, and job growth,” the companies said in a joint statement after Trump’s order was signed.
Other companies, while stopping short of criticizing the Trump administration, said they would keep pursuing lower emissions in their own operations. Procter & Gamble, Nestle Inc., Ikea, Levi Strauss & Co. and
Best Buy Co., which all signed the 2015 pledge organized by the Obama administration, said they still intended to honor their commitments."
