Are NAM and CSR Incompatible?
Via ThinkProgress, the news that Duke Energy is quitting the National Association of Manufacturers because of differences over climate change policy, is interesting. As the website reports, NAM--historically one of the most powerful corporate lobbying groups-- recently protested the EPA's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and "has also funded climate change denier groups and heavily lobbied against any efforts to curb emissions."
Duke is a member of the United States Climate Action Partnership, a group that has staked out a more progressive position on climate change.
Its decision to withdraw from NAM is interesting because a case can be made--and almost certainly will be made--that any company that belongs to a climate change denial organization forfeits the right to credibly claim that it is a responsible corporate citizen.
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