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BICEP is an advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policy makers to pass meaningful energy and climate legislation that will enable a rapid transition to a low-carbon, 21st century economy that will create new jobs and stimulate economic growth while stabilizing our planet’s fragile climate.

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Hannah Jones, NIKE, Inc.“For the type of scale the world needs to see, we need not only the business leaders to do what they do best – investing in innovation and shaping market forces – we need government to play a crucial role in creating policies, legislation and regulation that will enable the scaling of transformative change.”

– Hannah Jones, VP Sustainable Business and Innovation, NIKE, Inc

 
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BICEP is an advocacy coalition of businesses committed to working with policy makers to pass meaningful energy and climate legislation that will enable a rapid transition to a low-carbon, 21st century economy that will create new jobs and stimulate economic growth while stabilizing our planet’s fragile climate.

Corporate sustainability activism is picking up pace in the U.S.

WindmillsEarlier this year, 15 major companies, including powerhouse brands Starbucks, Levi Strauss and Nike, wrote to US Congressional leaders to support American wind power production. They are part of a  new business voice emerging in Washington to reshape America's energy future along a cleaner path.

Lawmakers were considering extending the so-called "production tax credit" (PTC), a provision that has catalysed hundreds of wind projects and created thousands of new jobs across the US. "The economic benefits for consumers of wind electricity are tremendous," the firms wrote.

Though Congress failed to renew the tax credit, clouding the future of America's wind power industry, businesses are again working to revive the PTC before it expires in December.

A new business voice is emerging in Washington to reshape America's energy future along a cleaner path. With more aggressive lobbying, nitty-gritty involvement in drafting legislation and bucking the business status quo represented by the US Chamber of Commerce, these companies are engaged in Herculean effort to turn the nation away from fossil fuels embedded in the economy and politics.

Read the full blog post here.

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