Big Business wants bigger voice in energy policy debate

By Jim Snyder
June 13, 2007

Two broad-based business groups are angling to play a larger role in shaping the outcome of the debate over energy policy currently consuming Congress.

One is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business behemoth that spent more than $45 million on lobbying last year. It announced yesterday it was creating a side group that would spend millions of dollars more on energy policy in particular, revising a model the Chamber used in a successful campaign to change tort laws.