POLITICO's The Long Game Newsletter · August 9, 2022
IRA SCORECARD — Salesforce Inc., Constellation Energy Corp., and Walmart Inc.
Those are the companies that spoke up loudest — in news outlets and on LinkedIn and Twitter — for the Inflation Reduction Act, according to a tally by the nonprofit groups ClimateVoice and InfluenceMap.
Other big corporations chimed in, too: BP PLC, Shell PLC, Ford Motor Co., Unilever PLC and more than 30 others put out a statement Friday in support of the bill. And power companies quietly put pressure on Manchin, as our Zack Colman, Josh Siegel and Kelsey Tamborrino reported.
Did that offset the pushback from the big industry groups like Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers? ClimateVoice says it did.
“The scuttlebutt I’ve heard from D.C. insiders is that the business voice really mattered here,” said Bill Weihl, ClimateVoice’s founder and executive director. “The problem in the past has been that by far the loudest business voice has been saying no on climate policy. Having big companies speak for climate policy helps shift that a lot. It’s no longer ‘business hates this.'”