Disney, the Gap and Pepsi urged to quit US Chamber of Commerce

Letter from pressure groups says the trade body's campaigning against climate change legislation and for tobacco products is at odds with companies' stance

Disney, the Gap and Pepsi are being pressured to quit the US Chamber of Commerce, America's largest lobby group, amid criticism of its big-money efforts to fight climate change legislation and promote tobacco products.

A coalition of pressure groups including Action on Smoking and Health, Greenpeace, Public Citizen and the Sierra Club have written to the CEOs of the three companies asking them to stop funding the powerful business group.