Tag: ALEC
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Why 5 Utilities Quietly Dumped ALEC and Others Won’t Even Speak of The Lobbying Group
Some of the nation’s largest utilities have quietly distanced themselves from the secretive, climate-denying lobbying group…
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ALEC Attacks EPA’s Carbon Pollution Standards at December Summit
By Aliya Haq This week, the polluter-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its annual meeting in D.C., and the obstruction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) progress to reduce carbon pollution is front and center on its Environment Task Force agenda. ALEC conferences create a space for corporations and conservative lawmakers to…
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Not the Tea Party the Koch Brothers Had in Mind
Last week the Tea Party Patriots helped push a proposal through Georgia’s Public Service Commission that requires the state’s largest electric utility to more than double the amount of solar power…
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ALEC’s Ag-Gag Laws Threaten Factory Farm Whistleblowers with Criminal Charges
Muckrakers and activists have been working to expose the brutality of industrialized meat production since Upton Sinclair’s writing of The Jungle in 1906. But an ALEC model bill known as …
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Halliburton and ALEC Push Industry-Friendly Fracking Legislation in North Carolina
North Carolina senators are taking an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) style approach in their efforts to push through legislation that allows oil companies a loophole in regulations requiring …