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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which is centrally involved with pushing environmentally destructive legislation on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, today complained that «Earth Day has been a largely somber event» when it should be «a celebration of the wonderful achievements humankind has made in cleaning and greening the planet,» wrote Todd Wynn, ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Director.

This would allow companies like Monsanto (indirectly represented in ALEC through its membership in CropLife America, an agrochemical front group and ALEC energy task force member) to bottleneck regulations of their GMO seeds and products at the state government level and stop community resistance to their abusive patent laws and enforcement through lawsuits.

On the agenda during the San Diego closed - door meeting of the ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force are numerous new attempts to undermine efforts to tackle climate change.

There are other problems in the ALEC energy analysis.

ALEC Energy, the renewable energy arm of ALEC Engineering and Contracting LLC, has signed off on a contract to develop a 6.5 MW rooftop solar plant with Emaar Development for the Dubai Hills Mall project which is currently under construction.

Not exact matches

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingEnergy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingenergy standards rather than repealing them.

Until Wednesday, Ohio remained the last state to face ALEC's anti-clean energy efforts this year.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which plays a huge role in funding Republican candidates, has made opposing net metering and clean energy policies a foundation of its policies.

One high ALEC priority aims to repeal State renewable energy legislation.

Despite this year's overwhelming failure, ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, most likely won't slow their attacks on renewable energy any timeEnergy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, most likely won't slow their attacks on renewable energy any timeenergy any time soon.

ALEC's new «Market Power Renewables Act» and «Renewable Energy Credit Act» is another tactic to attack renewable energy standards and provide hollow replaceEnergy Credit Act» is another tactic to attack renewable energy standards and provide hollow replaceenergy standards and provide hollow replacements.

Many publicly - traded corporations are members of ALEC, which crafts legislation that challenges renewable energy regulations and undermines the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

Heartland has long been a paying member of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force along with Koch, Exxon and others.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteenergy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteEnergy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteEnergy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

Even more extraordinary is ALEC's push this year to repeal Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require that utility companies provide a certain amount of their total energy from renewable sources like wind.

«I don't believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy,» he scoffs, and the film's success lies in how much pleasure it takes in undermining this self - important smart alec, physically, mentally and spiritually.

While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

Ohio Senator Bill Seitz is a member of ALEC's board of directors who has compared renewable energy standard policies to «Joseph Stalin's five year plan»

At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona in December 2015, the Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force heard a presentation on «State and Federal Subsidies for Electric Vehicles,» then voted on a resolution to discourage states from providing subsidies, the «Resolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric Vehicles.»

In 2014, Ohio Senator Bill Seitz denied that SB 310, which froze the state's clean energy standards through 2016, was influenced by ALEC.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the ColoraEnergy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Coloraenergy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

«There is a clear conflict of interest — Glenn Vaad was a high - ranking representative of a corporate lobbying group that is coordinating a national attack on clean energy,» explains Gabe Elsner, Executive Director for the Energy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio Stanenergy,» explains Gabe Elsner, Executive Director for the Energy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio StanEnergy and Policy Institute, «In the past year, ALEC's utility and fossil fuel members lobbied lawmakers in at least 15 states to introduce legislation repealing Renewable Energy Portfolio StanEnergy Portfolio Standards.

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

Payments from Xcel Energy to EEI along with payments from EEI to ALEC are documented on the Friends of the Colorado PUC website.

However, ALEC has since pointed to passage of SB 310 as one of the few signs of success for its campaign against renewable energy standards.

Further fueling these conflict of interest charges, Xcel Energy has been a corporate funder of ALEC in the past and contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to EEI.

An October 2012 report entitled «Buying Influence» by Common Cause indicates that Colorado PUC nominee Glenn Vaad received ALEC «scholarships» in 2006, 2007 and 2008, including money from Xcel Energy.

[2] AEP President, Nicholas K. Akins, spoke on «A Smarter Approach to Improving our Environment: Addressing the Costs of Proposed EPA Regulations on Energy Affordability,» sponsored by the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting.

Seitz also spoke on a panel on «Renewable energy mandates reform» at ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting, which was sponsored by AEP, Duke Energy, and Exxonenergy mandates reform» at ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting, which was sponsored by AEP, Duke Energy, and ExxonEnergy, and ExxonMobil.

Large utilities like Duke Energy and Dominion are and have been members of ALEC.

Now ALEC is launching a new wave of attacks on clean energy policies like solar net metering.

In response to letters from Greenpeace to nine major utilities questioning their support of ALEC, a representative of MidAmerican Energy Holdings and its subsidiaries NV Energy and PacifiCorp said they do not and will not support ALEC efforts, Greenpeace researcher Connor Gibson reported.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a matchmaking service that connects business interests with conservative lawmakers, drove more than 70 bills in 37 states last year that would have slowed the progress of greentech and clean energy.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

According to Elsner, ALEC's 2014 efforts in energy and environment beyond the three efforts against solar include the following:

Today, the corporate polluter members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force include representatives from American Electric Power, the Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, to name several.

The bill was adopted by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, today known as the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at ALEC's Spring Task Force Summit on May 5, 2000 — it was then approved by the full ALEC Board of Directors in June of 2000.

Despite the divides, Simmons remained hopeful that ALEC members would endorse the organization's «free market» mission with a broad statement against energy subsidies.

Peabody Energy is an Private Enterprise Board member, was 2011 winner of ALEC's Private Sector Member of the Year Award, and served as a «Chairman» level sponsor of 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $ 50,000.

While ALEC is secretive in its operations, leaked internal documents show that coal companies like Peabody Energy and their trade associations are bankrolling the group.

The Washington Times also happens to be closely tied to ALEC — a Koch Brothers - funded organization that promotes climate change denialism and subverts efforts to incentivize renewable energy.

Some corporations ALEC has worked with include ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Energy, and Reynolds Tobacco.

The following is taken from ALEC's model bill for «Energy Principles,» introduced January 1, 2002 and last amended January 12, 2017.

The boom in home solar energy generation — there has been a 60 percent increase in domestic solar installations in the past year — is a threat to ALEC's dirty energy producing members, so they have a bill to amend so - called net metering laws that allow homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the grid.

For many years, ALEC has worked to challenge the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions, and to undermine renewable energy more generally, arguing instead that market forces should dictate our sources of energy.

As reported by the Center for Media and Democracy's (CMD) PR Watch, ALEC's 2015 annual meeting was supported primarily by energy companies and their supporters.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD / PRWatch) reports the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was named as a creditor in Peabody Energy's recent bankruptcy filings.