Sentences with phrase «alec meeting»

[14, 15] Another ALEC meeting featured a Fox News contributor who has claimed on the air that carbon dioxide «literally can not cause global warming.»

State legislators attending one ALEC meeting were offered a workshop touting a report by a fossil fuel - funded group that declared «like love, carbon dioxide's many splendors are seemingly endless.»

Almost too predictably, ECOS» work is sponsored by the coal fronts like ACCCE and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), both sponsors of the ALEC meeting where Easterly presented the ECOS model resolution.

ExxonMobil is listed as a top corporate sponsor of the ALEC meeting, taking place this week in Indianapolis, Indiana.

At the Denver ALEC meeting, Meckler and former Senator Jim DeMint (who was recently ousted from the Heritage Foundation's Heritage Action) presented on behalf of the Convention of States application.

Judging from the ALEC documents obtained by CMD, along so Compact for America's conspicuous absence from this month's ALEC meeting, the answer appears to be «no.»

Jeb Bush Defends Common Core At ALEC Meeting and Jeb Bush defends Common Core and Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush warn Michigan legislators against abandoning Common Core standards and JEB BUSH AND JOEL KLEIN: The Case for Common Educational Standards and Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on Common Core and Arne Duncan: Beating Up on Common Core Is «Political Silliness» and Arne Duncan Defends Common Core, Ridicules Critics and Obama quietly implements Common Core.

by Indiana State Teachers Association members and sympathizers to the Marriott where the ALEC meeting was being held.

At recent ALEC meetings, many of these companies sent their lobbyists to rub elbows with state politicians and create template laws in meetings closed to the public.

Not exact matches

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.

From wikipedia * Koch Industries Inc. was one of 14 «Vice Chairman» level sponsors at ALEC's 2010 annual meeting, which requires a $ 25,000 donation.

K12's reps at ALEC Education Task Force meetings have been its Senior VP for Government Affairs (lobbying), Bryan Flood, along with its VP for Government Affairs, Don Lee, and its Senior Director of Government Affairs, Bob Fairbank.

Teacher union activists have come to picket ALEC's yearly meetings with a self - righteous fervor that makes the true believers glow with pride.

At the annual conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this year, Dr. Steve Perry — a liberal charter school leader and passionate educational choice advocate — spoke about the poor state of K — 12 education for families of color and those in poverty and inspired the audience with his ideas on how to bridge the political divide to advance universal educational choice.

When members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) descend on Charlotte for their spring summit, Parents Across America will be there to meet them.

ALEC tries to shortcircuit all that nasty legislative stuff and put elected state officials directly in touch with corporations and other like - minded lobbyists and politicians to meet outside of the legislature and make things happen.

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.»

[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 ExxonMobil.

[6] Altria was a «Chairman» level sponsor of the 2011 ALEC Annual Conference [7]($ 50,000 in 2010), [8] a sponsor of the Louisiana Welcome Reception at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting, [9] and a «Vice Chair» level sponsor of the ALEC Annual Conference in 2016.

Central to these efforts is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through which lobbyists — such as those from API — can meet in secret with state legislators from across the country.

Seitz's opposition to the AFV resolution may make its revival at the New Orleans meeting less likely, as the ALEC board has the final say over resolutions and model legislation passed out of task forces.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Utility companies clashed with oil industry interests over electric vehicle and fuel subsidies at a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative political group, last Friday.

The Nation attributes the leak to Aliya Rahman, an Ohio - based activist who helped organize protests at ALEC's Spring Task Force meeting in Cincinnati.

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.

On the agenda of ALEC's closed - door Energy, Environment, and Agriculture task force meeting is a model «Environmental Impact Litigation Act» that would allow companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against environmental laws including the Clean Air Act.

ALEC hosed a meeting in Denver featuring Republican legislators and representatives from corporate groups including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA.

ALEC discourages impractical visionary goals that ignore economic reality, and that will not be met without serious consequences for worldwide standard of living.

ALEC — which brings corporate lobbyists and state legislators together at annual meetings for networking, seminars and voting on what it dubs «model policies» — maintains close connections with the Koch network.

In August 2011, Dr. Gerry Angevine, Senior Economist in the Institute's Global Resource Center, spoke at the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force meeting at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The meetings were part of the Spring Task Force Summit of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.

Idso presented «The Many Atmospheric Benefits of CO2» to ALEC's Energy and Environment task force at their August, 2011 meeting in New Orleans, where he told ALEC insiders that we «should let CO2 rise unrestricted, without government intervention» since «CO2 is definitely not a pollutant.»

While over 100 mainstream American companies have fled the controversial organization, a 2017 Annual Meeting registration list shows that ALEC is still chock full of fossil fuel companies.

Denver's massive Blue Bear will be peering in the windows as U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos headlines the 44th American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Annual Meeting being held at the Colorado Convention Center's Hyatt Regency Hotel July 19 - 21.

The first post-presidential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this week in Washington, DC made clear that starry - eyed conservative state legislators had visions of more power dancing in their heads.

ALEC has three model proposals and has held workshops at almost every meeting including its most recent meeting in Denver as Rep. Chris Taylor reported.

Note: There was a Presentation by Michael Terrell of Google on the IT sector's renewable energy goals within the meeting Energy Subcommittee (of the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force) on July 30, 2014 at the ALEC annual meeting.

The resolution met public pushback this week from several prominent business members of ALEC, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Honeywell, UPS and the Edison Electric Institute.

This week in Denver, July 19 - 21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA, to vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter «model» bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.

[6] UP was also a sponsor of the Louisiana Welcome Reception at the 2011 ALEC Annual Meeting.

As part of the push for the ALEC fracking bill passed in Colorado, Bo Heath arranged for Colorado ex-governor Bill Ritter to fly down to North Carolina to meet with George Howard and the MEC.

At the end of any given year, the ALEC bill would allow states to bank any extra energy generated from RECs beyond what the RPS law requires and use them to meet RPS targets for the following year.

ALEC's annual meeting is taking place in Chicago this week, just as Common Cause and CMD have filed a complaint to the IRS over ALEC's corporate - funded «Scholarships» for state legislators — ALEC is a tax exempt non-profit despite their mission of facilitating an exchange of company - crafted laws with state legislators in closed - door meetings.

Bo Heath has longstanding ties to ALEC, and has attended ALEC annual meetings.

ExxonMobil is among the top sponsors of ALEC's 2015 annual meeting, and Exxon's Cynthia Bergman remains on ALEC's corporate board.

Below are financial underwriters of ALEC's meeting, taking place at one of the largest resorts on the West Coast, along with the rates from another document obtained by CMD, ranging from $ 5,000 to $ 100,000.

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.

In August 2011, Ferguson spoke on «Benefit Analysis of CO2» [1](previously known as «Warming Up to Climate Change: The Many Benefits of Increased Atmospheric CO2» [2]-RRB- at the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force meeting at the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Annual Mmeeting at the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Annual MeetingMeeting.

The John Locke Foundation's Daren Bakst, of their Research Division, gave a presentation to the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at ALEC's 2010 annual meeting.

At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) 2015 annual meeting in San Diego, California, dirty energy companies and their supporters — including ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Duke Energy — continue to dominate the funding of activities, according to a list of conference sponsors obtained jointly by the Center for Media and Democracy and Greenpeace.