Sentences with phrase «alec also»

Subsidies ALEC also claims that solar power receives substantially more subsidies than conventional power sources.

ALEC also tries to get out of claims that it «opposes legislative or regulatory action that addresses climate change,» even though it's been clearly, and firmly, opposed to the EPA's clean power plan.

ALEC also offers a document titled «EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck: Strategies for State Legislators» that «outlines best practices for state legislators (including following the many states that are considering resolutions in 2011 to call for Congress to slow and stop this regulatory onslaught [by the EPA]-RRB-.»

ALEC also seeks to advance the privatization of public institutions such as public education, public transportation, public utilities, state lotteries, and other municipal and state services.

ALEC also said early this week an independent audit is to be conducted by an Australian Government Approved Auditor and pending approval, the operational start - up of the facility will be monitored to ensure ESCAS compliance.

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ALEC was also at the heart of the battle between Wisconsin Gov. Walker and collective bargaining including the Wisconsin state union workers back in 2011.

Then also that he would have some dreamy smart alec comment about it and we'd all giggle.

Volker was also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

ALEC was also named in the American Petroleum Institute ’s

They also want records of Exxon's association with organizations such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and The Heartland Institute, which have a history of climate skepticism and pushback against climate regulations.

ALEC, the Heartland Institute, and the Beacon Hill Institute all have received money from foundations associated with Charles and David Koch, and each are also part of the State Policy Network, an umbrella group of right - wing organizations that claim adherence to the free market.

SPN was also a «Chairman» level sponsor of ALEC's 2011 Annual Conference and ALEC is an Associate Member of SPN.

The iPhone 5s range also includes ALEC (RRP $ 44.95) a genuine leather flip case.

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.

ALEC corporations spend tens of thousands of dollars each year for such access to lawmakers, and K12 has also paid many thousands of dollars to underwrite some of ALEC's docket of events for legislators and lobbyists.

ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

It recently got a seat, for example, on the corporate board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where for years it has also paid for a seat and vote on ALEC's «Education and Workforce Development» Task Force, which advances a «cash for kids» lobbying agenda.

More analysis is available below and also at ALEC Exposed's sister sites, PRWatch and SourceWatch.

ALEC is also the force behind the increased use of «preemption» laws designed to strip local governments of their power to ban fracking, pass minimum wage hikes, and enact earned sick day laws.

He also serves on NCSL's State Policy and Research for Early Education (SPREE) Working Group as well as a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

He's a major funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and he has also bankrolled the Club for Growth.

ALEC isn't only involved in agriculture; they are also proponents of corporate education, and they have been widely credited with crafting legislation that is crippling public education in Oklahoma and across the country.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

Kevin Murphy, a public affairs executive, also represented Exxon on ALEC's corporate («Private Enterprise») board in 2011.

In Colorado, alarm and concern is quickly spreading with revelations that Glenn Vaad, appointed by Governor Hickenlooper as one of three Public Utilities Commissioners, is also a former high ranking member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

The case is strengthened by an October 1987 ALEC directory also available via the Tobacco Documents that says, «The Madison Group is chaired by Mrs. Constance Heckman [now Constance Campanella, founder of the lobbying firm Stateside Associates], Executive Director of ALEC...» (PDF, p. 3).

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.»

While serving as a Colorado state representative, unknown to most of his constituents, Glenn Vaad was also serving as the Chair of ALEC's Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development task force during 2011 and 2012.

The NCRP report also makes abundantly clear that ALEC's role is to facilitate what most would define as lobbying.

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.

Whistle blower documents provided to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), expose that former Rep. Glenn Vaad also received an ALEC «State Legislator of the Year» Award in 2012.

Titled, the «Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act,» H.B. 1551 is also essentially a copycat of Tennessee's version of the ALEC model bill — it failed to pass.

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.

Many of ACSH's funders also have ties to the controversial ALEC, which CMD has called a «corporate bill mill.»

The website also provides tools to track politicians, corporations, and bills with ties to ALEC.

British Petroleum (BP) also joined the list of companies leaving ALEC's ranks, severing ties in May 2015.

AFPM includes members from both Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, who are also represented on ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Council.

ALEC's resolution also notes that the United States currently depends on foreign imports for more than half of its petroleum usage and the nation's dependence on overseas oil has created difficult geopolitical relationships with potentially damaging consequences for our national security.

The predecessor to SPN, the Madison Group, was introduced by ALEC in the 1980s through the Heritage Foundation, where ALEC was also housed.

ALEC will continue to monitor the issue and support the use of sound science to guide policy, but ALEC will also incorporate economic and political realism.

«ALEC has also been accused of promoting model policy that advocates for the teaching of «climate denial» in schools.

Seth Heald, chair of the Seirra Club Virginia Chapter, notes that corporations «simply can not be serious about reducing carbon pollution and addressing climate change while also supporting ALEC.»

TPPF is also a member of several task forces within the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Heartland has also worked with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to pass laws in several states that force schools to misrepresent climate change science to students.

Bradley also provided millions more to ALEC's sister group the State Policy Network of «think tanks» in the states.

Following Biddulph's letter, Mark Meckler of Citizens for Self - Governance also petitioned ALEC to bounce Dranias.

Koch Industries uses their web of front groups and think tanks including IER and AEA, as well as ALEC to also fight EPA standards and restrict renewable energy development.

SPN's predecessor, the Madison Group, was launched by ALEC in the 1980s at the Heritage Foundation, where ALEC was also housed.

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

In February, State Sen. Bill Seitz, also a Republican and ALEC task force member, filed the separate Senate Bill 58 to «review and possibly modify» the RPS law.