Sentences with phrase «alec policies»

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On Tuesday, The Guardian showed how ALEC is facing a funding crisis after losing a number of members due to its policy on gun laws.

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 repealing them.

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.

Chevron remains a member of many of the same anti-climate policy lobbying groups as Exxon, including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

ALEC has long attacked climate and science policy stating in 2011 that, «Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring, non-toxic and beneficial gas, and it poses no direct threat to public health».

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

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.

Mr. Head testified alongside members of the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute (see more on each, below), all of which are members of ALEC and SPN.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

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.

ALEC, the thirty - eight - year - old conservative nonprofit, similarly coordinates a fifty - state strategy for right - wing policy.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

«Parent Trigger» was adopted by the ALEC Education Task Force at the 2010 States & Nation Policy Summit, December 3, 2010.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

Though she gave few other policy specifics, other ALEC speakers did.

Those politicians who fall for the «ALEC treatment» become puppets who push the conservative, right - wing group's education policies and proposals back home — legislation designed to benefit ALEC's wealthy benefactors and turn a profit on the backs of students without any regard for their educational wellbeing.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

Look, many in the country see and understand the connection between conservative organizations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and Republican privatization policies.

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).

In 2008, the Show - Me Institute released a «policy study» titled «The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,» and that same year, Jones introduced a tuition tax credit bill titled the «Children's Education Freedom Act,» which reflected the ALEC «Great Schools Tax Credit Act.»

A passel of interlinked right - wing groups that fund and participate in ALEC, including the Koch's astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, the DeVos family's American Federation for Children, and the State Policy Network's Goldwater Institute joined the push to expand the state's voucher program (even though its small scale voucher plan was not popular with parents and not yet full.)

«ALEC,... coordinates a fifty - state strategy for right - wing policy.

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»

While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap - and - trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

Rightwing lobby group appealing to major donors that have abandoned it following criticism of ALEC's policy on gun laws

«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 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.»

Welcome to the murky world of ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), the State Policy Network (SPN), and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity (AFP)-- all of which are financially aided by the Kochs» riches along with funding from some of their fellow billionaire travelers.

It quotes ALEC materials saying, «The cornerstone of the ALEC program is the forum it provides for the private sector [read: for - profit corporations] to work in a one - on - one relationship with state legislators to develop public policies that are pro-growth, pro-business and pro-freedom.»

«[B] ecause winning the public policy debate will continue to have a tremendous positive effect on the «bottom line» of your company,» Brunelli tells Malmgren (and, presumably, ALEC's other corporate funders).

Exxon said it cut off funding for some groups opposed to climate change in 2005, but the oil giant continued to support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- groups that have lobbied against climate - related government policies.

The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN)-- which was exposed recently in a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) report, followed by the release of funding proposals detailing its coordination by The Guardian — was «launched by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC... and housed in the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.»

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

Over a 17 - year period, Exxon and its foundation spent more than $ 1.7 million to finance lobbying activity by ALEC on legislation and public policies that benefit the corporation, while improperly and illegally claiming a tax deduction for those expenditures.

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.

When contacted to discuss the company's ALEC membership and support, a Google spokesperson declined to comment specifically about ALEC, but did say that it is important for Google to be a part of policy discussions on technology.

Repeated efforts to speak with an ALEC representative or get a statement from the organization about policy issues went unanswered.

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.

for consideration at ALEC's Spring Policy Summit in the Western Michigan city of Grand Rapids last week.

«We continually assess our engagements with policy and advocacy organizations and based on our most recent assessment, we have determined that we can effectively pursue policy matters of current interest to BP without renewing our membership in ALEC,» the spokesman said.

The group's senior fellow for environmental policy even took credit for persuading «most of ALEC's state legislators and corporate members to push for a repeal of laws requiring more solar and wind power use on the basis of economics.»

«New Report Reveals the Dangerous Influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Climate Policy in Virginia,» eNews Park Forest, March 24, 2016.

Despite adjusting its tone, ALEC has not relented in its promotion of policies that perpetuate the use of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.

E-cig companies have been making the rounds at groups like ACSH as well as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN) in search of third parties to help promote its product and derail regulation.

Chevron sponsored a workshop as part of ALEC's policy summit in Washington, D.C. that covered how the law «often negatively impacts and stifles energy development of all kinds,» according to a planning document (PDF).

After Google parted ways with ALEC due to its inaction on climate change, the group refuted allegations that it denies climate change, saying: «ALEC recognizes that climate change is an important issue,» and «no ALEC model policy denies climate change.»

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.

The report, «AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC) EXPOSED: Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia» (PDF) details how ALEC and its political allies have worked to combat state climate and clean energy policy.

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