Sentences with phrase «alec resolution»

The new ALEC resolution was crafted with help from lobbyists at Edison Electric Institute, the primary trade association for Duke and most other large U.S. utility companies.

He also presented on the «Erosion of Intellectual Property» and introduced the «ALEC Resolution to Counter Rogue Internet Sites» model policy at the International Relations Task Force Meeting at the 2011 meeting.

Updated on Dec. 6 to include reference to a letter from the Edison Electric Institute, NRECA, Chevron, Honeywell and UPS expressing concerns about the ALEC resolution.

Since January, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Wyoming, Georgia, and South Dakota have all considered «model legislation» related to the ALEC resolutions on CO2.

Not exact matches

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.

Pass a resolution, as ALEC did, expressing outrage atthat.

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 Vehiclresolution to discourage states from providing subsidies, the «Resolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric VehiclResolution Regarding Subsidies for Electric Vehicles.»

It's unknown how EEI or individual utility members of ALEC responded to the anti-EV resolution, though Ford, which has a growing interest in electric vehicles, deserted ALEC a few months later.

ALEC has issued «model legislation» or resolutions denying climate change, promoting climate change denial in schools, and supporting offshore drilling, among other bills.

In 2010, the South Dakota Legislative Assembly passed House Concurrent Resolution 1009, a non-binding resolution introduced by 33 members of the House of Representatives and 6 members of the Senate, 39 in total, and 12 of whom are current memberResolution 1009, a non-binding resolution introduced by 33 members of the House of Representatives and 6 members of the Senate, 39 in total, and 12 of whom are current memberresolution introduced by 33 members of the House of Representatives and 6 members of the Senate, 39 in total, and 12 of whom are current members of ALEC.

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated the 2015 alternative fuel vehicle resolution was defeated by the ALEC board.

Opponents of the resolution expected the Simmons amendment to be a poison pill, as it would include renewable fuel subsidies and oil industry tax breaks important to many ALEC legislators.

Duke did not respond to requests for comment on ALEC, but EEI confirmed it worked against the resolution.

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.

Explaining the nature and origins of the project, CMD wrote,» [CMD] unveiled a trove of over 800 «model» bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

ALEC drafted a resolution (PDF) designed to limit federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

ALEC orchestrated opposition against EPA regulations on greenhouse gasses with their model legislation, «Resolution in Opposition to EPA's Plan to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act.»

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.

This decision is in direct opposition to ALEC's Resolution in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was approved earlier this month by the ALEC Legislative Board of Directors.

ALEC Drafted a resolution (PDF) resisting the EPA's efforts to classify coal ash as a hazardous material.

ALEC's resolution urges Congress to support continued and increased development and delivery of oil from Canada to the United States.

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-.»

The «Draft Resolution Recommending Constitutional Amendment Restoring Election Of U.S. Senators To The Legislatures Of The Sovereign States» would be debated by ALEC's Federalism and International Relations Task Force.

HB 2153 is based on an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) resolution that was adopted last year which spins campaign finance disclosure as an attack on «donor privacy.»

ALEC is aggressively pushing a model resolution designed to stop states and municipalities from requiring dark - money groups that spend millions to influence elections to disclose their donors, and has launched the misnamed Center to Protect Free Speech to lobby for it.

Model Resolution Whereas, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is committed...

ALEC has cheered on the idea of a «Con Con» for years, passing multiple resolutions calling for changes to the constitution, hosting workshops and handbooks and even draft resolutions laying out proposed rules of procedure.

He asserts that the BBA Model Policy provisions in the ALEC Article V Handbook passed by 9 states «don't add up» with the older BBA Resolutions.

Exxon's collusion with ALEC has helped introduce scores of coordinated bills in state houses across the country, including resolutions in 22 states to oppose EPA's plan to regulate greenhouse gases.

The good news for ALEC is that either count includes the resolutions that mirror ALEC model legislation.»

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

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will debate a resolution to repeal the 17th Amendment providing for the direct election of U.S. Senators.

An exclusive investigation conducted by DeSmogBlog in 2014 revealed that Cheniere acted as the lead corporate backer of the LNG exports ALEC model Resolution In Support of Expanded Liquefied Natural Gas Exports.

One of the most extreme and divisive proposals on ALEC's agenda is a proposed resolution calling on EPA Administrator and ALEC alumnus Scott Pruitt to review, and ultimately repeal, the EPA's 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are endangering the planet and public health.

The proposed resolution will likely deepen an internal schism in ALEC between dirty - energy corporations, such as Koch Industries, Devon Energy, and Peabody Coal, and more forward - looking corporate backers.

Despite Exxon pumping $ 1.7 million into ALEC in years past to cast doubt on climate science — the focus of an IRS whistleblower complaint filed by Common Cause and CMD last year — the oil giant says it objects to the resolution's language.

The template resolution Easterly presented to ALEC was created by the Environmental Council of States (ECOS), a group of state regulators that create template state resolutions similar to ALEC, often with overlapping agendas that benefit coal companies.

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.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recently released a model resolution calling for the weakening of solar net metering policies that threaten the traditional utility industry business model.

See here for ALEC's new anti-environmental resolutions.

ALEC's Updating Net Metering Policies Resolution, discussed last week at its States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC, would complement dirty utilities like Duke Energy that are working to make it more costly for people to feed their own solar power into the electrical grid.

ALEC more broadly demonstrates an attack against state action on climate change and renewable energy, promoting laws and resolutions that undermine state's abilities to address climate change and expand clean energy.

That same year, ALEC approved a resolution that stated, «EPA should not pursue regulation of greenhouse gases,» and reportedly agreed to create a «working group» to explore abolishing the EPA as we know it.