Sentences with phrase «alec task»

Beyond their involvement in these ALEC task force meetings, Exxon and API were involved in the creation of a similar fracking bill through the Council of State Governments before the ALEC model even existed.

At least two of the bill's four authors, Michael Beard and Steve Drazkowski, have served on ALEC task forces, according to documents obtained by Common Cause, a citizen's lobbying organization.

Kris Jordan, a Republican state senator and ALEC task force member, is renewing his efforts to take down Ohio's mandate after a similar attempt failed last session.

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.

Since 2008, the ALEC task force on criminal justice, called the Justice Performance Project, has brought state legislators and stakeholders together to combat the trend of unforgiving and harsh criminal laws.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills... Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations.

Not exact matches

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 interests.

In August, at ALEC's annual conference in New Orleans, the education task force officially adopted Bush's ten elements agenda.

At the time, ALEC's education task force was chaired by the for - profit education firm Connections Academy, which specializes in K - 12 online education.

Koch Industries has had a seat on ALEC's «Private Enterprise» board for years, while Koch network entities like Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, and Koch - funded «think tanks» have seats on a number of task forces where they get a vote on bills.

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.

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.

Two weeks after its D.C. conference, ALEC sent an e-mail to members of its environment task force announcing that in 2014 it would begin monthly conference calls to discuss combatting EPA greenhouse gas regulations, and that the first of these calls was to further discuss the strategy of engaging state AGs.

«We'll probably put together even more language specifically targeting this regulation,» ALEC environment task force director John Eick told Politico reporter Andrew Restuccia.

«ALEC has repeatedly adopted the position that regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is unnecessary, ineffective, and economically destructive,» wrote Todd Wynn two years ago when he headed up ALEC's energy, environment, and agriculture task force.

ALEC's bill would charge homeowners additional fees, with ALEC environment task force director John Eick telling The Guardian that these users are «free riders on the system.»

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.

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

ALEC and Heartland have shared numerous staff and «experts» over the years, including Sandy Liddy Bourne, who was ALEC's Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the from 1999 - 2004, before being promoted to Director of Legislation and Policy, where she oversaw all of ALEC's task forces and helped boost state enactment of ALEC's corporate bills from 11 percent to 20 percent.

[49][50][51] Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for many years GEO Group participated in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills that lengthened time in prison, such as so - called «truth - in - sentencing» and «three strikes» legislation, as models for states to adopt across the nation.

In Bourne's time directing ALEC's environmental task force, the «Environmental Literacy Improvement Act» was created and approved by ALEC's board in June, 2000.

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.»

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

Documents posted online by Common Cause, a public advocacy organization, show that Dominion executives sit on ALEC's energy, environment, and agriculture task force, along with Joseph Bast of the climate - denying Heartland Foundation and representatives of major carbon polluters and fossil - fuel interests including Koch Industries - related entities and Exxon - Mobil.

Todd Wynn, who directs ALEC's energy, environment and agriculture task force, said the group decided to take up the issue because some of its members are worried about the mandates» «impacts on their state's economies and their constituents.»

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.

After Color of Change, NAACP, and a coalition of groups came together to fight the legislation, ALEC cancelled its criminal justice task force and disavowed its bills.

Daniel Turner, who worked for the education reform task force of the far - right American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), waves a «Trust Teachers!»

Shortly before that, ALEC's Energy, Environment & Agriculture task force considered, but didn't ever approve, the Solar Streamline Permitting Act (see p. 18).

Cheniere Energy has been a member of the Koch - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and has held a seat on the pay - to - play organization's Energy task force.

ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force is currently co-chaired by American Electric Power's Paul Loeffelman and Wyoming state Representative Thomas Lockhart.

Members of ALEC's EEA task force include Koch Industries, the engine of climate denial finance, not to mention many groups its billionaire owners fund and even helped create, like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute and The Heartland Institute.

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.

ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force is drafting new model bills on behalf of its members like Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Peabody.

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.

It's the State of Indiana... working with the Heartland Institute, a member of ALEC's anti-environmental task force that has been central in coordinating campaigns to deny global warming.

Exxon and API just two of dozens of dirty energy interests paying to be in the room during ALEC's exclusive Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force meetings.

Troy Balderson, the third ALEC member senator in Ohio to introduce RPS attack legislation, is listed in ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force rosters from 2011 (see ALEC EEA agendas from Cincinnati and New Orleans, from Common Cause's whisteblower complaint to the IRS about ALEC's lobbying activities).

The Pacific Research Institute also has ties to several ALEC «task forces,» including the Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force, the Health and Human Services Task Force, the Education Task Force, and the Civil Justice Task Force.

Before that, Mr. Taylor was the staff director for the energy and environment task force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Four of the co-sponsors of SB 315 attended ALEC's meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, although it is unclear which (if any) of them may have been inside the EEA task force meeting the day that the fracking chemical loophole bill was discussed and approved: ***

Senators Niehaus and Balderson are members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, which approved the fracking «disclosure» bill internally sponsored by ExxonMobil, modeled after a Texas bill (see New York Times and ProPublica).

Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus was a consistent member of ALEC's [anti] environment task force from August 2010 - August 2011, the time period for which ALEC's EEA task force rosters are available.

Some co-sponsors became ALEC members in the lead up to ALEC's late 2011 meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, where the fracking disclosure loophole model bill was finalized by ALEC's Energy, Environmental and Agriculture task force.

In direct opposition to Duke Energy's position on climate, ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force continues to advance legislative efforts that attempt to deny the realities of climate change.

ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force includes APS and presumably Duke Energy, among other dirty energy giants.

SB 315 co-sponsoring Representatives Carey, Damschroder and Derickson were all listed as members of ALEC's EEA task force as of August, 2011.

ALEC has named Jennifer Jura of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) as the new corporate chair for its task force that works to oppose action to tackle climate change.