CMD additionally found that the tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris / Altria
gave ALEC $ 1,426,700 between 1995 and 2010.
In 2010, The Anschutz Foundation,
gave ALEC $ 10,000 and his Union Pacific firm was an ALEC sponsor the following year.
Q:
Given ALEC's emphasis on free markets and subsidies, does the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force plan to pass model legislation limiting fossil fuel and nuclear energy subsidies and corporate welfare?
The Charles Koch Foundation and Koch - controlled Claude R. Lambe Foundation both fund ALEC outside of Koch Industries» membership dues, together
giving ALEC hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Duke has
given ALEC $ 116,000 since 2009, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
Not exact matches
According to tax records, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
gave $ 75,858 to
ALEC in 2009.
Though she
gave few other policy specifics, other
ALEC speakers did.
Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another
ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and
give the dollars to private and parochial schools.
The Koch brothers have decades - long connections with
ALEC, which
gave the brothers the Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award in 1994.
Some, such as Google, have cited
ALEC's obstructionist stance on climate change, while Exxon has
given $ 1.7 million between 1998 and 2014 and was among the top funders of the annual
ALEC conference in July 2016.
The Marshall & Warren saga, among other similar ones, should be a salutary lesson the legions of smart
alec consensus freaks who volutarily
give up the capacity to think for themselves on the merits of evidence based propositions.
SPN groups operate as the policy, communications, and litigation arm of the American Legislative Exchange Council (
ALEC),
giving the cookie - cutter
ALEC agenda a sheen of academic legitimacy and state - based support.
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.
You can see why
ALEC member companies like American Electric Power or Duke Energy may take issue with this,
given their reliance on coal and gas electricity generation.
[34] The Nation reports that the Kochs have likely
given over $ 1 million to
ALEC over the years, and many of
ALEC's model bills reflect the policies the Kochs have been advocating for decades.
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.
ALEC claims these problems distort the free market and are aggravated «when solar power alone is
given the monopoly right to sell power directly to consumers from on - site equipment.»
Legislators violate
ALEC's core mission of promoting «free markets,»
giving their fossil fuel sponsors a pass and attacking incentives for their clean competitors at the expense of human health, clean air, clean water and a stable climate.