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Internal emails reveal how ALEC, utility industry representatives, and front groups have been working to influence the members of the Ohio Energy Mandates Study Committee.

Ndege explained how ALEC is essentially a corporate bill mill where corporations and special interests help craft model legislation.

Common Cause - one of the organizations to get these legal threats from ALEC over the «climate denial» exposure - has submitted detailed complaints to the IRS documenting how ALEC operations likely violate their nonprofit status.

If you want to see how ALEC's own member politicians, lobbyists, and materials deny the science of climate change, check out ALECClimateChangeDenial.org.

Even companies that are sticking with ALEC appear to be embarrassed by the association: Duke Energy has done all it can to not confirm renewed ALEC membership, ignoring repeated calls, emails and a 150,000 - strong public petition delivered by a diverse coalition of organizations whose members don't appreciate how ALEC's bad policies make Duke appear two - faced.

See our annotated version of the ALEC bill showing how ALEC's language can be used to peddle global warming denial in schools.

The complaint included more than 220 pages of evidence demonstrating how ALEC operates more like a «corporate bill mill» than it does a 501 (c)(3) organization.

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.

See the new video below, starring Karran Harper Royal, one of PAA's founders, about how ALEC is pushing substandard virtual learning in state legislatures throughout the country, in order to reap huge corporate profits for the privateers and defraud our kids.

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.

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But in a sign of how vulnerable the live export sector feels right now, the Australian Live Exporters Council (ALEC) chairman Simon Crean has sent a letter to Agriculture Minister David Littleproud, telling him the industry would discuss the proposal.

«I don't believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy,» he scoffs, and the film's success lies in how much pleasure it takes in undermining this self - important smart alec, physically, mentally and spiritually.

DeVos, like most at ALEC, dismisses the collective good in favor of the individual benefit, regardless of how this impacts others.

The Portland Press Herald's award - winning special report on virtual schools in the state of Maine showed how K12 works with advocacy organizations, including Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to pass legislation that benefits for - profit education providers.

award - winning special report on virtual schools in the state of Maine showed how K12 works with advocacy organizations, including Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to pass legislation that benefits for - profit education providers.

ALEC members support more choice for students, because taxpayers deserve a government that looks out for them, not one that dictates how they should live their life.

Jeb Bush Defends Common Core At ALEC Meeting and Jeb Bush defends Common Core and Michelle Rhee, Jeb Bush warn Michigan legislators against abandoning Common Core standards and JEB BUSH AND JOEL KLEIN: The Case for Common Educational Standards and Arne Duncan tells newspaper editors how to report on Common Core and Arne Duncan: Beating Up on Common Core Is «Political Silliness» and Arne Duncan Defends Common Core, Ridicules Critics and Obama quietly implements Common Core.

At the annual conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting this year, Dr. Steve Perry — a liberal charter school leader and passionate educational choice advocate — spoke about the poor state of K — 12 education for families of color and those in poverty and inspired the audience with his ideas on how to bridge the political divide to advance universal educational choice.

In our FAQ on the movie, we provide some background about how the Parent Trigger legislation was first developed, how it has been disseminated by the right - wing group ALEC, and how it has never successfully worked to bring about true parent empowerment and why it is unlikely to do so in the future.

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.

In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.

The report was sent in July 1991 to the Tobacco Institute «s Kurt Malmgren, then Senior Vice President of State Activities, by ALEC's then - executive director, Sam Brunelli, with a note saying he sent it «to illustrate how effective ALEC has become.»

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).

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

«Reagan Vs. Cities and States: The 20th Century Battle over South African Apartheid» tells the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and won even as the Reagan administration and special interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sought to suppress those efforts.

ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force — which has also been funded by Koch money — will lead two workshops on the Clean Power Plan: «Key Changes in the Final Rule and How State Legislatures Can Protect States» and «Avoiding Premature Implementations: MATS, the Clean Power Plan and Utilities.»

A document titled «Roles and Responsibilities» is also listed in the agenda, but it is not known what this contains, how it varies from the «job description» published by the Guardian, and if it is any better or worse than having a Peabody Energy lobbyist school legislators in their responsibilities to an organization like ALEC.

In a USB drive branded with the logo of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a folder labeled «Easterly» contains a presentation titled «Easterly ALEC presentation 11 28 12» explaining current EPA air pollution rules and how Tom Easterly has worked to obstruct them.

ALEC has also helped advance this agenda, as noted by PRWatch, opposing regional agreements to address climate change and even hosting a workshop for ALEC politicians last year about «Warming Up to Climate Change,» about how increased carbon dioxide is supposedly good for you and leads to longer lifespans.

An internal ALEC document provided to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), shows that a Peabody Energy lobbyist provided ALEC legislators with a presentation on how to get more cash from corporations like Peabody to attend ALEC conferences.

Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»