Sentences with phrase «including alec»

Derrick Sontag apparently only cited a range of debunked studies (the «Spanish» study and the flawed Beacon Hill report) and information from Koch - funded interests like the Institute for Energy Research and «State Budget Solutions,» a project of several State Policy Network groups including ALEC and the Mercatus Center, a think tank founded and heavily - funded by the Kochs.

The iPhone 5s range also includes ALEC (RRP $ 44.95) a genuine leather flip case.

Other such partners include ALEC and various Tea Party groups.

There's ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute, the architects of the leaked 1998 master plan to publicly attack climate science and scientists, which included ALEC itself and other ALEC members like DCI Group.

Not exact matches

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 was also at the heart of the battle between Wisconsin Gov. Walker and collective bargaining including the Wisconsin state union workers back in 2011.

ALEC said the consultant collected and destroyed any non-compliant handling equipment like sticks and plastic pipe with suitable livestock handling aids recommended; including the simple but effective use of plastic bags waved / flapped in the air to encourage the movement of sheep.

Parent Trigger legislation, promoted by the right - wing organization American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), has been passed in several states, including California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, and is being considered in others.

The organization's agenda is so extreme that in the last few months 40 major U.S. companies, including Wal - Mart, Coca - Cola, Kraft, and General Motors, have severed ties with ALEC.

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.

The idea has powerful backers, including conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- best known for «stand your ground» self - defense laws — and the Heartland Institute, famous for challenging climate science.

«Next year the legislative leadership will again push an ALEC agenda that favors corporate executives» interests over the values of working West Virginians, a plan that includes privatization.

Other issues that ALEC, the group funded by the ultra-conservative Koch Brothers, pushes includes Arizona's anti-immigrant law, Florida's «stand your ground law,» that seeks to protect people who shoot «suspicious individuals,» and the flurry of laws aimed at suppressing Latino and African - American voters.

In many cases, the anti-public school, pro-cyber school legislation was a result of aggressive lobbying and political involvement by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the member of its Digital Learning Subcommittee, a group of education reform entrepreneurs that includes K12 Inc..

He worked to benefit cyber charters and K12 specifically when he was Governor of Florida, and in the ensuing years his Foundation for Excellence in Education has been working with ALEC to make it easier for cyber charters, including K12 Inc., to expand nationally.

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.)

Supporters — including most Republicans, a handful of Democrats, a wealthy Oregon businessman behind a national network of charters and an ALEC - affiliated, right - wing outfit — call it an «innovative» solution to the plight of chronically underperforming schools.

These, of course, include the Koch Brothers and the American Legislative Exchange Council (better known as ALEC) who advance the privatization of public education and are funding many school choice campaigns.

ALEC includes many individual members who are lawmakers from across the country.

An October 2012 report entitled «Buying Influence» by Common Cause indicates that Colorado PUC nominee Glenn Vaad received ALEC «scholarships» in 2006, 2007 and 2008, including money from Xcel Energy.

According to Elsner, ALEC's 2014 efforts in energy and environment beyond the three efforts against solar include the following:

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.

The truth is that ALEC has crafted model legislation that misrepresents the science of climate change and hosted prominent climate science deniers at its conferences, and ALEC officials — including CEO Lisa Nelson — have refused to acknowledge or outright denied the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels and other human activities are causing climate change.

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.

Many large corporations have left ALEC for that reason, including Virginia's other big electric utility, AEP.

Some corporations ALEC has worked with include ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Energy, and Reynolds Tobacco.

AFPM includes members from both Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, who are also represented on ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Council.

Other companies to leave ALEC since 2014 include Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Yelp — all in the face of criticism over ALEC's climate change views.

Additionally, the documents list funding a number of ALEC events including the following: [63]

Some of the wage - crushing «model bills» pushed through ALEC include:

«Further recognizing the fact that «[h] uman activity has and will continue to alter the atmosphere of the planet» and that «[s] uch activity may lead to demonstrable changes in climate, including a warming of the planetary mean temperature,» ALEC developed the Interstate Research Commission on Climactic Change Act in the mid-1990s.

The Centre for Media and Democracy (CMD) notes that since the 2011 launch of the website ALECExposed.org, many corporations have left and publicly distanced themselves from ALEC, including General Motors, Walgreens, Johnson & Johnson, Wal - Mart, Amazon, McDonald's, Coca - Cola, and GE.

ALEC was initially formed in September, 1973 by a group of state legislators including Henry Hyde, Paul Weyrich, and Lou Barnett, among others.

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.

Since CMD launched their ALEC Exposed investigation in 2011, 108 corporations and 19 non-profits have left ALEC, including BP, Shell, Visa, Coca - Cola, Microsoft, McDonald's, and Google (now Alphabet).

ALEC hosed a meeting in Denver featuring Republican legislators and representatives from corporate groups including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA.

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 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.

We know that ALEC members include not only the Heartland Institute, but a who's who of dirty energy interests that stand to make money by denying climate change.

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.

Dozens of utilities and energy companies provide funding for ALEC, including Koch Industries.

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.

ALEC has three model proposals and has held workshops at almost every meeting including its most recent meeting in Denver as Rep. Chris Taylor reported.

The DeVos / ALEC vision of universal vouchers, including for wealthy families and religious schools, would fundamentally undermine the nation's public education system.

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.

But renewable energy officials — including ones from the Solar Energy Industries Association and the American Wind Energy Association, both ALEC members — questioned the new policy.

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.

In recent years, many corporations, including energy companies such as BP and Shell, have dropped ALEC.