Sentences with phrase «left alec»

Since CMD launched the 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).

While there may have been a gap in APS» membership, Gibson contended, «It's possible APS» holding company Pinnacle West never left ALEC, or it's possible that APS lied to the Capital Times just like APS lied to Huffington Post about funding the anti-solar ads.»

APS claimed to have left ALEC in April 2012 due to «economic» reasons but rejoined the organization in November 2012 by paying $ 10,000 for membership and fees to join the Energy, Environment and Agriculture (EEA) Task Force.

The solar trade group SEIA left ALEC in the fall of 2012.

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).

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

Climate Investigations Center has compiled a table of the companies who have left ALEC since 2012.

The total Market Cap of the companies that have left ALEC in recent years is over $ 7.25 Trillion (trillion with a T) The biggest company that is still an ALEC member is ExxonMobil with a current Market Cap of $ 355 Billion.

Twenty three companies in the Fortune 500 top 50 have left ALEC since 2012.

British Petroleum (BP) also joined the list of companies leaving ALEC's ranks, severing ties in May 2015.

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.

Shell is the fourth to leave ALEC.

So why has Duke Energy resisted popular pressure to leave ALEC, including from its own ratepayers?

Google announced it was leaving ALEC in September 2014, calling its membership a «mistake.»

Not exact matches

(The cartoon is the picture on the left for all you smart - alecs out there!)

A little more off - kilter is Miles Teller, who has a bit of fun as Willard, a trucker hat - wearing smart - alec with two left feet.

As a result, ALEC Exposed mounted a series of consumer boycott campaigns forcing members to leave the organization.

Since late August corporate giants, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and YELP have each announced they have already left or are soon dropping their membership in ALEC.

They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave without ever collecting a pension.

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.

The overall effort being pushed by the hyper - partisan ALEC and its allies left law school professor David Super of Georgetown University shaking his head.

Today Greenpeace joins a coalition of environmental, civil rights and democracy reform groups that are calling upon Duke Energy to join the 38 other companies that have left the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — see the letter the coalition sent to CEO Jim Rogers this morning.