Sentences with phrase «like alec»

Groups like ALEC have tons of corporate members who have been found liable in state AG suits for corrupt and harmful business practices.

If Duke doesn't like ALEC's history shilling for climate change deniers, nor the National Rifle Association, nor the Republican party's voter disenfranchisement strategies, what is making Duke stay?

Regardless of the varying influence of groups like ALEC and CSG forging Big Business state laws, ExxonMobil is getting what it wants.

Yet what Koch - affiliated groups like ALEC and the American Energy Alliance manage to do is take policies that save jobs and strengthen (clean) energy security and make them all about President Obama's agenda: any show of support for clean energy, goes their pro-fossil fuel line of reasoning, is a direct endorsement of climate action / the existence of climate change, and thus can not be tolerated.

«It is a disturbing development to see a politically motivated group like ALEC join forces with the shadowy palm oil lobby from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as with huge agribusiness companies Cargill and Wilmar to pressure the EPA to overturn what is supposed to be a science - based decision made in the best interests of the American people,» said Laurel Sutherlin with the Rainforest Action Network, in a statement.

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.

The State Policy Network serves as a coordinating umbrella group to advance a far - right agenda across a broad range of US states, often working in close conjunction with SPN members like ALEC.

Written by Gary Cook, crossposted from Greenpeace's The EnvironmentaLIST: Google, other IT companies should end support for climate denying groups like ALEC

Companies that have shown integrity in other ways, by supporting clean energy or standing up to illegal government surveillance, don't need to swim in the Beltway muck by supporting climate deniers like ALEC or CEI.

«Peabody plays a major role in industry efforts to block action on climate change, with its own lobbyists and PR campaigns, as well as through front groups it supports like ALEC,» says Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA.

«It's depressing that groups like ALEC have so much influence,» said Masur.

The Heartland Institute was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, just like ALEC was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the «Environmental Literacy Improvement Act.»

It is due to a calculated disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industry and a cadre of front groups like ALEC to make people believe the science is unsettled, exploiting the natural human tendency to do nothing in the face of uncertainty.

(The clue that you are wrong is that no scientific organization anywhere in the world supports your position on the science — only other idiology - led and industry - fed PR firms like ALEC, AFP, Marshall Institute, API, Heartland Institute, and Fox News support your position).

Look, many in the country see and understand the connection between conservative organizations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and Republican privatization policies.

And as many know, state lawmakers have been a cheap date for organizations like ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).

Groups like ALEC actually write the laws they want passed, wine and dine (and probably pay outright) to get those bills passed as law.

I have always liked ALEC.

Not exact matches

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

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.

And he probabably will be taking his marching orders from ALEC and the Koch bros like the rest of the party does.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

The Market - Power Renewables Act and the Renewable Energy Credit Act: ALEC and other Koch - funded State Policy Network groups like the Heartland Institute haven't had much success with their attempts to repeal state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) laws through the ALEC / Heartland Electricity Freedom Act.

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.

Even more extraordinary is ALEC's push this year to repeal Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require that utility companies provide a certain amount of their total energy from renewable sources like wind.

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

Parent trigger laws are being pushed by organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which Walden Media owner and oil billionaire Philip Anschutz helps fund.

While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

That's why ALEC backs anti-union measures like the attack on workers» right to collective bargaining.

These aren't radical ideas, but ISTA and the groups protesting ALEC like to paint them as such.

ALEC's «Virtual Public Schools Act,» for example, even allows virtual schools to be paid the same amount per pupil as traditional public schools even though operations like K12 have no bricks and mortar school house or desks or air - conditioning or gyms, etc., to maintain.

ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

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.

If we rate only a D +, I truly hate to imagine what it must be like in states where her ALEC - aligned agenda has advanced further!

ALEC gets 98 percent of its funding from corporations and sources like the Koch family foundations, and it acts as a conduit for special interest influence in state legislatures.

ALEC is funded by some of the biggest fossil fuel companies in the world, like Koch.

At ALEC today, private companies like the scandal - plagued K12 Inc. which are supported by U.S. taxpayers and pay their CEOs millions in annual salaries ($ 4 million in 2017) are pushing hard for the privatization of U.S. schools so they can rake in more profits.

Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (or what ALEC calls «educational savings accounts») work like school vouchers because they siphon off public taxpayer money for private and religious schools.

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.

And there was certainly a time, not so long ago, when I was also a fully paid - up McKeever Believer: his seriousness, his commitment to the act of painting, and the complete absence from his work of what the American painter Gary Stephan has dubbed «visual sarcasm» — that is, the use of paint only in order to flaunt its supposed inadequacy and redundancy — made him seem like a bulwark against the insufferable smart - alec nihilism of Richard Prince, Wade Guyton, or Christopher Wool; and against the prevailing attitudes within the Higher Education establishment at which I both teach, and study on the MA programme, where the buzz - phrase on the Fine Art Critical Studies syllabus is «post-Making»; in other words, goodbye and good riddance to all that messy business with brushes and squeegees and welding torches, once and for all.

ALEC tries to shortcircuit all that nasty legislative stuff and put elected state officials directly in touch with corporations and other like - minded lobbyists and politicians to meet outside of the legislature and make things happen.

After Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of «literally lying» about climate change on NPR in September 2014, a fleet of companies ditched ALEC, from oil giants like BP and Occidental Petroleum to software and tech firms like Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, and SAP — the company which chaired ALEC's corporate board.

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.

In that climate of fear about the future, ALEC's Rich States, Poor States offers an elixir that purports to cure what ails you — like snake oil salesmen in days of yore.

Large utilities like Duke Energy and Dominion are and have been members of ALEC.

Now ALEC is launching a new wave of attacks on clean energy policies like solar net metering.

Most of ALEC's 2013 efforts were defeated through lobbying and grassroots initiatives undertaken by renewables advocates and climate change activists like Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

While ALEC is secretive in its operations, leaked internal documents show that coal companies like Peabody Energy and their trade associations are bankrolling the group.

E-cig companies have been making the rounds at groups like ACSH as well as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the State Policy Network (SPN) in search of third parties to help promote its product and derail regulation.

Despite executives» claims to the contrary, many oil and coal companies continue to support groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which spreads misinformation about climate science to state legislators, but denies that it denies climate science.