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Just like the corporate members of ALEC are protected from civil liability when they commit wrongdoing, thanks to laws written and pushed by ALEC's civil justice task force, chaired by our friend Victor Schwartz, the General Counsel of the American Tort Reform Association.

We now have access to various member directories of ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force, and agendas for its meetings back to 2010.

The bill is part of the agenda of ALEC's very active Civil Justice Task Force, co-chaired by Victor Schwartz, General Counsel for the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), a corporate group seeking to limit the liability of its corporate members.

ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy remain leading members of ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Council.

«The biggest scam of the last 100 years is global warming,» one member of ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Board said during the group's 2015 annual meeting, at one of the few sessions open to reporters.

A list of ALEC Corporations can be found here.

This task force is the source of ALEC's model legislation aimed at repealing renewable energy standards and regional climate policy initiatives in US states.

CMD first reported on Ford's funding of ALEC in November 2015 at a time when other companies were fleeing ALEC.

Major funders of ALEC include ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and the coal company Peabody Energy.

This fall, several news outlets (working independently) broke the news that oil giant ExxonMobil (a Private Enterprise Council Member of ALEC) had known as early as the 1970s that carbon dioxide emissions were fueling the greenhouse effect — and yet the company continued to wage a political and media campaign to cloud the public's understanding of climate science.

Whether it's Google's denunciation of ALEC or Tim Cook's defense of Apples renewables investments in the face of anti-renewables shareholder activists, business leaders are already flexing their muscles when it comes to climate politics.

SB 315 co-sponsoring Representatives Carey, Damschroder and Derickson were all listed as members of ALEC's EEA task force as of August, 2011.

ALEC legislators have found ways to make their moves harder to track in light of repeated exposure of ALEC's pollution of democracy in the United States over the last year, and sometimes existing state laws don't help.

* Cross-referenced between a list of ALEC legislators listed in an Aug. 9, 2011 email from the legislative aid of ALEC's Ohio State Chairman, Rep. John Adams, obtained through a public records request (see PDF pp. 82 - 84 and PFAW p. 12).

Instead, chemicals that subsidiaries of Big Oil use during fracking can remain exempt from public disclosure as «trade secrets,» mirroring language of ALEC's model law.

Because of that disconnect and the overwhelming influence of ALEC politicians sponsoring SB 315, ALEC appears to be the keeper of Exxon's fracking secrets in Ohio.

The precise details of the ALEC tour, including the trip being part - sponsored by TransCanada, are not mentioned in Adams» financial disclosures, which only reports his expenses as being from ALEC and the Alberta Government.

Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus was a consistent member of ALEC's [anti] environment task force from August 2010 - August 2011, the time period for which ALEC's EEA task force rosters are available.

Senators Niehaus and Balderson are members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, which approved the fracking «disclosure» bill internally sponsored by ExxonMobil, modeled after a Texas bill (see New York Times and ProPublica).

The phenomenon of ALEC legislators sending such letters to lobbyists is something CMD has previously reported on.

Exxon is also a member of ALEC's corporate board and funder of ALEC.

Most of ALEC's money comes from corporations and rich people like the Koch brothers, with a tiny sliver more from its negligible legislator membership dues ($ 50 / year).

Mr. Head testified alongside members of the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Kansas Policy Institute (see more on each, below), all of which are members of ALEC and SPN.

It's the State of Indiana... working with the Heartland Institute, a member of ALEC's anti-environmental task force that has been central in coordinating campaigns to deny global warming.

Sen. Bill Seitz's SB 58 takes advantages of existing provisions of Ohio's RPS law and tweaks other sections to mirror the key aspects of ALEC's Renewable Energy Credit Act.

Almost too predictably, ECOS» work is sponsored by the coal fronts like ACCCE and the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), both sponsors of the ALEC meeting where Easterly presented the ECOS model resolution.

Some of ALEC's top «private sector members» include Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody, and Duke Energy.

An internal tracking document — obtained from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) by the Center for Media and Democracy under Texas public records law — reveals the scope of ALEC's anti-environmental efforts in 2014.

Corporations like Duke fund most of ALEC's operations.

This month, at ALEC's third and final meeting of the year in Scottsdale, Arizona, I had an interesting encounter with a member of ALEC's board of directors.

Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.

EEI is a member of ALEC and sponsored the 2012 States and Policy Summit, with sponsorships for ALEC conferences range from $ 7,000 -25,000.

TPPF is one of the «think tanks» that is part of ALEC and a sibling of ALEC, the State Policy Network (SPN), which has also been funded by Koch money and other funding vehicles used by the Koch network of billionaires.

Ford has been a member of ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force, which pushes what it calls «tort reform» and others have called «tort deform,» changes to personal injury laws.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word - for - word copy of the ALEC «model» Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC - inspired anti-union measures in recent years.

[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.

On the agenda during the San Diego closed - door meeting of the ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force are numerous new attempts to undermine efforts to tackle climate change.

Below are financial underwriters of ALEC's meeting, taking place at one of the largest resorts on the West Coast, along with the rates from another document obtained by CMD, ranging from $ 5,000 to $ 100,000.

Members of ALEC's EEA task force include Koch Industries, the engine of climate denial finance, not to mention many groups its billionaire owners fund and even helped create, like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute and The Heartland Institute.

ExxonMobil is among the top sponsors of ALEC's 2015 annual meeting, and Exxon's Cynthia Bergman remains on ALEC's corporate board.

Check our humorous dating profiles (citing real - life events) on an ALEC senator in Ohio attacking clean energy incentives and an ALEC senator in Nebraska who was courted on a trip to the tar sands courtesy of ALEC, oil companies and the Canadian government.

So far, the IRS has failed to do its job and walk into the shadows of ALEC's operations, where there is every indication that ALEC has crossed the line.

Hallmarks of the ALEC fracking bill include generous exemptions from disclosure for «trade secrets,» and reliance on the FracFocus website for disclosing chemicals to the public.

Korman is a dues - paying member of ALEC, according to a 2012 report by Progress Missouri, an advocacy group.

The Kochs have been among the biggest backers of ALEC and the member organizations, think tanks, and advocacy groups that aid ALEC for decades.

ExxonMobil is listed as a top corporate sponsor of the ALEC meeting, taking place this week in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The resolution met public pushback this week from several prominent business members of ALEC, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Honeywell, UPS and the Edison Electric Institute.

James Taylor, the Heartland Institute's senior fellow for environmental policy, said he was able to persuade most of ALEC's state legislators and corporate members to push for a repeal of laws requiring more solar and wind power use on the basis of economics.

ALEC Energy, the renewable energy arm of ALEC Engineering and Contracting LLC, has signed off on a contract to develop a 6.5 MW rooftop solar plant with Emaar Development for the Dubai Hills Mall project which is currently under construction.

«For instance, on January 16th, in an e-mail directed to members of Congress (see attached), Mr. Dranias openly attempts to discredit the 27 active BBA application count and the aggregation of ALEC model legislation with previous BBA applications.