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Finally, S.B. 80 specifies procedures and guidelines, based on ALEC's Full and Fair Noneconomic Damages Act, for trial courts to review (upon a motion) noneconomic damages awards.

While Duke Energy has resisted calls to dump ALEC, it has responded to the pressure by distancing itself from several items on ALEC's dirty lobbying laundry list:

At least two of the bill's four authors, Michael Beard and Steve Drazkowski, have served on ALEC task forces, according to documents obtained by Common Cause, a citizen's lobbying organization.

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Conspicuously, both the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) are not on ALEC's secret Prodigal Son list.

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

One of the most extreme and divisive proposals on ALEC's agenda is a proposed resolution calling on EPA Administrator and ALEC alumnus Scott Pruitt to review, and ultimately repeal, the EPA's 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are endangering the planet and public health.

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.

Check out Rachel Maddow's recent interview with Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington for more on ALEC's work against clean energy and other revelations from ALEC's leaked documents:

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.

Fossil fuel companies Koch Industries and ExxonMobil serve on the ALEC private sector board and major utilities such as Devon Energy, Peabody Energy are ALEC funders and participants.

Peabody Energy and Koch Industries serve on ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Council and ExxonMobil, Chevron, Duke Energy, Marathon Petroleum, the Edison Electric Institute, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Gas Association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association are ALEC members.

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The report focuses on ALEC's attempts to stop the Clean Power Plan, which set out to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 % over 2005 levels.

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

The CMD listed financial underwriters of the ALEC event as the following (* Asterisks indicating membership on ALEC's corporate board of directors):

Duke did not respond to requests for comment on ALEC, but EEI confirmed it worked against the resolution.

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.

Kevin Murphy, a public affairs executive, also represented Exxon on ALEC's corporate («Private Enterprise») board in 2011.

The bill was based on an ALEC «model bill,» and the lead sponsor was ALEC member and former State Senator Debbie Lesko.

It recently got a seat, for example, on the corporate board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where for years it has also paid for a seat and vote on ALEC's «Education and Workforce Development» Task Force, which advances a «cash for kids» lobbying agenda.

The Foundation funded three ALEC members who sat on the ALEC Education Task Force which approved the Parent Trigger Proposal: The Independence Institute, Center for Education Reform, and Pacific Research Institute.

At present, there are approximately 155 pieces of model legislation listed on the ALEC website.

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Commissioner Brenda Burns (R) served on ALEC's board for nine years and became the organization's national chairman in 1999.

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On Tuesday, The Guardian showed how ALEC is facing a funding crisis after losing a number of members due to its policy on gun lawOn Tuesday, The Guardian showed how ALEC is facing a funding crisis after losing a number of members due to its policy on gun lawon gun laws.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

In September 2014 Chair Eric Schmidt announced on NPR that Alphabet had ended membership in ALEC, an organization that assists legislators and companies to promote model legislation.

The bill is based on a model produced by the conservative, corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Despite this year's overwhelming failure, ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, most likely won't slow their attacks on renewable energy any time soon.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Go ahead and respond with some smart alec comments, but this argument won't go anywhere until you just get on your knees and pray and ask God to know the truth.

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

According to chairman of ALEC Simon Crean, in just two years of full ESCAS application the Australian livestock export trade has made huge inroads into improving animal welfare outcomes and placed the trade on a stronger footing to support its ongoing vital economic and job - sustaining role in regional Australia.

The Department declined to comment on Labor's criticism while the Australian Livestock Exporters» Council (ALEC) said on Twitter improvements to its operations were being trialled while the facility remained closed, ahead of an audit in the coming days.

Most are based on model legislation produced by the corporate lobbying group ALEC.

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.

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.

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.

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Parents Across America was one of the first organizations to shine a light on the nefarious activities of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council which promotes privatization of our schools, through charters, vouchers, and online learning.

Revisions to ALEC's talking points for its model voucher legislation focus on middle - class families and the school choice options not tied to family income.

Those politicians who fall for the «ALEC treatment» become puppets who push the conservative, right - wing group's education policies and proposals back home — legislation designed to benefit ALEC's wealthy benefactors and turn a profit on the backs of students without any regard for their educational wellbeing.

For instance, in 2012 civil rights leaders called on Walmart and the Walton Family to withdraw from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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

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.

Since then, ALEC has come under closer scrutiny, and progressive organizations have begun to shine a brighter light on its activities.

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.