Sentences with phrase «through alec»

Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.

Ohio Senator Kris Jordan used corporate money funneled through ALEC to attend ALEC events with his wife (ALEC in Ohio, p. 7).

Notably, ALEC has been silent on the $ 37.5 billion in federal fossil subsidies that go to ALEC funders like Exxon Mobil, which has funded climate change denial through ALEC — as CMD recently documented for the New York Attorney General who is investigating Exxon Mobile's funding of climate denial.

APS appears to be part of a larger national campaign from EEI being implemented, in part, through ALEC's new net metering model language bill that favors the utility industry over distributed solar energy.

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.

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

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

Through ALEC, corporations have both a VOICE and a VOTE on specific state laws to change the American education system.

One of the main ways they are doing this is through ALEC.

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.

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.

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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.

ALEC has promoted mass school closures through parent trigger laws and A-F grading systems for schools, while simultaneously promoting charter school expansion.

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.

In 2014, Ohio Senator Bill Seitz denied that SB 310, which froze the state's clean energy standards through 2016, was influenced by ALEC.

CMD and Common Cause provided the IRS Whistleblower Office with extensive evidence obtained through open records requests, original research and public financial documents detailing intentional misuse of ALEC by the Exxon to advance legislation of direct benefit to the company.

It has carried on this engagement even to this day through its continuing association with ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Counsel — an organization that writes model conservative legislation, and which continues to argue that anthropogenic climate change is scientifically uncertain at best.

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.

Central to these efforts is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), through which lobbyists — such as those from API — can meet in secret with state legislators from across the country.

When the anti-sea level legislation was pushed through by State Senator David Rouzer (a leader of the state's ALEC delegation), NC - 20's chair declared to the Independent, «God Bless him.

Explaining the nature and origins of the project, CMD wrote,» [CMD] unveiled a trove of over 800 «model» bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Clint Woods of ALEC said that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and other cap - and - trade greenhouse gas reduction plans would become the «new battlefield» after federal climate legislation fell through.

The predecessor to SPN, the Madison Group, was introduced by ALEC in the 1980s through the Heritage Foundation, where ALEC was also housed.

No, we're not talking about the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin.

The names of hundreds of members of the American Legislative Exchange Council («ALEC»), details of which are closely guarded by the group, are revealed in a document obtained by Documented through a public records request.

«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.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

The new bill, which has passed through the MEC committee and is headed for ratification in the State House of North Carolina, included a requirement to use the FracFocus website, following the ALEC fracking model legislation passed in multiple states.

At the same time, ALEC was incubating its assault on state clean energy incentives through The Heartland Institute's proposed Electricity Freedom Act, the repeal of state renewable portfolio standards, later introduced in some form in 15 states, according to ALEC.

This would allow companies like Monsanto (indirectly represented in ALEC through its membership in CropLife America, an agrochemical front group and ALEC energy task force member) to bottleneck regulations of their GMO seeds and products at the state government level and stop community resistance to their abusive patent laws and enforcement through lawsuits.

ALEC continues to push a corporate - driven school privatization agenda through legislatures across the country.

Within ALEC, every state has a legislator partnered with a lobbyist, who together act as state co-chairs to raise cash for the organization and promote the ALEC agenda through «model» legislation.

Fossil fuel interests are working through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to repeal state clean energy mandates, called Renewable Portfolio Standards.

SPN, its member affiliates, and SPN - related entities such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, continued to receive funding from the tobacco industry that has continued through at least 2012, according to Altria / Phillip Morris documents.

And more worrisome, fossil fuel interests including the Koch brothers and Shell Oil are still spending millions trying to repeal renewable energy standards in states around the country through the work of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other front groups.

ALEC raises much of its corporate funding from the fossil fuel industry, which in turn utilizes ALEC as a key - though far from the only - vehicle to ram through its legislative agenda through in the states.

Wind energy is set to expand rapidly, with the American Wind Energy Association projecting $ 10 billion in investments over the next decade, thanks to the RPS targeted by ALEC and its dirty companies through loyal politicians like Senator Seitz.

Through these meetings, ALEC has helped disseminate state laws that disenfranchise voters and policies that deny climate science and solutions to global warming.

Beyond their involvement in these ALEC task force meetings, Exxon and API were involved in the creation of a similar fracking bill through the Council of State Governments before the ALEC model even existed.

* 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).

In Ohio and other states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through open records requests.

ALEC Exposed Also run by the Center for Media and Democracy, ALEC Exposed tracks the corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council's efforts to undermine the public interest and democracy through lobbying and collaboration between corporations and politicians on «model bills» developed behind closed doors to shift state laws in favor of corporate interests instead of the public.