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During ALEC conferences, legislators and lobbyists get an equal vote on «model» legislation, which ALEC then promotes to state legislators.

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.

On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $ 44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.

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).

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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which plays a huge role in funding Republican candidates, has made opposing net metering and clean energy policies a foundation of its policies.

Many publicly - traded corporations are members of ALEC, which crafts legislation that challenges renewable energy regulations and undermines the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

From wikipedia * Koch Industries Inc. was one of 14 «Vice Chairman» level sponsors at ALEC's 2010 annual meeting, which requires a $ 25,000 donation.

She says her group, which has already filed a complaint with the IRS and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about ALEC, is now asking the state's ethic commission, JCOPE, to look into it.

They also want records of Exxon's association with organizations such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and The Heartland Institute, which have a history of climate skepticism and pushback against climate regulations.

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.

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.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

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.

The WBD movie promotes a parent trigger law created by charter school operators and promoted by ALEC, which wrote the Stand Your Ground law.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

In 2006 the University of Chicago economist told ALEC that the ideal way to get to a system in which parents control the education of their children would be «to abolish the public school system and eliminate all the taxes that pay for it.»

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.

Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and vacation junkets at exotic resorts.

For example, ALEC is a big supporter of vouchers and tuition tax credit schemes which use public dollars to subsidize tuition at private or religious schools.

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.

However, the conversion to charter schools has proven profitable to many U.S. firms such as ALEC member National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter school management organization operating in eight states, and K - 12, Inc., which promotes «virtual» charter schools as well as «virtual» voucher schools.

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.

At the time, ALEC's education task force was chaired by the for - profit education firm Connections Academy, which specializes in K - 12 online education.

ALEC has pushed education vouchers, which use public funds to pay for private schools, for years.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

Walden Media, which produced Won't Back Down and funded the charter — school documentary Waiting for Superman, is owned by Philip Anschutz, an ALEC supporter and prominent Tea Party funder.

Another major player in the mass school closings movement is the notorious American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which openly seeks to privatize public education.

Meanwhile, another Republican legislator, State Representative Rosa Rebimbas (R - 70th District) is pushing another ALEC concept, School Vouchers, which are designed to shift scarce public funds away from public schools and give the dollars to private and parochial schools.

In 2008, the Show - Me Institute released a «policy study» titled «The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,» and that same year, Jones introduced a tuition tax credit bill titled the «Children's Education Freedom Act,» which reflected the ALEC «Great Schools Tax Credit Act.»

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.

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.

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.

Then, SPN published a document titled «You Can Too» in which it promoted the successful campaign to pass Right to Work in Michigan using the ALEC model.

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

It's unknown how EEI or individual utility members of ALEC responded to the anti-EV resolution, though Ford, which has a growing interest in electric vehicles, deserted ALEC a few months later.

ALEC's ties to the Kochs and other oil companies are well - documented, and ALEC has had close ties to utilities, which are key drivers of its model legislation.

Welcome to the murky world of ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), the State Policy Network (SPN), and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity (AFP)-- all of which are financially aided by the Kochs» riches along with funding from some of their fellow billionaire travelers.

Seitz also spoke on a panel on «Renewable energy mandates reform» at ALEC's 2015 Annual Meeting, which was sponsored by AEP, Duke Energy, and ExxonMobil.

The Madison Group, the predecessor to the State Policy Network (SPN)-- which was exposed recently in a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) report, followed by the release of funding proposals detailing its coordination by The Guardian — was «launched by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC... and housed in the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.»

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.

SPN, as reported in 2013 by DeSmog, was actually created as a message - force - multiplier by and for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), another conservative and corporate - backed group which produces model legislation that is disseminated to predominantly Republican state legislators nationwide.

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.

This bill mirrors the provisions of the ALEC model bill which call for teaching «a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner,» teaching «different perspectives» to allow for students to «form their own opinions,» and creating an «atmosphere of respect for different opinions and open - mindedness to new ideas.»

The Koch brothers have decades - long connections with ALEC, which gave the brothers the Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award in 1994.

Peabody Energy is an Private Enterprise Board member, was 2011 winner of ALEC's Private Sector Member of the Year Award, and served as a «Chairman» level sponsor of 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $ 50,000.

A good example of the changing arguments of fossil - fuel - supported climate misinformers is ALEC — the American Legislative Exchange Council, which Dominion Resources belongs to and supports financially.

Many of ACSH's funders also have ties to the controversial ALEC, which CMD has called a «corporate bill mill.»

ALEC receives funding from the Canadian company TransCanada, which is aiming to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

CMD now hosts the website «ALEC Exposed» which houses examples of ALEC's model legislation previously unavailable to the public.

Their study found that the ALEC bills» likelihood of passing was «strikingly high compared to the dismal rate at which all other bills are enacted into law.»