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Virginia: Ken Cuccinelli’s Clean Energy Rollback Mirrors ALEC Agenda
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli is working with coal companies and State Policy Network groups backed by Koch Industries to rollback VA’s voluntary clean energy program. In states across...
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NC: Duke Energy Gave $147,000 to Sponsors of SB10 Power Grab
The North Carolina legislature is taking the unprecedented step of firing 131 officials from several policy and regulatory boards, including the Utilities Commission overseeing Duke Energy, the...
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Koch Brother Fronts Flood into Kansas to Attack Wind Industry – REPORT
Correction: this post listed KS Sen. Julia Lynn as a supporter of the RPS freeze–she is not and her name was removed below. A recent flood of Koch-supported think tanks, junk scientists and astroturf...
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Duke Energy & Koch Brothers aim to kill clean energy in North Carolina
As anticipated, former Duke Energy engineer and North Carolina Representative Mike Hager has introduced a version of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Electricity Freedom Act” into the...
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Center for Media and Democracy releases new Reporter’s Guide to the “State...
The Center for Media and Democracy has released a new report on the State Policy Network, a web of interconnected groups that attack climate change science and oppose support for renewable energy....
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BREAKING: North Carolina legislators reject ALEC’s fossil fuel funded attack...
Today, those employed by North Carolina’s clean energy industries and anyone concerned about global climate change can celebrate the apparent downfall of an attack on renewable energy incentives. NC...
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NC Senators force ALEC bill through committee without even counting votes
The ALEC repeal of NC’s renewable energy law was written by fossil fuel funded climate change deniers at the Heartland Institute. Bitter from a lack of support for his attacks on clean energy...
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Heritage Foundation crisis clogs Koch Brothers outreach to Hispanic voters
Crossposted from PolluterWatch. If you were the Koch brothers and you wanted to connect better with Latino and Hispanic voters, after you just dumped millions of your own cash into a presidential...
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TransCanada legally bribes ALEC lawmakers to support Keystone XL pipeline
Written by Nick Surgey, crossposted with permission from PR Watch. In October 2012, nine U.S. state legislators went on an industry paid trip to explore the Alberta tar sands. Publicly described as an...
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The EnvironmentaLIST: The most dangerous “model” laws written by ALEC
The same law that contributed to George Zimmerman walking free out of a Florida courtroom last weekend after taking the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was primarily written by the same super...
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Dirty Hands: 77 ALEC Bills in 2013 Advance a Big Oil, Big Ag Agenda
Written by Brendan Fisher, crossposted from the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch. At least 77 bills to oppose renewable energy standards, support fracking and the controversial Keystone XL...
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Exposed: ALEC’s new anti-environmental agenda in Chicago this week
New internal documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveal new methods that fossil fuel companies, agrochemical interests and corporate lobbying groups will influence certain...
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A Side of Climate Change Denial with Your Coffee? ALEC Dishes up Some Hard to...
By Lisa Graves Crossposted from Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch This morning in Chicago hundreds of primarily Republican state legislators are getting more indoctrination against doing...
View ArticleFive Climate Questions We’d Love to see ALEC try to Answer
Written by Kert Davies – former Research Director of Greenpeace USA – crossposted with permission from Climate Investigations Center: Five Questions on Climate Change for Lisa Nelson, ALEC CEO. Five...
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ALEC Climate Science Denial Blasted by Senator
Despite the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in helping billionaires, Big Oil, Coal, Tobacco, the gun lobby and other dubious corporate interests infiltrate our state lawmaking...
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Climate Denial Ain’t Slick: BP Dumps ALEC
It was one thing when Google chairman Eric Schmidt told the world that Google was leaving a lobbying group called ALEC for “literally lying” about climate change. It’s another for one of the world’s...
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ALEC Denies that ALEC Denies Climate Change
Here’s a headline you might expect to see on Reddit’s “Not The Onion” page: Washington Post: This conservative group is tired of being accused of climate denial — and is fighting back The “conservative...
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