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Is the Future of the Planet in ALEC's Secret Hands?
Let's talk about the real obstacle to fighting climate change in America: ALEC. Tomorrow, ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council - kicks off its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. The group, which has already brought America such favorites as stand-your-ground-shoot-first laws and voter suppression ID laws, now has its sights set on preventing clean energy policies from spreading across the U.S.
ALEC gets a lot of its funding from Big Oil and utility corporations, so it's only natural that it would be working feverishly to craft "model legislation" that continues America's toxic - and deadly - addiction to fossil fuels. Over the past decade alone, ALEC has received over $500,000 from Big Oil-friendly Koch Brothers-backed foundations, and millions more from Big Oil giants like ExxonMobil.
Chris Taylor, a Democratic lawmaker from Wisconsin who snuck into ALEC's annual meeting in Chicago last year, said, "A part of ALEC's battle is to preserve an old economy, where coal, oil and gas remain supreme. Their defense of these industries represents the will of corporate members."
And Nick Surgey, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, told Think Progress that, "According to the meeting agenda, legislators will be schooled on how industry wants them to talk about climate change," He went on to say that there will be a heavy focus on the EPA's new regulations, and that corporate lobbyists from ExxonMobil, BP, and Koch Industries will be crafting model legislation that opposes limiting carbon emissions from coal plants.
-Thom
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