Mar 15, 2013
Duke Energy & Koch Brothers kill clean energy in North Carolina by Connor Gibson 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 state’s General Assembly. House Bill 298 would fully repeal North Carolina’s renewable portfolio standard (RPS)–a [...]
Mar 13, 2013
from the archives of 2old2care at BecauseICan ALEC 1975 By Laws ARTICLE II PURPOSES Section 2.01 The purposes and objectives of ALEC shall be to work in cooperation will the private sector to promote individual liberty, limited government and free enterprise. To achieve such goals ALEC shall: 1. Assist legislators in the states by [...]
Mar 13, 2013
A recent flood of Koch-supported think tanks, junk scientists and astroturf groups from inside and outside of Kansas are awaiting the outcome of a bill this week that could stall progress on the growth of clean energy in Kansas. States around the country, including Texas, Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina are poised to cut back [...]
Feb 25, 2013
The secretive funding network distributed $118m to 102 groups including some of the best-known thinktanks on the right Dozens of exhibitors promote their oil and gas related businesses. By 2010, Donors Trust had distributed $118m to 102 thinktanks or action groups. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA (editors note: VLTP has previously noted Donor’s Trust, the American [...]
Feb 3, 2013
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) - known by its critics as a “corporate bill mill” – has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing “models bills” mandating the teaching of climate change denial in public school systems. January hasn’t even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its ”Environmental Literacy Improvement Act“ - which mandates a “balanced” teaching of climate [...]
Jan 24, 2013
Walden Asset Management spearheads a letter-writing campaign by shareowners urging corporations to review their memberships in the controversial organizations. Tim Smith of Walden Management was instrumental in getting Bank of America to quit ALEC. SocialFunds.com — Following the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in January, 2010, the years-long campaign by investors to pressure corporations [...]
Dec 2, 2012
Actually, in the Media Matters article, it’s named Meet The Climate Change Denial Machine. But as you read through this you will recognize the common thread that runs through this article–members of what we have been calling “The Cabal”. The ALEC/Koch/Radical Right Cabal and how they create and use their Echo Chamber to push their [...]
Oct 8, 2012
Featured image from Big Education Ape Blog State Sen. David Holt, R-Oklahoma City, has announced he will introduce legislation in 2013 that will allow parents to overhaul chronically low-performing schools: “A parent trigger law in Oklahoma would provide a way to break old patterns, and empower the people that are most invested in success — [...]
Sep 29, 2012
This is actually an old article I ran across today – from 1998. The same year Hillary Clinton spoke up about the “vast right-wing conspiracy”. Published in the conservative Washington Times, the article heaped a lot of scorn on the NEA’s findings. But that is not the object of this post… [note: "the fold" [...]
