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
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 [...]
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" [...]
Jul 30, 2012
Very significant results of the ongoing campaign to make ALEC a toxic relationship for its corporate members. Reported on by Lisa Graves of CMD and re-posted here. Apparent among all of the excellent information she has provided, is the emergence of the State Policy Network (SPN) as perhaps the “heir apparent” to ALEC? To find [...]
Jul 20, 2012
Two more corporations have publicly left the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC): EnergySolutions, a nuclear services company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Connections Education, LLC, a private school entity based in Baltimore, Maryland, that contracts with charter schools, school districts, or governmental entities to provide “online” lessons to students. This brings the total [...]
May 30, 2012
You should all be aware of the group Color of Change, mentioned in conjunction with the ALEC corporate defectors along with Common Cause and other large national public interest groups sharing in the limelight. What Color of Change did was to go to Coca Cola, for example, and say “we can’t have you selling your [...]
May 2, 2012
This is a lot more than the standard ColorOfChange/Common Cause “get out of jail free” card. This is very significant not only of the action itself, but if you follow the links to some of the individuals who will be taking over this task force…Watch Out! “The national certifying body for teachers in the United [...]
