Trend Results : Legislative Exchange Council

New Draft Fracking Rules Give Industry a Free Pass, But Were They Written By ExxonMobil?

DeSmogBlog notes that the Bureau of Land Managemen’s recently-released rules governing fracking on federal lands ”will adopt the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bill written by ExxonMobil for fracking chemical fluid disclosure on U.S. Show More Summary

ALEC diagram of power, access, and money

"Shortly after the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) told the press 'we really believe in transparency,' new documents show the organization directing legislators to hide ALEC meeting agendas and model legislation from the public." Read more: http://bit.ly/16eApZd from CommonDreams.org Great image of the cycle of money, influence peddling, and state government bills.

James P. Hoffa: ALEC's War on Workers

Corporations are upping the ante in their attempt to take control of the political process. Under the guise of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),...

ALEC-Orchestrated Bill To Preempt Paid Sick Leave Passes Florida Senate

The push for paid sick days in various cities and states has won some crucial victories, the latest of which was in New York City. But “preemption bills,” laws orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that override any efforts to implement paid sick days, are also gaining speed, with the latest passed by [...]

South Dakota Pays For Lawmakers’ ALEC Membership

South Dakota will now subsidize a hundred lawmakers’ memberships to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative corporate front group, after a vote Tuesday by the Republican-controlled Legislature Executive Board. Lawmakers will also continue to receive perks like unlimited travel to out-of-state ALEC meetings. Show More Summary

How ALEC is working to criminalize factory farm whistleblowers

Legislative efforts to silence animal advocacy groups are cropping up across the country. It should probably not be a surprise that the American Legislative Exchange Council appears to be responsible.

Two Major Florida Newspapers Ignore ALEC Connection In Pension Coverage

The Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times failed to connect the American Legislative Exchange Council model legislation to the current efforts to change the pension plans of Floridians. Ashley Lopez of the Florida Center for Investigative...Show More Summary

How ALEC Is Fueling Efforts To Block Paid Sick Leave And Other Pro-Worker Policies

Our guest blogger is Rachel Curley, an intern at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been described as a “collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators”, is waging a campaign against workers, especially those in minimum wage jobs with few to no benefits. The National [...]

New NELP Study Shows that ALEC Is Engaged in Widespread Campaign to Suppress Wages

A new report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP) shows that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is engaged in a widespread campaign to suppress the wages of already low-wage workers. ALEC has created model legislation that is designed to weaken or repeal state minimum wage laws, reduce minimum wages for young workers and tipped workers, [...]

American Legislative Exchange Council behind push to lower minimum wages: report

How Conservatives Are Manipulating Renewable Energy Standards

This article was originally published on Climate Progress. By Tiffany Germain and Matt Kasper As the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, continue to target states’ renewable energy standard (RES)...Show More Summary

The Loophole That’s Letting Conservatives Manipulate Renewable Energy Standards

By Tiffany Germain and Matt Kasper As the Heartland Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, continue to target states’ renewable energy standard (RES) with their model legislation — the Electricity Freedom Act — conservative lawmakers are using other unethical tactics to weaken or repeal standards. Currently, at least five states — Connecticut, [...]

Steve Horn: ALEC Sham Chemical Disclosure Model Tucked Into Illinois Fracking Bill

Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s target list for putting the oil industry's interests ahead of the public interest.

ALEC Sham Chemical Disclosure Model Tucked Into Illinois Fracking Bill

Illinois is the next state on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)'s target list for putting the oil industry's interests ahead of the public interest. 98 percent funded by multinational corporations,   ALEC is  described by its critics as a " corporate bill mill " and a lobbyist-legislator dating service. Show More Summary

Bruce Kushnick: The New 'Digital Dead Zones' and Removing Your Rights to Communicate: Deny the AT&T FCC Petition Now

AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink, who are corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), have declared war on the American public.

Not-so-smart ALEC: How the lobbying group uses bad data to fight clean energy

The American Legislative Exchange Council argues against state renewable-energy requirements using flawed studies that vastly overestimate the cost of wind energy.

ALEC Policies Sell ‘Snake Oil to the States’

Three national organizations offered a scathing criticism of policies endorsed by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, in a conference call with reporters last week. Their findings strike a stake in the heart of ALEC claims that its view of the world — lower taxes, fewer workplace protections, and diminished public investments — is good for the public.

Kansas Bill Would Require Teachers To Misinform Students About Climate Change

Last week, the Kansas House Education Committee introduced a bill that would mandate teachers present denier arguments as valid in the classroom, becoming the latest state to take up one of American Legislative Exchange Council’s “model bills” aiming to misrepresent climate change in schools. Kansas would join Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Oklahoma as the fifth [...]

Oklahoma, Colorado And Arizona Push ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In Schools

By Steve Horn Via DeSmogBlog 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 [...]

Three States Pushing ALEC Bill To Require Teaching Climate Change Denial In Schools

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...Show More Summary