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Google Becomes Latest Tech Giant to Drop A.L.E.C. Over Climate Denial
Microsoft, Facebook, Yelp and Yahoo are among other firms parting ways with the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has consistently opposed and obstructed climate change policies.
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Exposing ALEC: When Will U.S. Media Shine a Light on the Dark Lobby Empire?
Since 2011, the arch-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has lost more than 60 corporate members and nearly 400 state legislative members. But even this apparently isn't news enough to expose the shadow group.
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Revealed: ALEC Seeks Legislation to Punish Solar Power Users as "Freeriders"
The alliance of corporations and ultra-right activists known as the American Legislative Exchange Council is attempting to penalize homeowners who install solar panels on their houses and to block clean energy developments across the U.S.
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Obamacare Faces New Threat at State Level from Corporate Mega-Lobby ALEC
A new proposal by the American Legislative Exchange Council, approved at its annual meeting in Chicago in August and published as a model bill for adoption by state assemblies nationwide, would scupper the federal health insurance exchanges.
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Even Google Is Doing Evil with ALEC
Quietly, Google has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, the shadowy corporate alliance that pushes odious laws through state legislatures: cutting taxes for mega-corporations and the wealthy, privatizing schools and killing clean energy.
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Public Education At Peril With ALEC's Private Scholarship Tax Credits
Tuition scholarship tax credit laws being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council will use state tax codes to subsidize private or parochial education, with grave consequences for public education spending.
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Thousands of Protesters Descend on ALEC Convention In Chicago
A coalition of labor, community and environmental groups is making it clear that the ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council isn’t welcome in the union town.
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Big Money, ALEC and the Gun Agenda
Numerous bills to impede laws that would help protect Americans from gun violence were drafted by the NRA and adopted by ALEC corporations and legislators.
