Last week, at the States and Nation Policy Summit held by the American Legislative Exchange Council, Jason Isaac, director of the Koch-funded Texas Public Policy Foundation declared war against “woke financial institutions that are colluding against American energy producers,” according to an email obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
ALEC seems to be taking a few pages out of the heated battle against “critical race theory” in Texas’ K-12 curriculum. At the event, the group’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, voted to back two pieces of model legislation that portray climate policy as “unfairly discriminating against fossil fuel companies.”