Corporate bill mill ALEC will push bills to protect failing charter schools, silence political speech, and more. Preview the ALEC 2016 agenda.
ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders
By Jessica Mason and Lisa Graves | at
Environment
Peabody Coal Bankruptcy Reveals Climate Denial Network Funding
By Nick Surgey | at
The recipients of funding from Peabody Energy were made public in the company’s recent bankruptcy filings.
Is the EPA Being Pressured on Atrazine? New Findings of Environmental Concerns about Syngenta’s Crop Chemical Removed from EPA Site
By Lisa Graves | at
A new scientific analysis of the health risks associated with widely used herbicide atrazine, disappears from EPA website.
DCI Group Subpoenaed in Expanding Exxon Climate Denial Investigation
By Nick Surgey | at
The investigation into ExxonMobil climate change denial continues as court filings show a subpoena has been issued to the PR firm, DCI Group.
Lawyer Tormenting Scientists Revealed Working For Coal Company
By Nick Surgey | at
Bankruptcy filings reveal Chris Horner, a DC-based lawyer, climate change denier and Fox News regular, is being paid as a “Regulatory Counsel” for the coal company, Alpha Natural Resources.
Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy
By Jessica Mason and Calvin Sloan | at
Part of an emerging national trend, the Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to approve a bill that would prohibit local communities from issuing their own rules on plastic bags and other containers.
Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funding for Climate Denial Legal Group
By Nick Surgey | at
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute–a group best known for filing lawsuits seeking climate scientists’ personal emails–has secretly received funding from Arch Coal, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S.
Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC
By Nick Surgey | at
Ford responded to consumer concern over its membership in ALEC.
CMD Submits Evidence of ExxonMobil Funding ALEC’s Climate Change Denial to California Attorney General
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
Yep, it’s true, #ExxonKnew. ExxonMobil has promoted climate change denial as a major funder of ALEC.
The Market Has Spoken: Funders Flee “Free-Market” Climate Denial Group
By Nick Surgey | at
CFACT, a US climate change denial group that espouses the “free-market,” has lost more than two thirds of its funding in the past two years, according to tax filings reviewed by the Center for Media and Democracy.