…local democracy in Michigan, which has been orchestrated by a network of “think tanks” and committees backed by the billionaire DeVos family, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the Kochs, and…
ALEC Exposed: Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia
…seas continue to rise along Virginia’s coast, and other climate impacts are being felt across the Commonwealth. In particular, the state’s low-income communities/communities of color continue to bear the disproportionate…
Lawyer Tormenting Scientists Revealed Working For Coal Company
…begins, distracting from actual climate research. In his bio, Horner doesn’t mention Alpha or any other coal company, although he does list the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), “scientists,” and members…
CMD Calls on ALEC to Disclose Information during Sunshine Week
…echoed in public materials from 2011, ALEC boasted: “With our success rate at more than 20 percent, I would say that ALEC is a good investment. Nowhere else can you…
Barring Plastic Bag Bans, another ALEC Law Takes Aim at Local Democracy
…and Commerce (WMC) is the state chapter of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Wisconsin Restaurant Association (WRA) is the state chapter of the National Restaurant Association; both national…
Cashing in on Kids: 172 ALEC Education Bills Push Privatization in 2015
…HB 565 MO Public Employee Freedom Act HB 48 MO Public Employee Freedom Act HB 158 MO Public Employee Freedom Act HB 159 MO Public Employee Freedom Act HB 570…
Koch-ALEC Right to Work Power Play Exposed in a Small Illinois Village
…model bills that benefit their own bottom lines. The Lincolnshire bill’s operative language comes verbatim from this ALEC model. See the side by side comparison here. What the information packet…
Bankruptcy Filing Shows Arch Coal Funding for Climate Denial Legal Group
…Chris Horner personally, as well as to the Free Market Law Clinic. In 2015, CMD obtained an invitation and other materials from a private and highly secretive annual coal summit,…
Ford Becomes Latest Major Corporation to Dump ALEC
…key principles such as human rights, labor standards, and the environment. Ford claims that the company “is committed to doing our share to prevent or reduce the potential for environmental,…
TTIP of the Iceberg: Consumer Concerns Could Sink the US-EU Trade Agreement
…so successful in achieving in the United States. Corporate Courts Facilitate Trade Lawsuits and Threats of Lawsuits The TTIP’s early warning system combined with another retrograde provision in the TTIP,…