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Rewriting the Rules about the Environment, Energy, and Agriculture
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[[File:Environment.jpg|
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'''Through ALEC, corporations have both a VOICE and a VOTE on specific changes to state laws on these issues through these model bills. ''Do you?'' '''
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You can access these ALEC "model" environmental bills
[[Bills Affecting our Water, Air, & Land|here]].
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[[Bills Affecting our Water, Air, & Land|
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You can download a one-page fact sheet about ALEC and the environment
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[http://alecexposed.org/w/images/b/bd/ALEC_on_Environment.pdf
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'''For a full list of bills from this section, [[Bills Affecting our Water, Air, & Land|click here]]'''
'''For a full list of bills from this section, [[Bills Affecting our Water, Air, & Land|click here]]'''
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'''This information is available for download as a two-page fact sheet [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/d/db/ALEC_on_Environment_2.pdf here].'''
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Some of this Corporate Agenda Has Already Become Law
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ALEC Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change
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[[Image
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by
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Jill Richardson
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As the U.S. suffers through catastrophic tornadoes, heat waves, and other climate extremes
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no doubt just a small taste of what the climate crisis will bring in the future
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polluting industries and the politicians that serve them want to convince you that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually a good thing.
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For an updated look at ALEC's education agenda in Wisconsin
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see the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth report
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[http://alecexposed.org/w/images/c/cd/ALEC_Exposed_in_Wisconsin
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pdf ALEC Exposed in Wisconsin:
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Hijacking of a State]
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Last December
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Republican legislators in state houses across the nation sounded the alarm about an
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out of control" Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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What had the EPA suddenly done to earn such criticism?
The
EPA had dared to take the first baby steps towards regulating greenhouse gas emissions
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By January 2011, Indiana became the first state to pass a resolution urging Congress to prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions (by defunding the EPA if necessary), to impose a two year moratorium on any new air quality regulations, and urging the federal government to complete a study identifying all planned regulatory activity by the EPA and its impact on the economy, jobs, and American economic competitiveness.
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'''This information is available for download as a two-page fact sheet
[http://
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images/d/db/ALEC_on_Environment_2.pdf
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Read the rest of the article
[http://
www.prwatch
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'''This information is available for download as a one-page fact sheet [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/6/63/ALEC_on_Environment_3.pdf here].'''
'''This information is available for download as a one-page fact sheet [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/6/63/ALEC_on_Environment_3.pdf here].'''
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READ the "Model Bills" HERE
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[[Image:Point.png|left|70px]][[media:Agriculture.zip|
Click here for a zip file of '''Agriculture''' bills]]
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[[Image:Point.png|left|70px]][[media:Energy.zip|
Click here for a zip file of '''Energy''' bills]]
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[[Image:Point.png|left|70px]][[media:Environment.zip|
Click here for a zip file of '''Environment''' bills]]
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For a full list of individual bills from this section, [[Bills Affecting our Water, Air, & Land|click here]]
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''For descriptions of some of these bills, [[#How are corporations undermining environmental conservation in these bills?| scroll down or click here]]''.
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Check out this recent story on ALEC and environmental issues in the Los Angeles Times by Tom Hamburger and Neela Banjeree, "[http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/13/nation/la-na-epa-states-20110714 State legislative bills raise conservative group's profile]" (July 13, 2011) and this follow-on story by Neela Banjeree, "[http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/14/news/la-pn-alec-common-cause-20110714 Common Cause accuses conservative group of lobbying, seeks IRS probe]" (July 14, 2011).
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