Tide Turning Against Koch Front Group ALEC In The Renewable Energy Battle
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
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Koch Front Group ALEC Threatens Progressives With A Lawsuit For Calling Out Its Lies
Most people have a very well-defined threshold that no-one dares cross when it comes to accusing them of some character...
Powerful right wing lobby plots to stop minimum wage hikes
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
Thom Hartmann Discusses the Corporate War On Solar Power
Thom Hartmann and Brendan Fischer discuss the war waged by ALEC, the Kochs, and the Waltons against the ability for...
‘Right to Work’ Benefits CEOs, Not Workers
Earlier this month, in the sparsely populated Kentucky county that’s home to Bowling Green, officials voted to convert the place...
Koch-Tied Group Pushes New Union Busting Bill in Wisconsin
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst: An ALEC Shill?
The battle between Democratic congressman Bruce Braley and Republican state Sen. Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s next US senator couldn’t...
Some ALEC Funders Flee, but Koch, Big Tobacco, and PhRMA Remain Loyalists
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
ALEC Offshoot Tries to Hijack Local Governments
After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching...
ALEC Agenda: Medicaid, Schools, and Exporting Our Gas
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Koch Political Universe Vaster Than Previously Known
Newly-obtained documents show that the billionaire Koch brothers’ political giving is much more expansive than has previously been known. In...
Fossil Fuel Front Groups Attack Clean Energy Policies
Fossil fuel and utility interests, concerned about the rise of cheap clean energy, are financing attacks on pro–clean energy policies,...
Koch Brothers, ALEC, Grover Norquist Target Solar Energy
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
UAW President Bob King: Americans are starting to catch on to ALEC’s anti-worker agenda
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Koch-backed lobbying group’s aggressive new plan to take down the EPA, revealed
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri’s Schools
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
ALEC and the Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy with Surcharges
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
