Last year, Google made the news for dropping its support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The group supplies model legislation to conservative lawmakers in the hope that they will enact the bills on the state and federal level. Among its causes is climate change, but in an unusual twist, ALEC argues that climate change will be a good thing. In dropping support, Google Chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt accused the group of "just literally lying." Facebook, Yelp, and Yahoo, among others, followed Google out the door; Microsoft dropped its support previously.

Now, the National Journal has found that the fossil-fuel giant BP is also dropping support for ALEC. This marks the second departure by an oil and gas company; Occidental Petroleum dropped out of ALEC last year. It's in keeping with BP's public stance. Carl Henric Svanberg, BP's chairman, has called for a carbon tax, and the company has invested heavily in advertising that's meant to bolster its green credentials.

Not all of BP appears to be on board, however. Over the weekend, The Guardian reported that BP’s Political Action Committee, funded by executives of the company, was a supporter of the reelection campaign of Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), now the chair of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee. Inhofe thinks that climate change is a fraud, going so far as to title a book on the topic The Greatest Hoax. He's already thrown a snowball on the Senate floor in order to claim that the US East Coast's winter chill suggests climate science is mistaken, even as the rest of the planet experiences record high temperatures.

ALEC is plowing on with draft legislation that would do everything from block specific emissions rules to simply dismantling the EPA in order to prevent any actions on its part.

This story was updated to reflect Eric Schmidt's correct title of Chairman of the Board at Google, not CEO.