

This is rich; quite literally.

Some of the backers of ALEC have "had it" with all the State-meddling into the Energy mix of local Electricity producers. Requiring them to increase their Renewable Energy output -- is down right Un-American, according to those who tell ALEC what to do ...



Full Show: United States of ALEC -- A Follow-Up

Moyers and Company -- June 21, 2013

29 states have laws requiring utilities to provide a portion of their electricity from renewable energy sources

Yet even as headlines about climate chaos confront us every day, ALEC is doing its damnedest to undermine the use of clean, renewable energy.

Take a look at this. It’s called the “Electricity Freedom Act” -- one of ALEC’s ‘model’ bills. Sounds great -- who doesn’t like freedom? But the bill amounts to an effort by the fossil fuel industry to curtail the freedom of states to set Renewable Energy Standards, by repealing those state laws.

In the last two years, 21 of the 29 states with Renewable Energy Standards have seen bills proposed that would weaken or repeal them, over half of them pushed by lawmakers with confirmed ALEC ties. In two states -- Ohio and New Hampshire -- such bills have already become law.

It will hardly surprise you that ALEC gets millions of dollars from the fossil fuel industry, or that companies that have served on the ALEC task force that produced the “Electricity Freedom Act” include representatives of -- hold your breath -- ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, and Koch Industries.