Investigating Power
…groups including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). CMD has documented Exxon’s grants to ALEC and that group’s work to promote climate change denial in a letter sent to the…
…public scrutiny. But it also exposes the bankruptcy of the promises of transparency and better governance that helped corporate interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sell the…
…children are facing many budget challenges—due in part to continuing problems caused by the “TABOR” law, a controversial budget law peddled by the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is a…
This week, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) unveiled new documents showing the role that lobbyists for state chambers of commerce play in thwarting measures that American workers and,…
When considering American CEOs as a category, “empathetic” is not the first word that comes to mind. Yet, the fact that these top executives have empathy for their workers is…
…frontlines of the local opposition, working with other local affiliates of the National Restaurant Association, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and other corporate trade groups to slow or stop…
…was registered in April 2015 by Lorri Pickens, a former associate director of state operations for David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity (AFP) astroturf organization. A well-connected right-wing operative with a…
March 29, 2016–How did an American city’s water end up being poisoned with lead? This month’s hearing in Congress about the crisis in Flint, Michigan shed more heat than light…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 24, 2016 Contact: Kate Addleson, (703) 963-5800, [email protected] Report Reveals the Dangerous Influence of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Climate Policy in Virginia…
…the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), where Chris Horner is also a Senior Legal Fellow. Both Arch and Alpha also fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), another…
