Membership list of ALEC published (4 of 5 major oil companies included)

[kristopher]

Four Big Oil Companies Are Members Of ALEC Task Forces
By Rebecca Leber on May 7, 2012 at 9:37 am

The American Legislative Exchange Council’s anti-environment agenda is fueled by none other than Big Oil companies, which sit on ALEC’s “task forces.”

The watchdog group Common Cause published ALEC’s full member list, revealing four of the five major oil companies behind the group’s anti-environment legislation. These four oil companies — Shell, BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil — are also the four most profitable, taking a combined $30.6 billion profits in just three months this year.

Koch Industries, ubiquitous in funding right-wing causes, is also one of ALEC’s corporate members, while ConocoPhillips has its own history of funding the group.

ALEC’s agenda includes crafting legislation that kills carbon pricing and renewable energy targets, turns over public lands, and prevents fracking disclosure laws, among other harmful laws....

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/07/478508/four-big-oil-companies-are-members-of-alec-task-forces/


Link to list at Common Cause: http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=8078765


Also from Climate Progress blog:

Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers, XL Group Announce Withdrawal from ‘Radical’ Heartland Institute
By Climate Guest Blogger on May 7, 2012 at 1:42 pm
To add your voice to the petition calling on corporations to end support for the Heartland Institute, click here.
http://act.engagementlab.org/sign/climate_killers/

[Greg K]

1. Shocking!

Only four??