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Sen Whitehouse Calls Out ALEC for Role in Funding Climate Deniers
2015-03-13 15:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Despite the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in helping billionaires, Big Oil, Coal, Tobacco, the gun lobby and other dubious corporate interests to infiltrate our state lawmaking processes, its not every day you hear U.S. Senators name-drop ALEC during hearings. This week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took a swing at ALECs role in helping the fossil fuel lobby deny the science of climate change, during his weekly Time to Wake Up speech in the Senate. This comes at...
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