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ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: December 30th, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-...
An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels casting them as "freeriders" in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy. Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, [the government's] main channel for climate action. Details of ALEC's strategy to block clean energy development at every stage from the individual rooftop to the White House are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week. About 800 state legislators and business leaders are due to attend the three-day event, which begins ... with appearances by the Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson and the Republican budget guru and fellow Wisconsinite Paul Ryan. Other ALEC speakers will be a leading figure behind the recent government shutdown, US senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and the governors of Indiana and Wyoming. For 2014, ALEC plans to promote a suite of model bills and resolutions aimed at blocking Barack Obama from cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and state governments from promoting the expansion of wind and solar power through regulations known as Renewable Portfolio Standards. ALEC [wants] to lower the rate electricity companies pay homeowners for direct power generation and maybe even charge homeowners for feeding power into the grid.
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