Conservative ALEC Planning Anti-Environmental Onslaught

Posted by | December 3, 2014 23:00 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Planet Politics Stuart Shapiro

Republish
Reprint


The American Legislative Exchange Council has been a powerful arm of the conservative movement often drafting model legislation that Republicans have introduced across the country and in Congress.  And in the wake of election victories by the GOP, they have big plans:

On the agenda for its environment and energy task force are draft model bills that will seek to disband the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expand offshore oil drilling, and weaken environmental protections for smog and other air pollutants, as well as roll back protections for endangered species.

The top priority appears to be rolling back the main pillar of Obama’s climate action plan: new rules to limit carbon pollution from power plants now being rolled out by the EPA.

Under the most extreme proposal, Alec would urge Congress to gut the EPA entirely, cutting its environmental protection budget by 75%, and delegating its powers to 300 state agency employees.

Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.

6 responses to Conservative ALEC Planning Anti-Environmental Onslaught

  1. Obewon December 4th, 2014 at 02:10

    How far will the Koch Brothers ALEC Anti-Environmental suicide go? Their Government Shutdown was planned for months by Koch Bros and Reagan’s AG Ed Meese. http://radio.foxnews.com/2013/10/06/government-shutdown-was-planned-for-months-by-ed-meese-koch-bros

  2. Obewon December 4th, 2014 at 03:10

    How far will the Koch Brothers ALEC Anti-Environmental suicide go? Their Government Shutdown was planned for months by the Koch Bros and Reagan’s AG Ed Meese. http://radio.foxnews.com/2013/10/06/government-shutdown-was-planned-for-months-by-ed-meese-koch-bros

  3. fahvel December 4th, 2014 at 13:52

    ah, the fine americans at work – how the public supports scum like this is beyond understanding.

  4. fahvel December 4th, 2014 at 14:52

    ah, the fine americans at work – how the public supports scum like this is beyond understanding.

  5. Charlie Seivard December 4th, 2014 at 17:23

    They can plan all the legislation they want and that will not stop the reality of the coming climate disaster. ALEC will suffocate, drown, starve, or fry just like the rest of us.

  6. Charlie Seivard December 4th, 2014 at 18:23

    They can plan all the legislation they want and that will not stop the reality of the coming climate disaster. ALEC will suffocate, drown, starve, or fry just like the rest of us.

Leave a Reply