{"id":10465,"date":"2015-07-28T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2015-07-28T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:46:08","slug":"new-report-reveals-corporate-funded-hydra-head-blocking-u-s-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10465","title":{"rendered":"New Report Reveals Corporate-Funded Hydra Head Blocking U.S. Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Report Reveals Corporate-Funded Hydra Head Blocking U.S. Renewable Energy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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A new report from the\u00a0Energy and Policy Institute<\/a>\u00a0reveals the fossil fuel- and utility sector-funded network working to curb the proliferation of renewable energy in the United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n

Co-authored by Gabe Elsner and Matt Kasper and titled, \u201cAttacks on Renewable Energy Policy in 2015,\u201d the 86-page report shines a spotlight on the bevy of coordinated attacks on renewable energy policy happening in\u00a0in Washington and\u00a0all fifty\u00a0states.<\/p>\n

Why all 50? Because that’s how this network flexes its muscle and advances corporate\u00a0interests.<\/p>\n

Look no further than the\u00a0State Policy Networl (SPN<\/span>)<\/a>, an entity created by the\u00a0American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC<\/span>)<\/a>\u00a0corporate bill mill, which acts as the central hub around which the rest of the spokes in the think-tank (or \u201cstink tank<\/a>\u201d) and public relations wheel connect. Both of these groups play a central role in the\u00a0report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnce\u00a0ALEC<\/span>\u00a0model bills are introduced, allied legislators and fossilfuel-funded front groups cite flawed reports to back up their reasoning to either repeal or weaken\u201d laws favorable to advancing renewable energy, the report explains. \u201c[Thereafter], State Policy Network lobbyists\u2026[provide] testimony in favor of the\u00a0ALEC<\/span>\u00a0bills. Finally, fossil fuel-funded members groups, such as Americans for Prosperity, put additional pressure on lawmakers to pass\u00a0ALEC<\/span>\u00a0model\u00a0bills.\u201d<\/p>\n

But\u00a0ALEC<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0SPN<\/span>\u00a0are just two examples and although they play a pivotal role, the report points to 23 other industry-funded front groups also part of the anti-renewable influence peddling machine. Others include names familiar to DeSmog readers, including the\u00a0Koch<\/a>-funded\u00a0Americans for Prosperity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Institute for Energy Research<\/a>, the\u00a0Heartland Institute<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA<\/span>)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0others.<\/p>\n

Not Just Money in Politics,\u00a0Lobbying<\/h3>\n

The report has citation after citation raising dire questions about the state,\u00a0and often lack thereof,\u00a0of\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0democracy. But just as important is the premise it\u00a0presents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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New Report Reveals Corporate-Funded Hydra Head Blocking U.S. Renewable Energy A new report from the\u00a0Energy and Policy Institute\u00a0reveals the fossil fuel- and utility sector-funded network working to curb the proliferation of renewable energy in the United\u00a0States. Co-authored by Gabe Elsner and Matt Kasper and titled, \u201cAttacks on Renewable Energy Policy in 2015,\u201d the 86-page report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,6],"tags":[5317,7591,7592,7596,7595,674,7594,7593],"class_list":["post-10465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-desmog-blog","tag-energy-and-policy-institute","tag-gabe-elsner","tag-hydra","tag-matt-kasper","tag-renewable-energy","tag-spn","tag-state-policy-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}