Some ALEC priorities include:

  1. Promoting coal, oil, and gas industries (representing the will of ALEC corporate members Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, Peabody Energy, Amoco)
  2. Slowing the development of solar energy and wind turbines (an ALEC supported bill in Oklahoma taxes individuals who use solar panels or wind turbines; ALEC supports legislation to tax people who drive electric cars)
  3. Opposing EPA regulation of greenhouse gases
  4. Legalizing fracking
  5. Reducing taxes on corporations
  6. Fighting against public health care; supporting the creation of individual medical accounts
  7. Reducing funding of public schools; diverting taxpayer money from public schools to for-profit private schools (some ALEC corporate members who benefit from the education privatization efforts include Amplify, K12 Inc., Imagine Learning, and Connections Academy, which served on the ALEC Education Task Force)
  8. Creating money making opportunities for profit driven corporations by converting as many government operations as possible to profit enterprises (education, prisons, foster care, pensions; the privatization of prisons benefits ALEC member Corrections Corporation of America and other for-profit prison companies)
  9. Promoting voter ID laws and other restrictive voting legislation
  10. Restricting what these local governments can do; since city councils and local school boards can often be a roadblock to ALEC’s agenda, state legislators are urged to pass legislation which limits local government action

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