It's a bad time to be a right wing front. Last week, a group of tech companies including Yelp, Google, Facebook dropped their membership in ALEC. After a spectacular takedown of the group's position on climate change by Google's CEO, ALEC shot back. Clever as they may have though maligning a former corporate member to be, it looks like ALEC end succeeded in shooting itself in the foot.
Earlier today, news broke that Occidental Petroleum was leaving ALEC:
Occidental Petroleum sent a letter Friday to an investment-management company indicating its intention to sever ties with ALEC, a conservative coalition of state legislators and major corporations that actively opposes environmental regulations.
"There are no plans to continue Occidental's membership in, or make further payments to, ALEC," the company said in a letter to Walden Asset Management obtained by National Journal. Occidental declined to comment on the letter...
But Occidental's letter notes a concern that it could be "presumed to share the positions" on global warming and regulations to limit air pollution from the nation's fleet of power plants held by organizations of which the company is a member, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade association for the oil and gas industry.
It's time to keep the #ALECExodus rolling. The map below lists the US headquarters of ALEC's remaining corporate members. If you click on the map below, you can find out which ALEC funders are in your area, and encourage them to drop the group.