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ALEC calls for penalties on ‘freerider’ homeowners in assault on clean energy
• Documents reveal conservative group’s anti-green agenda
• Strategy to charge people who install their own solar panels
• Environmentalists accuse Alec of protecting utility firms’ profits
• ALEC facing funding crisis after exodus of big donors
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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Ed Pilkington in New York
theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013 12.49 EST
Solar panels on a home in Los Angeles
Solar panels on a home in Los Angeles. Alec will promote legislation planning to penalise individual homeowners who install solar panels. Photograph: Cultura/Rex
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, the Guardian has learned.
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, which is Barack Obama’s main channel for climate action.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy
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Post time: Feb-10-2017