Thursday, December 5, 2013

ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy?CMP=ema_565

• 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

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

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