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Leaked calls reveal the conservative “master plan” to tank climate action
MIC: Leaked calls reveal the conservative “master plan” to tank climate action.
While the Biden administration is gearing up to combat climate change, Republicans are gearing up to combat that progress. In a series of leaked phone calls obtained by Grist, it was revealed that the American Legislative Exchange Council — better known as ALEC — is planning to pull out all the stops to kill any action taken on climate change.
While President Biden’s strategy to address climate change focuses largely on solutions issued from the federal level in the form of legislation, executive order, and action from federal agencies, ALEC is planning to mount its defense at the state level. According to Grist, the conservative nonprofit has floated three different controversial and legally dubious methods of exerting its influence over state legislatures in an attempt to thwart executive action on climate change. Those plans include passing nullification acts at the state level that would seek to label federal actions as unconstitutional (and therefore unenforceable); attempting to initiate a constitutional convention to pass amendments that would strengthen the legal authority of states; and passing non-binding resolutions to reaffirm the Tenth Amendment, declaring that any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is then up to the states.