ALEC IS EVIL!!! Many of these so-called reforms expand or institutionalize requirements that delay and weaken important regulations and increase the already outsized influence of corporations in setting environmental, food, consumer, and worker safety policies. Two key policy changes these anti-regulatory interests support include: 1) increasing the power of a politicized centralized review body with the authority to second-guess the standards proposed by scientists and substantive experts; and 2) requiring new, more extensive economic analyses of the costs of new standards. Moratoriums on new rules are also being promoted in the states. The anti-regulatory initiatives in the states have been largely driven by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a network of corporate interests and their allies in state legislatures. ALEC promotes model state bills that cover everything from the privatization of prisons and foster care services to environmental rollbacks. ALEC is pushing model state legislation that would make it harder for state public health, environmental, and labor agencies to issue new health and safety standards. In addition, ALEC has championed efforts to prohibit local governments from adopting standards stronger than those on the state or federal levels.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:58:15 +0000
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