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After a year of participating in the American Legislative Exchange Council, Microsoft has decided that even tangential alignment with a high-profile oil-funded lobby is not what it wants. ALEC has been criticised by groups such as Greenpeace for lobbying against state-level clean energy and climate policies in America. Redmond has reportedly sent a statement to The Sustainability Group of Loring, Wolcott and Coolidge and Walden Asset Management, which had criticised its involvement, saying its no longer involved. Common Cause says the statement reads: “In 2014 Microsoft decided to no longer participate in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Communications and Technology Task Force, which had been our only previous involvement with ALEC. With this decision, we no longer contribute any dues to ALEC…we are no longer members of ALEC and do not provide the organisation with financial support of any kind.”
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:51:48 +0000

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