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Koch-Funded Special Interest Groups and Utilities Bankrolling ALEC Meeting Koch-funded groups and utilities are bankrolling ALEC's closed-door winter meeting and parties for state legislators that are underway in Scottsdale, Arizona, at a luxury resort and spa. The three-day gathering is bringing together lobbyists and legislators to plan their 2016 bill agenda for the upcoming legislative session. Koch-funded underwriters of the corporate bill mill's meeting includes the State Policy Network ("Chair's level" for $50,000); Frontiers of Freedom ("Vice Chair's level" for $25,000), and the Texas Public Policy Foundation ("Trustee's level" for $5,000), which recently hosted a conference of its own where numerous climate deniers criticized government action to address climate change. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Works to Scuttle Global Climate Agreement Two conferences took place 5,438 miles apart. The agendas could not be more different. The stakes could not be any higher. In Paris, 120 world leaders met under the auspices of the United Nations in an urgent effort to prevent catastrophic climate change, which threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions around the globe. In Arizona, global fossil fuel companies and giant utility firms went behind closed doors with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) politicians in a continued effort to derail any global agreement with state lawsuits designed to sink President Obama’s Clean Power Plan with cement boots. Read more here. ALEC Invites Politicians to "Plan Your 2016 Agenda" at ALEC Confab in Scottsdale This year, the American Legislative Exchange Council's winter meeting, which it calls the "States and Nation Policy Summit," will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa from December 2-4. ALEC has promoted this event as an invitation for legislators to use the meeting to "plan your 2016 agenda." In Arizona, ALEC lawmakers will hear from a number of prominent speakers in corporate-sponsored plenary sessions and workshops, then retreat into "task force" meetings to vote as equals on "model bills" with corporate lobbyists and special interest groups. Read the rest of this item here.