April 25, 2013 12:00 PM
Bipartisan Vote Stops ALEC Plan to Kill NC's Renewable Energy
AFP NC State Director Dallas Woodhouse testifies that renewable energy mandates are punishing NC ratepayers.
North Carolina has been taking a pounding lately at the hands of Gov. Pat McCrory's ALEC-fueled legislature. Fracking, Voter ID, and Florida-style drug tests for recipients of public benefits like food stamps and job training are on the to-do list. With more to come. Remarkably, on Wednesday, the good guys won one.
North Carolina’s renewable energy industry is safe from legislative threats, for now. Republicans and Democrats in the sponsor’s own committee voted down his bill that would have repealed the state’s clean energy standard. This bill mimicked “model legislation” from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
