Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry

 

<span>Photograph: Matthew Brown/AP</span>

 

A growing effort is underway in Oklahoma, Texas and other oil and gas states to adopt state laws to block boycotts of the oil industry.

Much of it is led by the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a conservative lobby group considered by many to be quite influential. ALEC is promoting  the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, to shield big oil from share selloffs and other measures intended to protest the fossil fuel industry’s role in the climate crisis reported The Guardian.

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