{"id":13316,"date":"2015-06-10T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/groups-urge-shell-to-cut-ties-with-alec\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:48:00","slug":"groups-urge-shell-to-cut-ties-with-alec","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/groups-urge-shell-to-cut-ties-with-alec\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Urge Shell To Cut Ties With ALEC"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13316","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"In a letter sent yesterday, 19 international investors called on Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies, to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a lobbying group composed of state legislators and corporate representatives.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8296}"],"related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Dans une lettre<\/a> sent yesterday, 19 international investors called on Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies, to leave the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a lobbying group composed of state legislators and corporate representatives.<\/p>

This is the latest in a series of calls for Shell to end its ALEC membership, largely due to ALEC’s promotion of climate science denial. In May, 99%<\/a> of Shell’s shareholders approved a resolution forcing Shell to review and manage its exposure to climate change risk.<\/p>

Last year, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of “literally lying” about climate change and severed Google’s ties with ALEC. In April, after dozens of corporations fled ALEC in part due to climate issues, ALEC issued legal threats<\/a> to organizations, including Common Cause and the League of Conservation Voters, for calling it a “climate denier.”<\/p>

The groups responded by launching ALECclimatechangedenial.org<\/a> to document ALEC’s promotion of climate denial and bad climate science. Other large fossil fuel companies that have recently left ALEC include BP<\/a> et Occidental Petroleum<\/a>.<\/p>

Statements from organizations concerned with Shell’s ALEC membership:<\/p>