Renewable energy laws in cross-hairs of conservative groups

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Renewable energy advocates made an unsuccessful push last year to expand Missouri's green power law and help lessen the state's dependence on fossil fuels. But the same groups may spend 2013 on defense, working to fend off a movement among conservative groups such as the Heartland Institute and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform that seek to dismantle such mandates across the country. Their tool for doing so is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-backed group of mostly...

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