February 1, 2013
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5:14Now Playing"The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — known by its critics as a "corporate bill mill" — has hit the ground running in 2013, pushing "models bills" mandating the teaching of climate change denial in public school systems.
January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act," which mandates a "balanced" teaching of climate science in K-12 classrooms, in the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona so far this year. "*
ALEC wants to mandate that climate change denial be taught in public school science classes. Is this legalized religious lessons? Who is benefited by these bills, and who will suffer? Ana Kasparian and Desi Doyen break it down.
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