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Google quits ALEC over climate change; making the world a worse place, says Schmidt

on Sep 28, 2014 | 0 comments

By Noel Young

Google is to stop working with the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council because of its stance on climate change, Bloomberg reports.

Google chairman, Eric Schmidt said on Diane Rehm’s National Public Radio show, that his company had funded ALEC in support of “something unrelated. … I think the consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake, and so we’re trying to not do that in the future.”

Schmidt told Rehm that people on the wrong side of the climate change debate were “making the world a much worse place,”

He’d concluded “we should not be aligned Read full story ›

Source: The Drum