Barack Obama's Emissions Plan Comes Under New Line of Attack

The central pillar of Barack Obama's climate change agenda has come under a new line of co-ordinated attack from influential lobbying networks involving Republican politicians and big business.

The Guardian has learned that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a free market group of state legislators funded in part by coal and oil companies such as Peabody Energy and Koch Industries, launched a much broader style of campaigning in 2014 to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Documents obtained by the Guardian offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of ALEC as the organisation tried to drum up opposition from coal, oil and electricity industry groups and state officials.

Barack Obama's Emissions Plan Comes Under New Line of Attack