<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><h1 itemprop="name headline " style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2px; border-collapse: collapse; border-right-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); border-left-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.154; width: 460px; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 26px; position: static; z-index: auto;">ALEC calls for penalties on 'freerider' homeowners in assault on clean energy</h1><div itemprop="description" id="stand-first" class="stand-first-alone" data-component="Article:standfirst_cta" style="padding: 0px 0px 34px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.25; width: 460px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; font-size: 12px;">• <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/842268-alec-2013-annual-meeting-policy-report.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Documents reveal</a> conservative group's anti-green agenda<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">• Strategy to charge people who install their own solar panels</div><div itemprop="description" id="stand-first" class="stand-first-alone" data-component="Article:standfirst_cta" style="padding: 0px 0px 34px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.25; width: 460px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; font-size: 12px;"><span style="line-height: 1.25;">• Environmentalists accuse Alec of protecting utility firms</span><span style="line-height: 26px;">’</span><span style="line-height: 1.25;"> profits</span></div><div style="font-family: Futura-Medium; font-size: 19px;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy</a></div></body></html>