“Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will end its involvement with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative advocacy group, reportedly because of the group’s lobbying against renewable energy.

CNET reported that Microsoft would cease being a member of ALEC’s communications and technology task force.

“In 2014 Microsoft decided to no longer participate in the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Communications and Technology Task Force, which had been our only previous involvement with ALEC,” the software company said in a statement, per CNET.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.

*Read more here from Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/microsoft-leaves-alec