Yahoo and Google have become the latest companies to sever ties with the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, amidst a nationwide campaign against the secretive group. ALEC joins corporate lobbyists with state lawmakers to craft model bills introduced in legislatures nationwide. This week in an interview with NPR, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said funding ALEC had been a “mistake” and accused them of “making the world a much worse place” by lying about climate change.