International oil and natural gas company, Occidental Petroleum, is severing its ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the latest in an exodus from the conservative group. In a letter to an investment management company, Walden Asset Management, Occidental said it would no longer be a member of ALEC, or support the group. “There are no plans to continue Occidental’s membership in, or make further payments to ALEC,” Occidental said in a letter sent to the management firm on Friday. Occidental is the latest in a string of companies to drop support of ALEC, the majority of which were technology giants. Last week, Google said it cut ties because of ALEC’s climate change skepticism, saying the group was “literally lying” about global warming.Read More.Source: The Hill/Laura Barron-Lopez