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IER has been established as a [[501(c)(3)]] non-profit group. It is a "partner" organization of the [[American Energy Alliance]]<ref>[http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/index.php American Energy Alliance] American Energy Alliance website, accesses October 2008.</ref>, a [[501c4]] organization which states that it is the "grassroots arm" of IER.<ref name="Mission">[http://www.americanenergyalliance.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=35 "Mission Statement"], American Energy Alliance website, accessed October 2008.</ref> AEA states that, by "communicating IER’s decades of scholarly research to the grassroots, AEA will empower citizens with facts so that people who believe in freedom can reclaim the moral high ground in the national public policy debates in the energy and environmental arena."<ref name="Mission"/> AEA states that its aim is to "create a climate that encourages the advancement of free market energy policies" and in particular ensure drilling for oil is allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and in US coastal waters.<ref name="Mission"/>

==Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council==

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