Koch Brothers
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The Koch brothers preached the fossil fuel gospel in Virginia. Then, black churches fought back.
The fossil fuel lobby preached its gospel in Virginia. Now, black churches are fighting back.
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Charles Koch finds a lot of things scary — except climate change
The 80-year-old billionaire says the climate is changing "in a mild and manageable way."
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Breaking: The climate is changing because a Koch brother said so
Hear that, climate deniers? Daddy is on our side, now.
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How the Koch brothers grew their tentacles
Jane Mayer's new book traces the story of the conservative billionaires who are trying to reshape the American political landscape.
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Critical List: More droughts and floods coming; Koch super PAC hits Obama on green energy
The earth’s water cycle is speeding up twice as fast as climate models predicted, which means more droughts and more floods. The Kochs’ super PAC spent $6.1 million — more money than it’s ever spent before on a single ad — on this ad criticizing the president’s green energy spending. Now Peru has a domestic […]
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Secret Heartland Institute memos map a climate-denial campaign
Looks like someone has pulled a Climategate on denialist think tank the Heartland Institute. (Is “think tank” the correct term for an institution devoted to spreading misinformation? Maybe “lie tank” is better.) Turns out that — surprise surprise — they take donations from the Koch brothers, as well as tobacco companies and Microsoft. And then […]
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Koch fiends: AFP’s favorite members of Congress
Americans for Prosperity gave five senators and 39 representatives perfect scores for their votes to uphold the Koch agenda in Congress.
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Koch-funded group complains about ‘political favors’ in new ad. LOL.
Americans for Prosperity has a lot of very concrete ideas about what happened with the Solyndra loan and the company's collapse. None of those ideas are backed by evidence, since the investigation isn't complete, but let's pass lightly over that. The real hilarity here comes from the fact that Americans for Prosperity — a group backed […]
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Koch-funded scientists confirm global warming
Remember when physicist Richard Muller was called to testify in the House by denialist Republicans who thought he'd debunk global warming, and he ended up supporting it instead? That was fun! And it just happened again on a grander scale. Muller's group at Berkeley, which was funded in part by the Charles G. Koch foundation, has reexamined (with a skeptical eye, of course) a metric crapload of climate information -- including data from the University of East Anglia, i.e. Climategate Central. Their conclusion? "Global warming is real." Direct quote.