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position Owner, President

industry Coal

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Bill Koch was born May 3, 1940 in Wichita, Kansas. He is the President of Oxbow Corporation and Chairman of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. His brothers...

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Bill Koch

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status "If they back you in a corner...I'm going to come out like a snarling badger."

PR Watch on the Election's Fossil Fuel Advertising: Hurricane Sandy Endorses Obama

5 November 2012

This guest article was written by Mary Bottari and Sara Jerving of the Center for Media and Democracy, crossposted from PR Watch.

Koch’ed up: Petcoke’s political pollution

18 October 2012

Written by David Turnbull, crossposted from Oil Change International

If there is a statistical correlation between dirty oil and dirty politics, we have yet to fully quantify it – but you can add this to the growing pile of anecdotal evidence that the dirtiest political players are responsible for some of the dirtiest energy on the planet.

Rising Tide's Day of Action Against Extraction [VIDEO]

25 May 2011

Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial [REPORT]

9 May 2011

Crossposted from Greenpeace USA

Foreign Interests Hijack Tea Party with Help from a Professional Corporate Shill

5 April 2011

Andrew Langer is a man who knows how to brew a Tea Party, or so he would have you believe. He is the president of the Institute for Liberty, a right-wing think tank which published a guide on the subject.

Gas Industry Conspires with Elected Officials to Stop EPA Regulation of Fracking Toxins

3 March 2011

In another explosive exposition of the natural gas industry, Ian Urbina of the New York Times documents how industry and elected officials kept EPA findings on the dangers of fracking from becoming public. One EPA scientist said "The industry was going to get what it wanted, and we were not supposed to stand in the way.”

Koch Brothers media manipulation: propaganda and hired thugs

4 February 2011

Prominent Tea Party Activist Realizes She is a Prop for Americans for Prosperity

7 January 2011

A recent Washington Post article chronicles the AFP-funded journey of one prominent tea party activist to Cancun for the UN Climate Conference. Once there it didn’t take long for her to realize that Tim Phillips and AFP were using her as a backdrop to give AFP the veneer of honest populist activism. The Post writes: