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company Koch Industries

position CEO and Chairman

industry brothers

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Charles G. Koch, born in 1935, is the CEO and Chairman of Koch Industries. Koch is also on the Board...

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Charles Koch

company Koch Industries

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status "If somebody's evil, the smarter they are, the more damage they're going to do."

More corporate funders drop the anti-science Heartland Institute, Including Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Verizon, and CUNA

24 May 2012

UPDATE: Statement from Forecast the Facts added below (click here to see)

The Heartland Institute’s 7th Climate denial-palooza, fewer attendees, more fringe conspiracy theories

23 May 2012

Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations

22 May 2012

Written by Brendan DeMelle, crossposted from DeSmogBlog.

Heartland Institute’s Achy Breaky Climate Denial Machine

21 May 2012

Written by Greenpeace Research Director Kert Davies, crossposted from Greenpeace Blogs.

Koch "Facts" flummoxed over undeniable tar sands business, Keystone XL interest

15 May 2012

For those who missed the deep investigative piece published by InsideClimate News last week documenting a half-century of Koch Industries involvement in the destructive tar sands of Alberta, Canada, it has finally closed the coffin on a vicious round of lies straight from Koch Industries.

What's on ALEC's polluter agenda tomorrow?

10 May 2012

Tomorrow, the American Legislative Exchange Council--known as ALEC--will host their 2012 Spring Task Force summit in Charlotte, NC. At tomorrow's meeting, the corporate front group will round up its various committees and prepare to peddle new state-level legislation to attack clean energy laws, protect polluting industries, privatize education, and suppress voters, among other big business schemes.

Heartland Institute Compares Climate Advocates to Mass Murderers

5 May 2012

Why are the Koch brothers cannibalizing the Cato Institute?

20 March 2012

A cursory look at the very public clash between the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Koch brothers, infamous oil billionaires and funders of right wing causes - leaves many people confused. The Cato Institute, originally called the Charles G Koch Institute when it was founded by Charles G Koch in the 70s – is in danger of a hostile takeover…by Charles G Koch? Why would Charles Koch try to take over his own think tank?