Thursday, March 6, 2025

Tag: Koch brothers

How the Koch network’s ‘social change’ strategy is built to kill...

That's how you get policymakers to spurn electric cars.

NYT remembers David Koch more as ‘philanthropist’ than polluter

An obituary should memorialize a person, but some people’s legacies are darker than dinosaur exhibits.

“Kochland”: How David Koch helped build an empire to shape U.S....

Billionaire conservative donor David Koch died Friday at the age of 79 from prostate cancer. David Koch — who was worth some...

On David Koch’s passing and the Koch network’s ongoing war on...

Billionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement,...

Documents shine new light on Koch brothers’ early efforts to abolish...

A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the...

Koch, Bradley money fuels Trump’s right-wing echo chamber

In the face of widespread outrage, Trump's friends from the Summit have gone out of their way to justify his actions.

New Koch-funded fossil exhibit at the Smithsonian is curiously quiet on...

After five years and $39 million, the Smithsonian's completely renovated Hall of Fossils is open again — complete with T. rex and...

How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by...

After years of working as a sheriff’s deputy and a car dealership manager, John Ingrum used his savings to buy a farm...

Koch brothers float possibility of backing congressional Democrats in 2020 primaries

Over the last two decades, the Koch network’s major groups – AFP and Freedom Partners – have cumulatively spent about $120 million in independent expenditures supporting Republican candidates or opposing Democratic candidates.

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Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?

Just 36 companies drove half the world’s climate-altering emissions in 2023: New report

Released today by the Carbon Majors project, the list is dominated by coal, cement, and oil producers.

Trump and Musk’s plan to slash 83,000 VA jobs sparks outrage

A leaked internal memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has revealed that the Trump administration, in coordination with Elon Musk’s...

Why is Trump sabotaging our national security?

Trump ordered the cyber command at DOD, to "stand down" regarding any monitoring of Russian actions. This is how this could damage our national security.

Supreme Court weakens clean water protections, allowing more raw sewage discharge into US waterways

The ruling blocks the EPA from enforcing broad water quality limits through “end result” permits, which require cities and businesses to ensure discharged water meets pollution standards.