Tag: Koch Industries
It’s time for Charles Koch to testify about his climate disinformation...
For more than two decades, Koch-controlled foundations spent more than $160 million to stymie government action on climate change.
Decades of lobbying weakened Americans’ gas mileage and turbocharged pain at...
The oil and automotive industries, as well as the Koch network, undercut efforts to make today’s fleet of vehicles more efficient and less reliant on fossil fuels.
Majority of directors of world’s top insurance companies tied to polluting...
Analysis found links to Exxon, Koch Industries, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, raising concerns about a potential “revolving door,” one campaigner said, between the insurance and fossil fuel industries.
Supreme Court: A superstore for the super-rich?
This is America, after all, where rich white men can buy whatever they want, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
Koch academic influence returns to Massachusetts with new Tufts University think...
A network of free-market think tanks around the country tied to Koch funding that tend to oppose climate action and clean energy.
Wealthy donors and fossil fuel interests pump millions into Super PACs...
Koch Industries leads corporate contributions.
Wall Street Journal and Senator Barrasso still peddling Koch’s electric car...
Senator John Barrasso and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board are once again attacking the federal electric vehicle tax credit, and are once...
“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...
Rising profits, Rising injuries: the safety crisis at Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific
In March of 2014, Jim Hannan joined a group of executives at Georgia-Pacific to discuss a burgeoning crisis.
Hannan...
Charles Koch ramps up higher ed funding to fuel ‘talent pipeline’
"Charles Koch is doubling down on the multi-million dollar money dumps that buy him real control over professors."
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.