Last year, Greenpeace, the environmental group, accused the brothers Charles and David Koch of a stealth campaign to attack climate science, setting off extensive media scrutiny of the Kochs and their company, Koch Industries. (A Koch subsidiary is a major oil refiner.) Now Greenpeace is out with an update. The new report largely adds detail, from the advocacy group’s perspective, to some previously disclosed activities of the company and various groups financed by its owners and employees. For instance, the report highlights donations from Koch interests to the unsuccessful attempt last year to get voters to roll back California’s ambitious clean-energy policy. Similarly, the report lays out Greenpeace’s take on the battle over the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a compact of states in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast that seeks to limit greenhouse gases. Greenpeace now has a whole section of its Web site devoted to tracking the Koch interests. Koch Industries itself, under heavy media scrutiny since last year’s report, has started a blog to challenge its critics and publicize demands the company makes for corrections to articles, as well as to lay out the Koch brothers’ positions on various issues...more
The Greenpeace report is here.
The Koch blog is here.
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