Koch Industries

Koch Industries is a privately held corporation operating a variety of industrial sectors, including oil and gas exploration, pipelines and refining, chemical and fertilizer production. The company also manufactures pollution control equipment used in refineries, methane gas power plants, and chemical plants. Koch Industries and its CEO, Charles Koch, fund a network of politicians, front groups, and trade associations that deny global warming and promote misinformation about climate science. 

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Fossil fuel money lurks behind anti-offshore wind power political ads in New Jersey 

A Republican group that paid for anti-offshore wind power ads targeting Democrats ahead of New Jersey’s November 7 state legislative elections raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fossil fuel industry earlier this year.  The Washington, D.C.-based Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) announced in July that it had launched “two five-figure ad buys...

Harry Brown: North Carolina’s anti-wind lawmaker is backed by Koch money

Harry Brown, the state senator who wants to ban new wind farms in eastern North Carolina, has received thousands of dollars in campaign money from Koch Industries and other fossil fuel interests. Brown, who serves as the Republican Majority Leader in the North Carolina Senate, received a $4,000 contribution for his reelection campaign from the...

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