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On David Koch’s Passing and the Koch Network’s Ongoing War on Clean Energy

Billionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement, fighting against regulations that protect worker and public health, and—critical to our work here—helping fund and coordinate a decades-long attack on clean energy and low carbon energy solutions. We will leave the mourning to his family and friends, and the condemning to those who were immediately impacted by his efforts—a massive group, considering the far-reaching impacts of climate change, which are already being felt across all continents and latitudes. On KochvsClean, our focus is on the Koch network’s ongoing efforts to stall the spread of clean energy and the decarbonization of the global economy. And those efforts will be wholly unchanged by David Koch’s passing. Continue reading “On David Koch’s Passing and the Koch Network’s Ongoing War on Clean Energy”

Documents Show Koch Network’s ‘Structure of Social Change’ in Action

Back in 1996, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation laid out a blueprint for the Koch network’s goals of social transformation — a three-tiered integrated strategy to roll back government regulations, promote free market principles, and, in doing so, to protect the industries that turned the Koch brothers into billionaires. More than two decades later, that blueprint is still being followed in a broad-scale effort to serve the Kochs’ free-market libertarian ideology, to prop up the oil and gas industries that pad their fortunes, and to forestall any political action on climate change that they believe would threaten their bottom line. Continue reading “Documents Show Koch Network’s ‘Structure of Social Change’ in Action”

Bipartisan Group of Governors Pushes Back on Big Oil, Tells Trump Admin to Halt Clean Car Rollbacks

As the Trump administration scrambles to formalize its rollback of clean car standards, 24 governors are telling the President to pump the brakes on the proposed rule. The governors have signed a letter, as reported this morning in The New York Times, Associated Press, and Bloomberg, requesting that the administration reconsider the rollback of fuel efficiency and emissions standards, and to honor California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to write its own standards, which other states are allowed under the law to sign onto. Continue reading “Bipartisan Group of Governors Pushes Back on Big Oil, Tells Trump Admin to Halt Clean Car Rollbacks”