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To hit back at Kochs, Democrats revive tactic that hurt Romney
2014-04-06 08:29:12| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
After months of wincing in the face of negative ads funded by the industrialists David and Charles Koch, Democrats believe they have finally found a way to fight back: attacking the brothers' sprawling business conglomerate as callous and indifferent to the lives of ordinary people while pursuing profit and power.
To hit back at Kochs, Democrats revive tactic that hurt Romney
2014-04-06 06:36:46| Energy - Topix.net
After months of wincing in the face of negative ads funded by the industrialists David and Charles Koch, Democrats believe they have finally found a way to fight back: attacking the brothers' sprawling business conglomerate as callous and indifferent to the lives of ordinary people while pursuing profit and power.
Kochs and Republicans launch bid to snuff out wind-energy tax incentives
2013-11-07 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A key tax incentive credited with boosting wind-energy capacity in the U.S. is due to expire in eight weeks, and fossil fuel lobbyists are working hard to blow it to oblivion. The Koch-backed conservative group Americans for Prosperity is launching an advertising campaign calling on lawmakers to allow the production tax credit (PTC) to expire on Dec. 31. The wind industry says the tax credit was critical in helping it to attract as much as $25 billion in private investment last year, all the...
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U.S. Chamber, Kochs Join Social Cost of Carbon Lobbying Battle
2013-10-22 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The nations most powerful business group has joined the growing ranks of parties formally lobbying against the Obama administration's use of the social cost of carbon, a metric used to help tally the benefits of federal regulations that cut emissions. The U.S. Chamber of Commerces newly filed third-quarter lobbying report says the group has lobbied on legislation that would prevent use of the metric absent a formal rulemaking to create the estimate. More broadly the filing states that the...
New Study: Koch's Could Make $100 Billion on Keystone XL Pipeline Deal
2013-10-21 08:31:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is given the go-ahead by U.S. President Obama.