Since 1999, KochPAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates and committeesthan any other oil-and-gas sector PAC. In that period, Koch Industries spent over $22 million on politicians at the federal level.

Koch Industries has spent $79 million on federal lobbying since 1998, when disclosure became mandatory. Koch's lobbying expenses are outspent only by a few oil and gas industry "supermajor" competitors that have far greater annual revenue than Koch Industries: ExxonMobil ($192 million), Royal Dutch Shell ($188 million), BP ($171 million) Chevron ($105 million), and ConocoPhillips ($91 million).

Koch Industries, Inc. is the second-largest privately-held company in the United States, a conglomerate of more than twenty companies with $115 billion in annual sales. Koch operates in nearly 60 countries, and 100,000 employees globally, "about 60,000" of which are employed in the United States.

A memo obtained by ThinkProgress.org in October, 2010 revealed an extensive guest list of business and political elites who attended Koch Brother’s secretive biannual strategy meeting in Aspen, Colorado.

Koch Industries funds a California ballot initiative intended to block state commitments to reduce global warming pollution and promote the growth of the state’s clean energy economy.

Koch front groups campaigned against the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market-based cap-and-trade program established in 2007 by ten U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Koch Family Foundations have spent $127,006,756 directly financing 92 groups that have attacked climate change science and policy solutions, from 1997-2017.