{"id":4223,"date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/4223\/koch-industries-secretly-fund\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:37:20","slug":"koch-industries-secretly-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/koch-industries-secretly-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"p4descriptive_paragraph\">Most Americans have never heard of Koch Industries, one of the largest private corporations in the country, because it has no Koch-branded consumer products, sells no shares on the stock market and has few of the disclosure requirements of a public company. Although Koch intentionally stays out of the public eye, it is now playing a quiet but dominant role in a high-profile national policy debate on global warming.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/12\/9a0582db-koch-industries-secretly-fund.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/fbd9d23c-koch-banner-430px.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Download report: <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/12\/9a0582db-koch-industries-secretly-fund.pdf?9e7084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine<\/a>&nbsp;(2010)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Executive summary:<\/strong> Koch Industries has become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition. This private, out-of-sight corporation is now a partner to ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and other donors that support organizations and front-groups opposing progressive clean energy and climate policy. In fact, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding these groups in recent years. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of the \u2018climate denial machine\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>This report focuses on activities by Koch Industries and its affiliates, as well as the family\u2014and company\u2014controlled foundations which fund organizations that spread inaccurate and misleading information about climate science and clean energy policies. Included is research on the company and the Koch brothers, two of the top ten richest people in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Num. pages:<\/strong> 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download report: Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine\u00a0(2010) Executive summary: Koch Industries has become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition. 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