Has the EPA called Koch brothers businesses a 'model' company for a clean environment? For several weeks now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has taken to the chamber floor to malign David and Charles Koch, the billionaire brothers who contribute heavily to libertarian causes and bankroll ads critical of Democrats.
On April 2, 2014, Charles Koch fired back in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, arguing that Reid’s comments were disrespectful and a bad sign for democracy. And he defended Koch Industries and their subsidiaries against attacks, including claims that they oppose environmental protections. "Koch employees have earned well over 700 awards for environmental, health and safety excellence since 2009, many of them from the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration," Koch wrote.
"EPA officials have commended us for our ‘commitment to a cleaner environment’ and called us ‘a model for other companies. Subsidiaries of Koch Industries include manufacturers like paper maker Georgia Pacific and INVISTA, a textile fiber producer. Koch Brothers, ALEC, Grover Norquist Target Solar Energy. Solar panel.
(Photo via Shutterstock)Washington - The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a greedy villain who hogged sweets for himself and made children cry. But the bad guy, in this case, wasn't a fat-cat lobbyist or someone's political opponent. He was a solar-energy consumer. Solar, once almost universally regarded as a virtuous, if perhaps over-hyped, energy alternative, has now grown big enough to have enemies.
The Koch brothers, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and some of the nation's largest power companies have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor green energy. Alarmed environmentalists and their allies in the solar industry have fought back, battling the other side to a draw so far. At the nub of the dispute are two policies found in dozens of states. Net metering forms the linchpin of the solar-energy business model.
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Quinn, Koch Brothers, U.S. Supreme Court, worker rights by Félix Pérez/image courtesy of Matt Schilder The Koch Brothers, ALEC and their secretive network of interconnected boardrooms and front groups have plotted for years to strip teachers, education support professionals, health care employees and other public sector workers of their rights in the workplace. Don’t miss out on the kind of education, legislative and political news you can only get with EdVotes. The case in dispute is Harris v. The Koch’s’ main political organization, Americans for Prosperity, has waged a war against increasing the minimum wage. The central issue driving Harris v. Labor scholars and analysts say the legal challenges to fair share are aimed at amassing political power. John Logan, director of San Francisco State University’s labor studies program, in response to a fair share lawsuit in California (Friedrichs v. Harris v. Why we wrote about the Koch Industries and its leases in Canadaa s oil sands.
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