Way to go, Phyllis!! Thanks for taking the time to present the facts.
From: Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 7:05 AM
Subject: Rebutal to Koch Brother agenda, Today's DM Register
Kochs' lobbying pushes their agenda
Regarding “Koch Companies Mean Jobs, Money for Iowa” (Aug. 21 letter):
Billionaires Charles and David Koch are funding the tea party to help defeat environmental regulations that cut into their billion dollar profits from oil, gas, pipeline, logging and formaldehyde industries. They have successfully lobbied to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from classifying one of Koch’s products, formaldehyde, a carcinogen — known to cause cancer in humans.
Koch industries own oil refineries, 4,000 miles of pipeline and was named one of the top 10 air polluters in America in a 2010 University of Massachusetts at Amherst report. A February 2011 Ceres report shows Iowa would gain 19,899 new jobs under changes to EPA’s air pollution rules.
Koch industries have donated millions of dollars to nonprofit groups that fight environmental regulations, and they fund advertising that spreads the seeds of doubt about climate science. The Koch agenda calls for an end to federal regulations when recent abuses in the oil, gas, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries have been corrupt, criminal and atrocious.
Jerry Lunn and Scott Lindberg’s letter support Koch industries because of bias from personal gain as Koch employees. They cite the Koch website as proof Koch industries are above reproach. That’s like going to the tobacco or alcohol websites to discover if tobacco or alcohol could be harmful to health.
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