Nice letter Phyllis!

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> **
>  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.
>
> — Phyllis Mains, Van Wert
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