"How the Koch brothers screwed over the climate even more than you know"

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How the Koch brothers screwed over the climate even more than you know

by John Upton at grist.org

http://grist.org/news/how-the-koch-brothers-screwed-over-the-climate-even-more-than-you-know/

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A quarter of senators and more than one-third of representatives have signed a little-known pledge — backed by the Kochs — not to spend any money to fight climate change without an equivalent amount of tax cuts.

They are among 411 current office-holders and politicians, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II, Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Oklahoma schools superintendent, the Idaho state treasurer and three justices of the peace in Arkansas who have signed the “No Climate Tax Pledge.” …

While the pledge began with a marginal following, an energized turnout of conservative voters in the 2010 election swept 85 freshman Republicans into the House. Of those 85 Republicans, 76 signed the Koch pledge as candidates. And 57 of those 76 received campaign contributions from Koch Industries’ political action committee.

With the support of these newly elected Republicans, from 2011 to 2013, Congress passed increasingly smaller budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), attempted to strip the agency of varying regulatory powers and discouraged policies to address climate change across multiple federal agencies, according to the Workshop’s analysis.

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1. In cartoons when I was a kid, selling your soul to the devil was portrayed as a contract

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the character would sign. Didn't know it would actually come true.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Surprise

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[meow2u3]

3. The entire Koch clan should be forced to breathe polluted air

drink polluted water, and eat the food they polluted. Then I can say there'll be justice.

[think]

4. Give a hoot. Don't pollute

Don't be a dirty bird....