Koch Brothers Block Ability of Congress to Fight Climate War

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Koch Brothers Block Ability of Congress to Fight Climate War
by Peter G. Cohen | September 29, 2013 - 8:15am

The victims of storms Sandy and Katrina, of droughts, floods and wildfires, will tell you that the death and destruction of Climate Change is a real threat to our national life. So why has the Congress failed to reduce our carbon output or to enact defenses against the events we cannot prevent?

Why is it that when most of the world is reducing the burning of carbon, the United States has only the EPA to limit the burning of fossil fuels? From 2001 to 2012 the National Climatic Data Center has recorded $487 Billion in property damage and 3,952 deaths in the United States. While we lavish more money on the military than it requests, the Congress is doing little or nothing to control or to reduce the impact of climate change?

“Fossil-fuel companies like Exxon and Peabody Energy — which obviously have a business interest in slowing any attempt to reduce carbon emissions — have combined with traditionally conservative corporate groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and conservative foundations like the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, to raise doubts about the basic validity of what is, essentially, a settled scientific truth.” -- Who’s Bankrolling Climate Change Deniers? -- Time.com, October 4, 2011.

Now we learn that the Koch Bros. have gotten 169 Members of Congress to sign a Climate Obstruction Pledge. In other words, they will do nothing to reduce our carbon output or its deadly events.