“The Olin Corporation’s pollution was so extensive and intractable that the company faced the prospect of tens if not hundreds of millions… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency’s database revealed Koch Industries to be the number one producer of toxic waste in the country.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“At the end of 2011, only twenty of the sixty-five Republican members of Congress who responded to a survey were willing to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As Obama took office, America derived over 85 percent of its total energy from oil, gas, and coal. The business was enormous,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Kochs’, declared, “The blue dress moment may have arrived.” But instead of using Monica Lewinsky’s telltale garment to impeach Bill Clinton,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In response to the rising concerns in Saltville, in 1970 Virginia passed strict new standards that the company said it couldn’t meet.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“This single Koch refinery is now responsible for an estimated 25 percent of the 1.2 million barrels of oil the U.S. imports… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The numbers regarding Koch Industries’ pollution were incontrovertible. In 2012, according to the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory database, which documents the toxic… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In 1999, the District of Columbia Circuit Court embraced Dudley’s pro-smog argument. Evaluating the EPA rule, the court found that the EPA… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Yet the story line blaming environmental activists for its problems proved irresistible. Life magazine produced an elegiac photo essay called “End of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Congressman Upton insisted that he hadn’t changed his position on environmental issues. But Jeremy Symons, then a senior vice president of the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“In 1997, for instance, the EPA moved to reduce surface ozone, a form of air pollution caused, in part, by emissions from… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The Kochs never did play by the rules. They had their own playing field. They just didn’t abide by anything. Not the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The whole ideological assembly line that Richard Fink and Charles Koch had envisioned decades earlier, including the entire conservative media sphere, was… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“by 2008 the arithmetic of climate change presented an almost unimaginable challenge. If the world were to stay within the range of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“If the world were to stay within the range of carbon emissions that scientists deemed reasonable in order for atmospheric temperatures to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As early as 1913, the oil industry used its clout to win a special tax loophole, the “oil depletion allowance.” On the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“By choosing a tested, moderate, bipartisan approach, the Obama administration and many environmentalists assumed a deal would be winnable. “What we didn’t… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As even the Pentagon, a cautious bastion of technological nonpartisanship, concluded, “the danger from climate change is real, urgent, and severe.” An… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“the fossil fuel industry is an oligarchy.” Some might dispute that American oil, gas, and coal magnates met the dictionary definition of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“David Brock, a conservative apostate who became a liberal activist, described the Heritage Foundation, where he was a young fellow, as almost completely under… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“The early think tank was not a spy operation, but it was funded by wealthy men who had no objections to using pretexts and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“Americans for Prosperity annoyed some of the Tea Partiers,” recalls the libertarian blogger Ralph Benko. “These people drove up, opened the door, put T-shirts… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“When Barack Obama took office, the fossil fuel industry was not only eager to preserve its perks but also more militant in its opposition… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs'… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“The candidates promised to cut taxes for those in the highest brackets, preserve Wall Street loopholes, tolerate the off-shoring of manufacturing jobs and profits,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving the country… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
What I write about is how much influence it's had in things like state legislatures and governorships and congressional races. The other thing that's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“Two months into their tenure, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee also led a crusade against alternative, renewable energy programs. They successfully… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, explains that private… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S. government’s regulatory… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,… — Jane Mayer Copy Share
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