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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2015, 10:37 AM Mar 2015

Koch brothers refuse to cooperate with climate research funding probe

The multinational corporation run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch has said it will not cooperate with a Senate investigation into whether the corporation has paid for research skeptical of climate change.

Koch Industries Inc., which operates refining, chemical and pipeline companies, was among 100 fossil fuel businesses and organizations that were sent letters by three Democratic senators seeking information on whether they had backed research into global warming.

Koch general counsel Mark V. Holden replied in a March 5 letter to Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

Holden said that disclosing the information would impinge on the Koch corporation’s First Amendment right to participate in public policy debates.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/11/koch-brothers-fight-climate-funding-probe.html

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Koch brothers refuse to cooperate with climate research funding probe (Original Post) bemildred Mar 2015 OP
........ daleanime Mar 2015 #1
What makes them above the law? nt babylonsister Mar 2015 #2
The Supreme Court Kablooie Mar 2015 #3
Cotton the Koch Bros. meow2u3 Mar 2015 #4

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
3. The Supreme Court
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 07:45 PM
Mar 2015

At least if this is contested it might move up to SCOTUS where they can be given complete immunity from the law.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
4. Cotton the Koch Bros.
Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:30 PM
Mar 2015

That is, lock them up without a trial or investigation, along with their entire families.

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