Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People
Behind the Bastards
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The Koch Brothers Are the Scotty Pippin of Poison.
Koch Industries had a big refinery in Corpus Christi that was hemorrhaging benzene into the air. A 1995 regulation required them to reduce emissions. So they just lied about how bad the emissions were when they filed their reports with the Texas National Resource Conservation Commission, which is fun. And I said they were putting out less poison than they were and assumed it'd be fine.
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