1974 Charles Koch Speech: “Anti-Capitalism and Big Business” and How the Powell Memo Did Not Go Far Enough
In this 1974 speech, Charles Koch claimed that “business has consciously assisted the government in destroying the free market.” This speech was given during the second term of Republican President Richard M. Nixon, a few months before he resigned in…
2014 Americans for Prosperity Foundation on “The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations”
This document is briefing paper from Kochs’ Americans for Prosperity Foundation on “The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations,” which criticizes government initiatives that enhance the regulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) to address the climate changes that are underway, such as: The…
2017 Koch Seminar Network Strategy Memo: “Advancing Comprehensive Tax Reform”
This strategy memo from Charles Koch’s network to its funders was first reported by Lee Fang and Nick Surgey at The Intercept. This memo preceded Koch’s successful effort to get Trump to sign into law massive tax cuts that substantially…
2016 Association of Private Enterprise Education Meeting with Koch Groups
This set of documents is from a meeting of “private enterprise” groups with many ties to Charles Koch and his agenda. The issues raised by this event were originally covered in a report by UnKoch My Campus titled, “Exposing the…
2000 Press Release, Koch Industries Paid Largest Ever Civil Fine on an Oil Company: $30 Million for More than 300 Oil and Chemical Spills in Six States
In this press release, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it was imposing the “largest civil fine ever imposed on an oil company under any federal law,” on Koch Industries in 2000. The fine was $30 million. The fine…
2001 Department of Justice: “Koch Pleads Guilty to Covering Up Environmental Violations at Texas Oil Refinery” and Pays $10 Million Fine
In a press release in 2001, the U.S. Department of Justice describes how the George W. Bush Administration settled “a 97-count indictment against Koch Industries Inc., Koch Petroleum Group, L.P., and four corporate employees” brought by the Clinton Administration alleging…
2000 Environmental Protection Agency: “Koch Petroleum Group Sentenced For Minnesota Pollution” and Pays $6 Million Fine
In this press release, the Environmental Protection Agency announces that Koch Industries’ wholly owned subsidiary, the Koch Petroleum Group, was compelled by a federal judge to pay a $6 million dollar fine, “the largest federal environmental fine ever paid in…
1980 Clark-Koch Oil and Gas Journal Ad Promising to “Abolish the Department of Energy”
This document is a May 10, 1980, letter from Charles Koch’s confidant Ed Crane to “Clark V.I.P’s” about media coverage of the Ed Clark-David Koch presidential campaign. Enclosed in the letter is an ad placed in the Oil and Gas…
1980 Libertarian Party Response to Criticism of Environmental Impact of Proposed “Complete Private Ownership of All Resources”
This February 27, 1980, document was used by the Libertarian Party during the 1980 campaign to elect Ed Clark as President and David Koch as Vice President. The briefing contains a “Summary of Current Events” on issues ranging from the…
2017 Koch Seminar Network: Memo on Federal Policy Agenda for 2017-2018
This memo from Charles Koch’s network to its funders details changes in the law sought by what was then called the “Seminar Network.” That group previously operated under the name “Freedom Partners” and it is now operating under the name…
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