Koch Industries: The 100-Million ton Carbon Gorilla

[JohnWxy]

Koch Industries, one of the backers of Wisconsin Gov Walker is one of the major contributors of carbon pollution in the United States....

http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/02/koch-industries-carbon-pollution/

Koch Industries, the private company of the billionaire Koch brothers, is one of the primary sources of carbon pollution in the United States. However, the actual emissions profile of the diversified giant, with its oil and gas, chemicals, cattle, forestry, and synthetics holdings, is unknown, because of the lack of mandatory carbon reporting in the United States.

Brad Johnson has the story — and his estimates of the Koch carbon pollution.

Furthermore, Koch is exempt from the risk disclosures that are standard for public corporations. The financial status of Koch Industries is similarly clouded in secret, with only vague statements of annual revenue around $100 billion and the Forbes estimates of the principals’ extraordinary wealth. Charles and David Koch have directed many millions of their shared $43 billion net worth into a vast propaganda machine denying the threat of global warming pollution, corrupting American politics to permit their pollution-based enterprise to continue.

Below, the Wonk Room makes some estimates of the Koch Industries carbon footprint, based on the pollution generated by its activities and from the use of the products it sells:
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[kristopher]

1. K&R

[movonne]

2. and if they get there way it will be a 200 million ton...