Could it be? Has Koch Industries, the giant industrial conglomerate that has long been the target of environmental groups for its broad-based support of climate change skepticism, suddenly changed its tune?
No, although a mysterious press release issued Friday morning might have caused some climate campaigners’ hearts to flutter momentarily.
In the announcement, the company, which has is based in Wichita and has interests in everything from oil refining to carpeting to Dixie paper cups, appears to commit itself to cutting off its financing of groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Fraser Institute, the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, among others.
The reason: the positions of those groups on climate change “could jeopardize America’s continued global competitiveness in the energy and chemical sectors and Koch Industries’ ability to provide high-quality products and services to the American people,” the release says.
Koch Industries on Climate Science
Could you imagine all those who Koch supported this fall if this was true? Their sugar-daddy gone to the good side.
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