David Koch on Energy & Oil

Funded $88M to groups that deny existence of climate change

The Koch brothers and their organizations poured more than $88 million into groups that deny the existence of climate change--that is, $88 million that anyone could count. Since 2006, there's been a huge surge in secret donations through opaque nonprofit organizations. One study turned up $558 million in secret donations made between 2003 and 2010 to groups denying climate change. In a perverse way, that makes perfect sense: when someone has dirty hands, why would they hold them up for all the world to see?