March 30, 2010- Koch Industries has “become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition,” spending over $48.5 million since 1997 to fund the climate denial machine, according to an extensive report today by Greenpeace.
December 3, 2010- Outside groups spent nearly $18 million on Michigan’s most competitive congressional races this year – nearly $6 million more than that spent by the candidates themselves.
The Lansing-based Michigan Campaign Finance Network issued its findings today after looking at Federal Election Commission records as well as data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. It also consulted its own records on spending by some shadow advocacy organizations, including the conservative Americans for Prosperity, which has been linked to industrialist David Koch.