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Reporter at Large: Jane Mayer
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Koch brothers/oil billionaires creating Tea Party Movement; Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States - a “kingpin of climate science denial.” From 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many progressive policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus....
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