"Koch Brothers' Toxic Legacy Detailed In New Report"

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Koch Brothers' Toxic Legacy Detailed In New Report

by Christina Wilkie at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/15/koch-brothers-koch-industries_n_5682362.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- A report released Friday by a top Democratic political research group details what it calls a "legacy" of layoffs and environmental damage at subsidiaries of Koch Industries, the holding company owned by the conservative billionaire Koch brothers.

The 51-page report was produced by the group American Bridge 21st Century. Titled "Legacy of Loss: Koch Industries' Layoffs and Environmental Harm in Battleground States," it looks at 12 states where Democrats are facing tough races in the fall.

Most of the facts laid out in the report have been previously reported by local news outlets, but taken together they serve to reinforce a major Democratic narrative for 2014: that the GOP is a party funded by billionaires whose business practices cost workers their jobs and pollute the air and water.
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Alaska: Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources is shutting down refinery operations near the North Pole, eliminating at least 81 jobs. One of the reasons cited by the company is the high cost of cleaning up environmental contamination by toxic chemicals. The state of Alaska has sued Flint Hill Resources over the contamination.




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