Koch brothers chip in money to defeat Washington carbon-tax measure
In the final days of the campaign season, two political players with sharply different takes on climate change joined the opposition to a state ballot measure to impose an escalating carbon tax on fossil fuels.
Koch Industries — owned by Charles and David Koch, brothers who have funded groups challenging the science of climate change — this week chipped in $50,000 to the No on 732 campaign, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission.
From the other end of the political spectrum, Van Jones, a former Obama “green jobs” adviser and climate-change activist, also weighed in against the measure. A group he founded, Rebuild the Dream, spent $10,000 to place two Facebook ads in opposition to I-732, according to a Rebuild the Dream representative.
Jones on Thursday participated in a news conference of labor and social-justice groups, including a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, opposed to the measure. He attacked Initiative 732 as a “false solution” that would blow a hole in the state budget and not raise money to invest in green jobs, clean energy and underserved communities.
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