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How Charles Koch Is Buying Credibility With Academic Investments

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins In 1996, Richard Fink, an executive at Koch Industries and a top advisor to Charles Koch , outlined a three-tiered strategy for getting the petrochemical industrialist's free-market ideas out into the world: through academia, think tanks, and activists’ organizations.

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Harbinger unveils a new dedicated platform for medium-duty commercial EVs

Charged

Medium-duty vehicles serve as the backbone of the commercial transportation industry, but fleet customers today face acute shortages of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, and any meaningful supply of production-ready EV offerings is still years out,” said CEO John Harris. The pack is engineered for “a supplier-agnostic sourcing strategy.”.

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Documents Show Koch Network's 'Structure of Social Change' in Action

DeSmogBlog

More than two decades later, that blueprint is still being followed in a broad-scale effort to serve the Kochs’ free-market libertarian ideology, to prop up the oil and gas industries that pad their fortunes, and to forestall any political action on climate change that they believe would threaten their bottom line.

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The Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation

DeSmogBlog

For a long time, the story went that the tobacco industry cooked up disinformation and then spread it to the fossil fuel guys, the chemical industry, pharma, you name it. Tags: disinformation COVID-19 pr tobacco American Petroleum Institute Edelman Public Relations astroturfing

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A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions

DeSmogBlog

This approach of saying one thing about addressing climate change while doing the opposite has been standard practice for the oil and gas industry for decades. Another popular strategy for the industry is to push certain climate “solutions” — often with slick advertising campaigns — that sound good in theory but are not viable in practice.

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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry

GreenBiz

Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry. The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. The strategy expanding preservation of the Amazon rainforest to 7.4 According to the Ulta press release, the cosmetic industry produces 120 billion packaging units every year across the globe.

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How the Koch Network's ‘Social Change' Strategy Is Built to Kill the Electric Car

DeSmogBlog

If it feels like the oil industry’s attacks on the burgeoning electric car market are well coordinated, that’s because they are. The industry is following a blueprint laid out decades ago, and refined ever since, by Koch network insiders.