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Line 69: ===Political contributions=== In 2008, the three main Koch family foundations contributed to 34 political and policy organizations, three of which they founded, and several of which they directed.<ref name="mayer2010"/> As of 2011, Koch Industries' political action committee had donated more than $2.6 million to candidates.<ref name=MJ/> The Koch brothers support primarily Republican candidates and in 2010 they supported [[California Proposition 23 (2010)|California Proposition 23]], which would have suspended the state's ''[[Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.followthemoney.org/press/ReportView.phtml?r=434&ext=4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213204146/http://www.followthemoney.org/press/ReportView.phtml?r=434&ext=4|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-12-13|title=Names in the News: David and Charles Koch |website=followthemoney.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=A Foil for the Koch Brothers?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2011-03-15|url=http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/a-foil-for-the-koch-brothers|access-date=2012-10-05|first=Todd|last=Woody}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= ====Governor Scott Walker contributions==== Line 213: agency=Gallop |access-date=26 December 2022}}</ref> According to Kert Davies, the founder and director of Climate Investigations Center, "you’d have a carbon tax, or something better, today, if not for the Kochs. They stopped anything from happening back when there was still time."<ref name="Robinson-2019">{{cite news |last1=Robinson |first1=Nathan |title=The Koch brothers tried to build a plutocracy in the name of freedom |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/28/the-koch-brothers-tried-to-build-a-plutocracy-in-the-name-of-freedom |access-date=24 December 2022 |agency=The Guardian |date=28 Aug 2019}}</ref> In January 2011, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine included the Koch brothers on its list of the top twelve people blocking progress on [[global warming]].<ref name=rollingstone>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/lists/whos-to-blame-12-politicians-and-execs-blocking-progress-on-global-warming-20110119/tim-phillips-president-americans-for-prosperity-19691231 |title=7 Tim Phillips President, Americans for Prosperity |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=February 3, 2011 |access-date=September 8, 2014}}</ref> In 2011, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' reporter [[Margot Roosevelt]] called the Koch Brothers "the nation's most prominent funders of efforts to prevent curbs on [[fossil-fuel]] burning".<ref>Margot Roosevelt.[ In "2011 and 2012, Koch Industries Public Sector LLC, (the lobbying arm of Koch Industries)", pushed for the [[Energy Tax Prevention Act]], which would have prevented the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases, according to the Investigative Reporting Workshop at [[American University]]<ref name=Rayfield /><ref name=Holmberg>{{cite web | url=http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_climate_pledge_strategy/ | title=Koch: Climate pledge strategy continues to grow | publisher=Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication | date=July 1, 2013 | access-date=December 14, 2013 | author=Holmberg, Eric | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402101439/http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_climate_pledge_strategy/ | archive-date=April 2, 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Line 229: Soon has stated that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research".<ref name=Vidal>{{cite news|first=John|last=Vidal|title=Climate sceptic Willie Soon received $1m from oil companies, papers show|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2011-06-27|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/28/climate-change-sceptic-willie-soon|location=London}}</ref> At the state level, Koch Industries (unsuccessfully) supported efforts in 2010 to roll back [[California Proposition 23 (2010)|emission regulations in California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6 |title=The Kochs Are Plotting A Multimillion-Dollar Assault On Electric Vehicles |quote=Koch was also a big donor to the ballot campaign|website=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=February 18, 2016|access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Rutten, Tim|url= The Koch brothers' Lambe Foundation has donated to the American Energy Alliance, an offshoot of the Institute for Energy Research that promotes oil and gas energy exploration and production and looser government regulations to encourage them.<ref>{{cite news |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/secretmoney/2008/09/udall_radio_ad.html|title=New Group Tied To Oil Industry Runs Ads Promoting Drilling, Attacking Democrat|date=September 22, 2008|access-date=September 9, 2011|first=Will|last=Evans}}</ref> | |||