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How the Koch Brothers Mess With the Texas Environment (Revised)

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Mary Bell Lockhart
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When you hear their spokespersons call for the elimination of the "onerous" EPA or "burdensome" financial regulations ask yourself if those agencies and regulations are as much an onerous burden on you as is the haze in Big Bend National Park or the price of gas inflated by unrestrained market speculation.

 

What's good for Koch Industries is not good for Texas or for the nation. And they are not alone at the trough of public policy that is really corporate welfare. But, unless we rethink old sayings, get the facts, stand up, speak out, and demand government policies that serve the interests of the people, not the corporations, one of these days we may find the formerly great state of Texas listed among the "subsidiaries" of corporations like Koch Industries.

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