Oil Slick Spin Cycle
A f c o u ^ ° ) V y j U f* - i p ffljBg o the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers, Koch Indus- tries is among 700 companies and trade groups that make up the AIR QUALITY STANDARDS COALITION, which opposes the EPA's regulations. Run by NAM, the coalition includes Ford, General Motors, and Exxon, and reportedly boasts a $2 million war chest. O IL S L I C K How to choke off clean air with independent expenditures. AQSC’s spokesman C. BOYDEN GRAY David H. Koch, 56, Wichita, Kan. Party: R and Libertarian. (#87) was Bush's W hite House counsel, When the Environmental Protection Agency announced is chair of Citizens for a Sound last November it would update Clean Air Act standards Economy, and is a lawyer at the to ban dust particle emissions that reportedly cause r law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Picker 40,000 p Tiatur - deaths annually big industries sharpened ing, where his clients include their knives. (Final EPA regulations are due by July.) Oil Geneva Steel. companies, automakers, and the nation’s largest manufac turers claim it will cost them billions to comply. Among them is David Koch, chairman of Koch Industries, whose oil subsidiary is being sued by the government for Clean Water Act violations, for a reported $55 million. Although Koch gave $339,000 to federal campaigns in 1995-96, it’s only one way he sought influence. He also gives through a .7:; - tangled v. eb of think tanks, PR agencies, and trade associa I health study linking a tions, all of which want Congress to gut the Clean Air Act.
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