One thing that constantly bothers me is when people claim how much Koch Industries pollutes. People forget Koch Industries is one of the largest energy companies in the world. One study that people on the left always love pointing to is a University of Massachusetts Index called Greenhouse Polluters 100 Index. What is fascinating is that U.S. government is #4 on the list and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is #5. If you add the percentage from both the U.S. government and Berkshire Hathaway is it over 2.2% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Koch Industries comes in at #27 and only has 0.36%. Now if people were complaining on principle wouldn't liberals be just as made about the pollution generated by the U.S. government and Berkshire Hathway as they are about Koch Industries? Berkshire Hathaway is mainly in the insurance business (they also own Dairy Queen and Star Furniture) and still generate more pollution than the "oil conglomerate" Koch Industries.
Actually Koch Industries has been reducing their pollution over time. This is from the May 2013 Koch Industries Discovery magazine.
"Since 1997, Flint Hills Resources’ refineries have reduced average per-barrel criteria air emissions by 76 percent. In 2004, FHR earned a Clean Air Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for reduced flaring and emissions. In 2000, FHR refineries averaged almost two hours of flaring per day. In 2012, flaring at Pine Bend Refinery totaled just six-and-a-half hours for the entire year. As for other Koch companies, at Georgia-Pacific, sulfur dioxide emissions have been reduced by almost half since 2000. Total suspended solids in wastewater have been cut by 38 percent since 2005."
Even if you don't believe this is true Koch Industries since January 2009 has won close to 750 awards for safety and environmental excellence. What is even more amazing is that Koch Industries Pipeline earlier this year announced they went 8 million working hours (11 years) incident free.
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