American Petroleum Institute, 48
American University Investigative Reporting Workshop, 456, 459
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), 5, 546–51, 557, 562, 570, 588
cap-and-trade bill opposed by, 444–45, 453, 586
climate change denial of, 439–40
electoral strategy of, 451–52, 455
Koch funding of, 423, 433–35, 458–59, 480, 538, 540–41
Pence’s alliance with, 562
protests organized by, 427, 429–30, 542
Tea Party and, 434, 437, 451, 581
Trump’s liaison to, 555
Americans for Tax Fairness, 552
ammonia, 53, 161, 165–76, 180–87, 190, 225, 297, 582
in detention ponds, 167–70
dumping of, 173, 175, 184, 186, 187, 190, 582
in fertilizers, 169
flushing hydrants of, 170, 174–76, 180–83
level of emissions of, 166, 171, 173–74, 180
managers allow release into environment of, 582, 583, 589
pipelines for, 193, 195, 308
sour water stripper for control of, 66–67
wastewater treatment plan for, 165–66
Amoco, 65, 231, 237
Antarctica, carbon level of air bubbles in glaciers in, 399, 417
antitrust movement, 22, 146, 473
Antrich, Darrell, 581, 622n
Apple, 502
Arab oil embargo, 92
See also OPEC
Archer Daniel Midlands, 196
Aristotle, 491, 573–74
Arizona, 19, 222, 281–82, 541
Arizona Clean Fuels, 474
Arizona Republic, 17–19, 21–22, 133
Arriaga, Brian, 284
Arrowhead Pipeline, 462
Arteva (Arteva Europe Sárl), 503
Arthur D. Little management consulting firm, 38
Atkinson, Price, 428
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (movie), 266, 270, 286
Austin American-Statesman, 275
Australia, 507
Axios media outlet, 547
BakerHostetler, 555
Bakken Formation, 467, 469
Ballen, Ken, 19–33, 46, 130–31, 137, 581, 590
bankruptcy, 57, 211–13, 300, 305, 570
of major utilities, 285, 287, 289, 292
of Wall Street trading firms, 349, 353
Bannon, Steve, 562
Barbour, Haley, 458
Barclays Capital, 294
Barnard, Don, 377–80, 386, 581
Barnes-Soliz, Sally, 188–89
Barnett, Doyle, 41, 49
Baucus, Max, 443, 444, 450
Baxter, William F., 146
Beacon Hill Institute, 480
Beauvais, Joel, 397, 456, 553
Beck, Glenn, 439–41, 458
Beckett, Melissa, 247, 248, 293, 354, 356–57
megawatt trading by, 278–80, 305, 581
work ethic of, 277
Benton, Thomas Hart, 302
benzene pollution, 148, 189, 316
Bergstrom, Stephen W., 287
Best Buy, 550
Bezos, Jeff, 3, 536
Big River Steel, 555
Bingel, Kelly, 409–11, 581
Blocker, Dana, 521
Bloomberg Markets magazine, 189
blue-sky studies, 125
Boeing aircraft, 243
Boiling Springs Today, 435
Bonhage, John, 186
Border Adjustment Tax (BAT), 542–51
Boren, David, 138
Born, Brooksley, 348–49
Boucher, Rick, 145, 421–42
Bowers, Mike, 288
Boxer, Barbara, 443–45
BP, 356, 474
Brady, Kevin, 542, 547, 549
Brady, Maria, 435–41, 581
Brady, Michael, 435, 437, 438
Brattle Group, 544–45
Brazil, 507
Breitenbach, Annie, 509
British Petroleum, 237
British thermal units (BTUs), 465
Brooks, Paul W., 90, 125
Brownback, Sam, 150, 478
Brulte, Jim, 275–76
Brunswick pulp mill, 310–12, 316, 321
Buckeye Technologies, 483
Bucknum, Gary, 371–74, 376–80, 382–83, 385–88, 582
bumping the bottom, 48
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 17–19
Burgess, Ben, 179
Burkley, Matthew, 169n
Bush, George H. W., 143, 250–51, 400, 403, 561, 570
Bush, George W., 226–29, 239, 288, 359, 396, 433, 473
Bush, Jeb, 532
business development board, 224, 225
CAFE Standards, 556, 560
Caldwell, Mark, 521
California, 51, 116–17, 141, 188, 293, 322
clean fuel standards in, 475
congressional representatives from, 403, 438
conservative donor conferences in, 458, 547
energy crisis in, 263, 266, 268–92, 348–49, 581, 582, 587, 588
hydroelectric plants in, 249
labor union contracts in, 515
Libertarian Party in, 113
oil theft in, 129
warehouses for shipments to, 324
California Independent System Operator (ISO), 278, 283–84
California State University, 308
Canada, 50, 79n, 147, 447
oil imported to Pine Bend from, 50, 84, 544–45
Cancer, 344
benzene emissions causing, 189
cap-and-trade policy, 402–3
See also Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill
carbon emissions, 390, 394, 397, 400, 480
markets for, 411–12, 415, 417
regulation of, 456, 553–54, 557, 561 (See also Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill)
tax on, 402, 424, 450, 452, 453
Cargill, 196, 201, 205, 320n
Carnegie, Dale, 120
Carrier air conditioning company, 536
Carter, Jimmy, 250–51, 472
Castle, Mike, 425–26
Catapult Press, 506
Cato Institute, 395, 400, 412, 438, 445, 450n, 459, 479, 501
caustic soda, 100
Cayman Islands, tax haven of, 502–3, 549, 576
Center for American Progress, 397
Center for Public Integrity, 459, 503
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 28
Cerberus Capital Management, 294
CF Industries, 300
Chadwell, Charlie, 180–81, 184–86, 188
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, 274n, 395, 506
Chase Transportation Company, 222
Chemical plants, 3, 37, 65, 103, 311–12, 476
for building blocks of synthetics, 127, 313
divestment of, 222
feedstocks for, 469
job cuts in, 353
unionization of, 57
Cheney, Dick, 227
Cherokee tribe, 11
Chevron, 14, 99, 138, 188, 231
Chicago Board of Trade, 234, 238n
Chick-fil-A, 561
China, 306, 346, 444, 543
Border Adjustment Tax on products from, 418, 543
middle-class consumers in, 310–11
trade relations with, 147, 561
chromium contamination, 167
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), 459, 541
Civil Rights Act (1964), 420
Clark, Ed, 113
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, 395, 447–48
Clay, Don, 412
Clean Air Act (1963), 6, 93–94, 148–49, 397, 405, 414, 420
enforcement of standards of, 159, 473, 412, 609n
Clean Power Plan, 456, 553–54, 556, 560, 561
Clean Water Act (1972), 94
climate change/global warming, 400–402, 409, 411, 450, 534, 552–54, 559
denial of, 401–2, 412, 414, 424–26, 431, 439, 452, 553
; House Committees overseeing, 397, 417, 419–21, 557
Inglis attacked for views on, 416, 429–32, 440–54, 457, 581, 585
Kansas statehouse hearings on, 480, 482
legislation addressing, see Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill
lobbying against regulations to limit, 411, 412, 418, 432–34
treaties to combat, 560, 561
Trump’s fixation on fighting regulation of, 552, 556–57, 561
Climatewire news service, 553
Clinton, Bill, 138, 147, 238–39, 288, 348–49, 473, 570
neoliberalism of, 227, 228, 402, 446
Clinton, Hillary, 528, 532–33
Club for Growth, 539
CME Group, 436
CNBC, 436
coal, 104, 195, 398, 422, 556, 561
barges for transporting, 54
factory furnaces powered by, 406
mining and processing, 104, 195
power plants burning, 92, 259, 292, 456, 479, 553
Coastal Oil & Gas, 51–52
Coca-Cola, 14, 44
Cohen, Ana Unruh, 397
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), 348–50
Collins, Susan, 557
Colonial Pipeline, 476
Colorado, 95, 324
Americans for Prosperity in, 490, 493, 562
commodities markets, 1–3, 201, 241–44, 261, 374, 381, 464, 545
complexity of, 103, 135, 286
contango storage plays in, 355–56, 581
diversity of products in, 1, 3, 246, 266
legal consultations on, 225–26
McKinsey & Company study of, 237–38
in Tea Party, 437
volatility in, 200, 242, 247, 301, 312, 354, 464
wealth generated in, 2, 7, 99, 240, 261
See also Derivatives; Futures contracts
Commodity Futures Modernization Act (2000), 239, 349
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC), 621n
Communism, 62, 363, 439
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), 147–48, 459, 553, 582
Congress, US, 139, 148, 396, 402, 413, 427
campaign donation rules enacted by, 149
climate change denial in, 553
Freedom Caucus in, 546
lobbyists in, 408–9
during Nixon administration, 92
during Obama administration, 2, 359, 362, 390–91, 393–94, 404, 414–16, 460, 482
protests against, 425, 438, 538–40
during Roosevelt administration, 93
during Trump administration, 533, 541, 545, 550–51
See also House of Representatives, US; Senate, US
Congressional Budget Committee, 537
Congressional Quarterly, 547
Conoco, 21
ConocoPhillips, 356
conservatives, 42, 95, 113, 267–68, 274, 350, 434–35
“compassionate,” 227
compromise of principles of, 539
coordination of organizations of, 480
in Democratic Party, 415, 416, 419–21, 443, 450
grants for, 395
in Kansas, 482, 487
lobbying by, 409
private gatherings for, 458–60
religious, 273, 430, 588
in Republican Party, 92, 150, 204, 409, 416, 421, 435, 444, 451–53, 532
on Supreme Court, 93, 536
think tanks of, 95, 447
in Trump era, 546, 549, 561
Constitution, US, 431
Fourteenth Amendment, 93
Consumer Product Safety Commission, 114
Contango storage play, 355–56
continuous improvement, 16, 32–33, 122, 215
Cooper, Bonnie Sue, 274
Coors Brewing, 274
Cordes, Don, 28, 115–16, 133–34, 137, 495, 582
Corner Table LLC, 540
corporate culture, 202–3, 317, 321, 520
at Koch Industries, 482, 573, 590
Corporate Development Board, 295–97, 307, 310, 312, 320
corporate veil, 213, 223–24, 240, 312–13, 319, 405, 570
piercing, 212–13, 459
Corpus Christi refinery, 25, 126–27, 195, 241, 244–46, 568
acquisition of, 127
benzene emissions from, 188–89
Chase Koch at, 498–99, 587
light oil processed into feedstock at, 469–70
Market Based Management problems at, 156
pipelines constructed to, 462–63
profitability of, 345, 475–76
corporate development group, see development group
Correll, A. D. “Pete,” 321, 328
Corrigan, Michael, 139
corruption, 12, 13, 17, 481, 541, 551
Costco, 333
Cost of Living Council, 94
Cote, Alan, 387
Countrywide Financial, 347
CQ Roll Call, 547
Crane, Ed, 501
crash of 2008, 349–50, 352, 353, 356, 359
recession caused by, 421, 435, 442, 464, 517
credit default swaps, 348, 350
Creech, Bobby, 524
crony capitalism, 5, 481, 546
Crossen, Jack, 145
Crown Zellerbach, 325, 328
Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act (1980), 468
Cruz, Ted, 532
Cuban Missile Crisis, 47
Cummings, Don, 47
Customs Service, US, 248
Daily Analysis report, 258
Dakota County, Minnesota, Park System, 187
Danforth family, 202–3
DART tracking system, 525
Daschle, Tom, 19
David, Steven, 164, 177
Davis, Gray, 287–89, 292
Davis, James, 541
Decision Strategies International, 197n
DeConcini, Dennis, 18–20, 24, 33
Defense, US Department of, 147
Delaware, 353
DuPont pollution control violations in, 316
poultry industry in, 425
undervalued assets in, 307
Deltic Timber Corporation, 527
Deming, W. Edwards, 32–33, 122–24, 152
Democrats, 269, 287, 404, 435, 453, 457
and cap-and-trade legislation, 397, 414–16, 419–21, 443–45, 450, 453, 586
deregulation advocacy in, 269–71, 273
Koch’s antipathy to, 359–60, 362, 390, 393–94, 457
limitations on new refineries supported by, 474
lobbying of, 409–11, 430, 447, 581
loose majority in 2010 midterm election, 455–56
neoliberal policies of, 446
New Deal programs of, 93, 94
in oil theft investigation, 18, 19
renewable energy supported by, 481
Republicans denounced for compromises with, 451
during Trump administration, 542, 548, 535, 561, 562
in 2000 presidential election, 227
and union voters, 157, 528, 531–33
deregulation, 5, 113, 146, 227–28
of electricity market, 267–69, 273–80, 286–90, 588
of natural gas industry, 250–52, 257, 263
derivatives, 3, 4, 147, 238–39, 241–43, 255–57, 291, 409, 482, 568
financial instrument, 246, 293, 348–49
natural gas, 243, 246, 255, 257
Obama administration regulation of, 390, 436
origins of markets for, 229, 234
shadow stock, 571
wealth from trading in, 4, 238, 261, 263, 265, 498, 587, 590
detention ponds, 167–72, 174–76, 178, 180, 182
development group, 198–99, 214, 224, 239, 295–96, 501
acquisitions approved by, 125–26, 583
timeline of, 2–3, 125, 198
Devon Energy, 558
Devonian Shale, 468
Dingell, John, Jr., 397, 403, 419 directional drilling, see fracking
Discovery (newsletter), 6
> Dobbs, Lou, 447
Dodge, Brian, 514–16, 527–31, 582
Dole, Bob, 138
Donors Trust, 555
Doyle, Nancy, 621n
Drake, Edwin, 399
Dresner, Dick, 150–51
drilling rigs, 41, 84, 463
Drutman, Lee, 408, 577
Dubose, Philip, 7, 46–47, 122–24, 145, 189, 290
Koch method of oil collection mastered by, 7, 47–49, 122, 582
marine division and barges run by, 122–24, 128
as transportation manager for southeast division, 128–29
duck hunting, 34–35
Dunkin’ Donuts, 321–22
DuPont, 307, 311–12, 316
Dynergy, 287
Eagle Ford Shale formation, 463, 469, 470, 476–77, 482, 588, 590
Ebell, Myron, 553–56, 582
echo chamber tactic, 445–47
Economic Education Trust, 150
Egypt, surprise military attack on Israel by, 80
Ellender, Philip, 401, 406–9, 412, 432, 433, 583
Ellig, Jerry, 152
Elroy, James, 8, 11–13, 19–21, 33, 130–33, 140
oil theft evidence gathering by, 15–17, 26–28, 32, 135, 583
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4
Emporia State University, 221
Energy, US Department of, 108, 113, 114, 132, 468
Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, 555
Enron, 228, 254, 255, 260, 276–78, 280, 283, 286, 588
bankruptcy declared by, 292
bonuses to traders at, 264
derivatives business of, 239, 349
electricity crisis role of, 289–91
lobbyists for, 273–76
natural gas infrastructure managed by, 251
parking trading strategy of, 281, 283, 290
entrepreneurship, 50, 87, 97, 104, 125, 329, 331, 378, 396
American way of life centered on, 382
of Fred Koch, 34
Hayek’s influence on Koch’s encouragement of, 43
under Market Based Management, 521
in mergers and acquisitions, 45
Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), 559
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 93, 132, 146, 149, 316, 412, 414, 431, 456, 480
Koch Industries fined by, 187, 189, 526
Libertarian Party call for abolishment of, 14, 113–14
Pine Bend water pollution investigated by, 160, 173, 186
during Trump administration, 536, 552–61, 582, 588, 589
Ernst & Young, 268, 503
Estes, Ruth, 167, 169–76, 583
ethylene, 246
externalities, market, 417
Exxon, 21, 44, 90, 125, 228, 231, 244, 245
cooperates with Ballen’s investigation, 24, 26, 137–38
Koch purchases and shipments of oil from, 14, 22, 99
price cap on, 94
Exxon-Mobil, 450
Facebook, 3, 433, 437
Faircloth, Lydia, 524, 526
Faragher, Heather Lawrence, 7, 154–89, 315, 582
Farmland Industries, 298–305, 308, 466, 587
FBI, 2, 11–15, 20, 33, 134–35, 145, 186, 290
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