[net-gold] ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: Rand Paul Suggests Polluters Like The Koch Brothers Should Go To Jail
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- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
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ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS:
Rand Paul Suggests Polluters Like The Koch Brothers Should Go To Jail
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Rand Paul Suggests Polluters Like The Koch Brothers Should Go To Jail
By Lee Fang
Sep 23, 2011 at 11:30 am
Think Progress
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[Video Included]
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/09/23/326662/rand-paul-charles-koch/
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Typically a reliable voice in support of corporate greed, Sen. Rand Paul
(R-KY) suggested this week that petrochemical polluters like David and
Charles Koch should go to jail.
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Mallory Factor of The Street interviewed Paul a few days ago. During the
conversation, Paul blasted efforts by environmentalists to rein in
unregulated hydrofracking. But at one point, the junior senator from
Kentucky pivoted and made a caveat. Paul said people who pollute with
benzene, a carcinogenic chemical, should go to jail:
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PAUL: I dont want to pollute the water. I dont want to pollute
streams. If you dump benzene in the stream, I want you to go to jail.
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As it turns out, Koch Industries, the petrochemical conglomerate owned by
David and Charles Koch, has dumped benzene into streams.
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In 2000, the Department of Justice served the company with an indictment
for allowing at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled benzene in its liquid
waste streams during a period in 1995 at its Corpus Christi refinery.
Prosecutors alleged that the company was well aware of its pollution, and
that Kochs employees conspired to deceive regulators.
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Shortly after President Bush took office in 2001, his Attorney General
John Ashcroft dropped 88 counts against Koch for the benzene spill and
cover-up. Koch pleaded guilty to falsifying documents, all major charges
were dropped and the company settled the lawsuit for $20 million, a small
part of the possible $350 million in fines. The Bush administration, the
beneficiary of large Koch campaign checks, essentially slapped the company
on the wrist for leaking a chemical known to cause leukemia.
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Ron Paul and the Koch Brothers from Google News Archives
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and+%22koch+brothers%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_scoring=r&btnG=
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cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2000%2Ccd_max%3A9%2F25%2F2011
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3mf3qs6
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