Amazing what a half hour of good television can do...
One forgets with all the crap on TV, the power of investigative journalism on the small screen.
The program "People and Power" on Al Jazeera has been working for months on the Koch Brothers expose.

Greenpeace USA recently released an updated report on Koch Industries.

For those following the political wrangling of the now-infamous industrial billionaire Koch brothers, which has become increasingly hard not to follow, the last couple weeks have been a real whirlwind of activity.

The opinions of David Koch are...

Early this morning Greenpeace activists scaled a coal plant in Bridgeport, Connecticut to send a message that dirty coal plants are responsible for thousands of deaths in America every year and are destroying our planet.

The activists hung a 40ft. x 20ft. banner at the Bridgeport...

Of dirty Koch money, climate denial and misleading Congress?

Today, Rep. Henry Waxman sent a letter to Rep. Fred Upton seeking to pull career global warming denier Pat Michaels in for questioning. Upton is the ranking Republican leader of the House Energy and Commerce...

David Koch, one of the richest men in America and owner of the largest private energy company in the United States took to the stage over the Christmas holiday to receive praise for his $2.5 million sponsorship of the American Ballet Theatre's production of the Nutcracker... and a...

First some markers. Yesterday was the autumnal equinox and we say goodbye to a very hot - ozone air pollution alert filled - summer. My kids' lungs thank you  American Petroleum Institute (not)...

This week marks my 10th anniversary at Greenpeace. Yesterday was the five month anniversary of the BP...

"The oil is on the surface. There aren't any plumes."

This was one of Tony Hayward's famously foolish proclamations during his desperate final months as the CEO of British Petroleum, before he was relocated to Russia, perhaps to "get his life back"... With his $18 million severance package,...

Check out today's New York Magazine article on the second richest man in New York, and richest climate denier on the planet, David Koch:

The Billionaire's Party: David Koch is New York's second-richest man, a celebrated patron of the arts, and the tea party's wallet.

The best...

The horrific and historic environmental disaster unfolding before our eyes in the Gulf of Mexico has everyone taking a new look at the true cost of oil addiction.

Everything was going so well for Big Oil. The American Petroleum Institute, its members, and their army of lobbyists were having...

Greenpeace's investigation into oil billionaires David and Charles Koch and their funding of climate denial organizations led our Climate Crime Unit to New York City, as the effort to apprehend these major funders of climate denial organizations continues. Our investigation led from the...

After Greenpeace released the report "Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine" a few days back, the Koch damage control team sent the New York Times a thin PR response that read like a libertarian textbook on environmental policy. Not surprisingly, Koch's response...

When Greenpeace's PolluterWatch launched PolluterHarmony last month, it quickly became the #1 online matchmaking site for polluters, industry lobbyists, & politicians. Even though some were a little shy about the attention, Jeff and Lisa's touching story of a polluter lobbyist and his...

During the opening ceremony of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Greenpeace deployed our Climate Crime Unit to search for David Koch; namesake of the new exhibit, oil billionaire, and major funder of the climate denial industry.

Three Greenpeace activists were taken into custody after deploying a floating banner in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in plain view of a favorite destination for polluter lobbyists - Senator Lisa Murkowski's Washington DC office. The banner exposed Murkowski's close relationship with dirty energy interests and promoted...

With the Federal government shut down by back to back record breaking blizzards, members of Congress are huddled at home, wandering the internet, perhaps looking for a match made in heaven. Across town in the K Street frat houses, hoards of hungry lobbyists, unable to pursue their desired prey on...

Finally. After years of denying its role in the campaign of climate denial, Exxon has revealed a dirty secret, that it has and likely still is directly funding junk scientists.

The ExxonMobil 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report and Worldwide Giving Report were just released by the company ahead of...