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The Lexington Institute was founded in 1998 by former U.S. Representative James Courter (R-NJ), former congressional aide Merrick "Mac" Carey, and former Georgetown University professor Loren B. Thompson, who are the chairman, chief executive officer and chief operating officer of the Institute, respectively.
Dan Gouré is the Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a thinktank based in Arlington, Virginia, and an analyst on national security and military issues for NBC.He has worked as an adjunct professor in the National Defense University's Homeland Security program under the SNSEE since 2003. [1]
The Koch family foundations are a group of charitable foundations in the United States associated with the family of Fred C. Koch.The most prominent of these are the Charles Koch Foundation and the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation, created by Charles Koch and David Koch, two sons of Fred C. Koch who own the majority of Koch Industries, an oil, gas, paper, and chemical conglomerate which is ...
Exxon Mobil Corp, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute had asked the justices to review a March decision by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Koch Petroleum paid a $6 million fine and $2 million in remediation costs and was ordered to serve three years of probation. [102] In 2000, as a result of 312 oil spills attributed to Koch and its subsidiaries across six states, Koch paid what was at the time the largest civil fine ever imposed on a company under any federal environmental law.
Fred Chase Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which – under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David – would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the ...
Kochland was widely praised upon its release. In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer described the book as a “deeply and authoritatively reported" work that "marshals a huge amount of information and uses it to help solve two enduring mysteries: how the Kochs got so rich, and how they used that fortune to buy off American action on climate change”. [4]
In June 1957, representing the Ashland Independent School District's Board of Education, [1] and with the support of Governor Happy Chandler, Ashland Oil & Refining Company founder [2] and CEO Paul G. Blazer [3] presented a proposal to President Frank G. Dickey and the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for the university to take over the ...