WSJ News Exclusive | Koch Industries, Built on Oil, Bets Big on U.S. Batteries

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Koch Industries has its roots in oil. Now it’s betting on batteries.

CEO Charles Koch has fought climate regulation; his company is now spreading investments across the U.S. battery supply chain

Lithium prices are rising as demand for the key ingredient in electric car batteries grows, amid a broader push to move away from oil and gas. But extraction of the metal is time consuming and potentially harmful to the environment, and plans to produce more have prompted protests. Photo: STR/Getty Images, Oliver Bunic/AFP/Getty ImagesKoch Industries Inc.

A Koch Industries unit has made at least 10 investments worth at least $750 million in the U.S. battery supply chain and electric vehicles in the past 18 months, regulatory filings, news releases and FactSet data show. Koch’s battery investments are among the biggest from outside the auto industry, analysts say.

 

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The Koch Brothers pumped vast sums into anonymously-fund pressure groups and political campaigns that encouraged Americans to doubt everything.

Game changer for clean energy.

In next week's news the GOP reverses it's position on green energy, reports the change without any hint of irony.

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One of them is a Watcher. The Pope Still Hasn't gotten me a list of the 200 names.

Koch Industries about to undergo big changes when it's remaining founder meets our creator and be judged for all the repressive actions he and his family inflicted on his fellow man. Time for judgement is coming for many of these enablers of evil.

Time to overturn Citizens United and take democracy back from the Kochs?

They’re still doing business in Russia. 😡

Koch doesn’t support the sanctions on Russia

Has its roots from Stalin and Hitler.

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I, like everyone else, have been dreaming of this day for a long time

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