Koch Industries, Inc. /ˈkoʊk/) is an American private energy conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company.

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Campaign Finance

$23,950,221 Given
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Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

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View all campaign finance data for Koch Industries Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$71,412,700 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Koch Industries

View all lobbying data for Koch Industries Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 177 dockets; Submitted to 3 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Koch Industries" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

27 Enforcement Actions
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Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Invista S.A.R.L. (National Case) Invista S.A.R.L. 2009 La Porte, Tx; ... $170,099,602
Invista S.A.R.L. (National Case) Invista S.A.R.L. 2009 Athens, Ga; Calhoun, ... $48,978,946
Invista S.A.R.L (National Case)(Lead) Invista S.A.R.L. 2009 Martinsville, Va; Seaford, ... $24,672,748
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Admin Order On Consent (Cercla) Georgia-Pacific, LLC 2009 Kalamazoo, Mi $14,000,000
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Consent Decree Ou 2-Willow Boulevard (Cercla) Georgia Pacific Corp 2009 Kalamazoo, Mi $11,725,509
Koch Pipeline Company Koch Pipeline Company 2003 Algona, Ia $2,306,588
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River - Kalamazoo Mill And Hawthorne Mill Aoc (Cercla) Georgia-Pacific Corporation 2006 Kalamazoo, Mi $2,029,207
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products, Lp Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP 2007 Milford, Nj $2,000,000
Flint Hills Resources Alaska, Llc Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC 2008 North Pole, Ak $2,000,000
Colonial Pipeline Company Colonial Pipeline Company 2008 Winder, Ga $1,582,600
View all EPA violations data for Koch Industries Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

2 people on 3 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Koch Industries" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 1 person on 2 committees
  • Toggle Commodity Futures Trading Commission 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Koch Industries