In our capitalist world, being an informed buyer sometimes feels like our only power to make change. We vow to boycott brands funded by the Koch family in protest of their promotion of fracking in America, including public lands. Here is a long list of those brands which includes many paper products such as Angel Soft, Brawny, Dixie, and Quilted Northern: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288957/-Sign-the-pledge-Don-t-buy-these-Koch-products.
The Sierra Club has a summary of the Koch involvement with fracking here: http://www.sierraclub.org/politics-and-elections/koch-brothers-and-oil-money and in an article from Truth-out.org, here is more information about the threats our National Parks face: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26322-worried-about-climate-change-ban-fracking-on-federal-lands. The most recent news is that the Federal rules which “would require oil and gas companies to reveal the chemicals they inject, to meet construction standards in drilling wells and to safely dispose of contaminated water” are being rejected by states such as Colorado, according to the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28901828/federal-judge-blocks-blm-rules-fracking-public-lands.
Familiar brands funded by the Koch Industries
In our capitalist world, being an informed buyer sometimes feels like our only power to make change. We vow to boycott brands funded by the Koch family in protest of their promotion of fracking in America, including public lands. Here is a long list of those brands which includes many paper products such as Angel Soft, Brawny, Dixie, and Quilted Northern: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288957/-Sign-the-pledge-Don-t-buy-these-Koch-products.
The Sierra Club has a summary of the Koch involvement with fracking here: http://www.sierraclub.org/politics-and-elections/koch-brothers-and-oil-money and in an article from Truth-out.org, here is more information about the threats our National Parks face: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26322-worried-about-climate-change-ban-fracking-on-federal-lands. The most recent news is that the Federal rules which “would require oil and gas companies to reveal the chemicals they inject, to meet construction standards in drilling wells and to safely dispose of contaminated water” are being rejected by states such as Colorado, according to the Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28901828/federal-judge-blocks-blm-rules-fracking-public-lands.