Stolpe, E

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Elizabeth Stolpe – Elizabeth Stolpe was the associate director for toxics and environmental

protection at CEQ from 200131 to 2006.32 Prior to joining the Bush administration, Ms. Stolpe

was an in-house lobbyist for oil conglomerate, Koch Industries.33

After leaving the administration in 2006, Ms. Stolpe joined Shell Oil, where she is a registered

lobbyist for the company.34

Koch's lobbying team is headed by Matt Schlapp, who was director of the White House Office of Political Affairs for the Bush-Cheney regime. He replaced Elizabeth Stolpe, who (follow the spinning yo-yo here) went to work for Bush as associate director for environmental protection.

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<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/01/koch-pollution-astroturf-2deca/">http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/01/koch-pollution-astroturf-2deca/</a>  koch timeline

– 2001

– Koch <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00156.htm">pours</a> $800,000 to Bush and Republicans for the 2000 election, funnels up to $20 million into various conservative think tanks and organizations.

– In the months preceding the presidential elections, the Koch faced a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, known to cause leukemia, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. After Bush took office in 2001, 88 counts were dropped. Two days before the trial, then-Attorney General Ashcroft agreed to a plea bargain. Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents, all major charges were dropped and the company settled the lawsuit for $20 million, a small part of the possible $350 million in fines. This was the fifth largest ever settlement for criminal environmental prosecutions.

– In North Carolina, Koch’s Citizens for a Sound Economy fights to <a href="http://www.mountainx.com/news/2002/1113environment.php">stymie</a> efforts to get 12,850 acres of forest in Avery County designated as wilderness. In organizing anti-tax and anti-regulation rallies, CSE experiments with the idea of reenacting a “Boston Tea Party.” Paul O’Connor, a columnist for the North Carolina Dispatch, pans the CSE-organized tea party rallies as a “<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qO0bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=21IEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5320,3164995&dq=rally+citizens-for-a-sound-economy&hl=en">flop</a>.”

– The Bush administration <a href="http://projects.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=347">appoints</a> Koch Industries lobbyists and political operatives to key environmental positions throughout the federal government. For instance, Koch Industries lobbyist Elizabeth Stolpe is appointed associate director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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– 2002:

– Bush appoints Jeffrey Holmstead to head the EPA’s clean air program. Holmstead had previously served as a <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tgAiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0n8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2965,1374979&dq=environment+citizens-for-a-sound-economy&hl=en">scholar</a> at Koch’s Citizens for a Sound Economy, writing papers to roll back EPA protections.

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