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He is currently the Vice President for Operations Excellence and Compliance and is a member of the board of directors. Additionally, Mahoney has served as the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070806074723/www.npra.org/about/execroster.cfm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">chairman of the board</a> for the National Petrochemical and Refineries Association (<span class="caps">NPRA</span>), now called the <a href="http://www.kochvsclean.com/afpm/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">American Fuel <span class="amp">&</span> Petrochemical Manufacturers (<span class="caps">AFPM</span>)</a>.</span></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mahoney and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers / National Petrochemical Refineries Association</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Mahoney served as the chairman of the <span class="caps">NPRA</span> from 2007 to 2008 and served as chairman of the board of directors of the <span class="caps">AFPM</span> from 2012 to 2014. The <span class="caps">NPRA</span>/<span class="caps">AFPM</span> is a national trade association for the petrochemical and refining industries. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has hundreds of<a href="https://www.afpm.org/membership-directory/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> members</a> including Exxon Mobil Corporation, Chevron Corporation, <span class="caps">BP</span>, Koch Industries, Inc., Valero, Tesoro, Shell Chemical Company and DuPont.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="http://www.npra.org/about/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">A</a><a href="https://www.afpm.org/about-afpm/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">merican Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers</a> describes itself as the “trade association representing high-tech American manufacturers of virtually the entire <span class="caps">U.S.</span> supply of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, other fuels and home heating oil, as well as the petrochemicals used as building blocks for thousands of vital products in daily life.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stance on Climate Change </font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.afpm.org/policy-position-greenhouse-gas-regulations/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="caps">AFPM</span>'s official stance on greenhouse gas regulations</a> is that “<span class="caps">AFPM</span> believes that using this 40-year-old law [the Clean Air Act] to control of[sic] greenhouse gases (<span class="caps">GHG</span>) emissions threatens our nation's economic and energy security.” </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span class="caps">AFPM</span> also claims in its <a href="https://www.afpm.org/policy-positions-environmental-regulations/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Policy Position on Environmental Regulations</a> that “we are concerned that <span class="caps">EPA</span> and other agencies have at times moved from regulation to overregulation, making unreasonable and often conflicting demands on our members to spend enormous sums to make changes in their manufacturing processes that bring little or no significant environmental or health benefits.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the <a href="http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:x_kGRYI-mZYJ:www.aspentech.com/publication_files/hydro_proc_march_20081.pdf+%22james+mahoney%22%2Bkoch+industries&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">106th <span class="caps">NPRA</span> Annual Meeting</a> held on March 11, 2008, Chairman James Mahoney stated that “any climate change legislation will have a dramatic long-term impact on the entire <span class="caps">US</span> economy and should therefore be considered very carefully. Given the current technology in the refining industry, we have limited options to change greenhouse gas output.” </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mahoney went on to explain that the best method for tackling climate change is to promote an open, competitive, and free market for all of America's industries.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James Mahoney and Fueling <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Forward</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mahoney helped develop <a href="http://www.fuelingusforward.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Fueling <span class="caps">U.S.</span> Forward</a>, a Koch-funded campaign designed to tout the benefits of fossil fuels (without ever mentioning the significant negative impacts of burning fossil fuels on air quality, public health or the global climate). As investigative journalist <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Peter Stone revealed in the Huffington Post</a> in<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> February 2016, James Mahoney and <a href="http://www.kochvsclean.com/charles-drevna/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Charlie Drevna</a> teamed up to pitch the concept of launching a pro-petroleum campaign to refining companies Valero and Tesoro and other energy interests.</span>
In his piece, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The Kochs Are Plotting A <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Multimillion-Dollar Assault On Electric Vehicles</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,</span> Stone wrote that the “fledgling Mahoney and Drevna efforts seem to signal an expansion of Koch-backed drives against subsidies and tax breaks for alternative fuels to the transportation sector, at a time when support may be on the rise in Washington and some states for boosting electric vehicles.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="108" data-total-count="108" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; 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outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mr. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mahoney</span> joined <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch Industries</span>, Inc. since 1988 in Corpus Christi, Texas and ... to 1 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Board Members</span>in 1 different organizations across 2 different industries.</font></span></a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="43" data-ved="0ahUKEwjv3ej0yMzSAhVL3mMKHdXuAYYQFQgrKAMwAw" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.reference.com/business-finance/part-koch-industries-board-directors-549650599fa32844" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Who is part of Koch Industries' board of directors? | Reference.com</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; 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Charles<span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch</span> is Chairman of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Board</span> and the company's CEO.</font></span></a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="49" data-ved="0ahUKEwjv3ej0yMzSAhVL3mMKHdXuAYYQFQgxKAQwBA" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-mahoney-9ab09014" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Jim Mahoney | LinkedIn</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv _SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<b>jim</b>-<b>mahoney</b>-9ab09014</font></cite></div><div class="f slp"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wichita, Kansas Area - EVP - Operations at Koch Industries - Koch Industries</font></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Mahoney's</span> professional profile on LinkedIn. 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Details. Is Current, yes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Board member</span>, yes. 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Second-largest private company in the US, involved in... <span style="font-weight: bold;">Board Member</span> [ +2 ].</font></span></a></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rc" data-hveid="74" data-ved="0ahUKEwjv3ej0yMzSAhVL3mMKHdXuAYYQFQhKKAkwCQ" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://fortune.com/2016/02/22/elon-musk-koch-brothers-twitter/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Elon Musk Fights Back Against the Koch Brothers' Lobbying | Fortune ...</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f kv _SWb" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><cite class="Rm" style="font-style: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fortune.com/2016/02/22/elon-musk-<b>koch</b>-brothers-twitter/</font></cite></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f">Feb 22, 2016 - </span>Musk went on to argue that the traditional auto industry—and the oil and gas ... by <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Mahoney</span>, a <span style="font-weight: bold;">member</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Koch Industries board</span>.</font></span></div></div></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="108" data-total-count="108" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="108" data-total-count="108" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="108" data-total-count="108" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The crowd that thronged a gospel concert last month in Richmond, Va., was in for an unusual Christmas treat.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="232" data-total-count="340" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Your energy bill’s paid!” the M.C. declared between soaring numbers from recording artists like <a href="http://www.vashawnmitchell.com/">VaShawn Mitchell</a> and <a href="https://charlesjenkins.com/">Charles Jenkins</a>, calling to a young woman from the audience, who shrieked and started twirling on the floor.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="438" data-total-count="778" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though few in the crowd knew it, the <a href="http://www.fuelingusforward.com/fueling-holidays-richmond-va/">concert</a> had a powerful sponsor: <a href="http://www.fuelingusforward.com/">Fueling U.S. Forward</a>, a public relations group for fossil fuels funded by Koch Industries, the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/oil-petroleum-and-gasoline/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about oil." class="meta-classifier">oil</a> and petrochemicals conglomerate led by the ultraconservative billionaire brothers David H. and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/charles_g_koch/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Charles G. Koch." class="meta-per">Charles G. Koch</a>. About halfway through the event, the music gave way to a panel discussion on how the holidays were made possible by energy — cheap energy, like oil and gas.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="154" data-total-count="932" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The concert flier was adorned with a red car bearing Christmas gifts. “Thankful for the fuels and innovation that make modern life possible,” it read.
The Kochs, whose use of their fortune to promote climate-change denial research has angered environmentalists, are quietly courting new allies in their quest for a fossil fuel resurgence: minorities.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="254" data-total-count="1385" id="story-continues-3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since its start in the spring of 2016, Fueling U.S. Forward has sent delegates to, or hosted, at least three events aimed at black voters, arguing that they benefit most from cheap and abundant fossil fuels and have the most to lose if energy costs rise.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="366" data-total-count="1751" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fueling U.S. Forward is “dedicated to educating the public about the value and potential of American energy, the vast majority of which comes from fossil fuels,” the group says on its website. “We’ll talk to people of diverse backgrounds — industry employees, small-business owners, community leaders and low-income families — and share their stories.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="51" data-total-count="1802" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group has seen early results from its outreach.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="355" data-total-count="2157" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Policies that subsidize <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/electric_vehicles/index.html?&inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about electric vehicles." class="meta-classifier">electric vehicles</a> and solar panels for the wealthy raise energy prices and harm the black community,” read recommendations adopted by delegates at the <a href="http://thenbpc.com/" title="Convention link">National Black Political Convention</a> in Gary, Ind., in August. The event brought together African-American political groups and counted Fueling U.S. Forward among its sponsors.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="287" data-total-count="2444" id="story-continues-4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’re standing up for poor, underserved communities,” said Linda Haithcox, executive director of the National Policy Alliance, which organized the convention. She said her group’s funding from Fueling U.S. Forward and <a href="http://npalinks.org/partners/">other energy groups</a> had not affected its position on energy.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="400" data-total-count="2844" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement, Charles Drevna, president and chief executive of Fueling U.S. Forward and a former vice president at Sunoco, the company behind the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/us/federal-officials-to-explore-different-route-for-dakota-pipeline.html">Dakota Access</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/us/federal-officials-to-explore-different-route-for-dakota-pipeline.html"> oil </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/us/federal-officials-to-explore-different-route-for-dakota-pipeline.html">pipeline</a>, confirmed that the group was supported by Koch Industries, among other backers. “I am proud to help Fueling U.S. Forward promote the importance of domestic oil and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/natural-gas/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about natural gas." class="meta-classifier">natural gas</a> to making people’s lives better,” he said.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="83" data-total-count="2927" id="story-continues-5" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Koch Industries spokesman, David Dziok, did not respond to a request for comment.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="307" data-total-count="3234" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kochs’ public relations drive takes a page from minority outreach by other industry lobbies, like those representing tobacco and soft drinks. Those industries have long argued that stiffer regulations or taxes on cigarettes or sodas would disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities.</font></p><figure id="media-100000004845280" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000004845280 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/29/business/30KOCH/30KOCH-master675.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; margin: 45px 0px; position: relative; flex-direction: column; clear: both; max-width: none; width: 645px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Photo</font></span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></figure><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="339" data-total-count="3573" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It also adds a new dimension to the Kochs’ more traditional approach to climate and the environment, which has mainly involved financing research skeptical of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming." class="meta-classifier">climate change</a>, backing pro-oil politicians and ballot initiatives, and fighting incentives for renewable energy, all through a network of charitable and political organizations.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="263" data-total-count="3836" id="story-continues-6" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fueling U.S. Forward is a more emotional campaign. “How do we start winning hearts and minds?” Alex Fitzsimmons, the Fueling U.S. Forward spokesman, wondered in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedStateBlog/videos/1495315943830694/">Facebook Live broadcast</a> he hosted with Mr. Drevna in August at the <a href="http://gathering.redstate.com/rsg16/">RedState Gathering</a> in Denver.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="412" data-total-count="4248" id="story-continues-7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eddie Bautista, executive director of the <a href="http://www.nyc-eja.org/">NYC Environmental Justice Alliance</a>, a nonprofit that works with low-income and minority neighborhoods on environmental issues, called the campaign “an exploitative, sad and borderline racist strategy.” He pointed to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/energy-environment/solar-and-wind-energy-start-to-win-on-price-vs-conventional-fuels.html">falling cost</a>s associated with renewable energy, which he said made shifting away from reliance on fossil fuels a winning proposition for everyone.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="227" data-total-count="4475" id="story-continues-8" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In seeking to change hearts and minds, Fueling U.S. Forward addresses a greater conundrum for the Kochs, their private empire — which generates an estimated <a href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/koch-industries/">$100 billion in sales</a> a year — and the wider fossil fuel industry.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="346" data-total-count="4821" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years, the industry has increased its sway among Republicans, supporting a rightward shift toward sharp cutbacks of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/social_security_us/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Social Security." class="meta-classifier">Social Security</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about Medicare." class="meta-classifier">Medicare</a> and the rollback of environmental protections. And the Kochs find themselves well positioned to influence the Trump administration, with many allies in important cabinet and transition posts.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="518" data-total-count="5339" id="story-continues-9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President-elect <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Donald J. Trump." class="meta-per">Donald J. Trump</a>’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma, has received contributions from Kochpac, the political action committee of Koch Industries. Mr. Trump tapped Mr. Pruitt after entrusting the agency’s transition to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/myron-ebell-trump-epa.html">Myron Ebell</a>, who is a director at the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/us/challenge-to-health-law-puts-obscure-think-tank-in-spotlight.html">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, an advocacy organization that has received funding from the Kochs’ charitable foundations, and who has been hostile to the work of the E.P.A.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="324" data-total-count="5663" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But numerous polls show that a majority of American voters continue to support many environmental regulations, including those that govern carbon dioxide emissions. And there is significant support among voters, even in red states, for renewable energy sources like wind and solar, which the Kochs have long worked to quash.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="249" data-total-count="5912" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fueling U.S. Forward seeks to narrow that schism by courting public support. The group is set to air ads in Virginia and Indiana, the news site Environment & Energy <a href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060042326">reported</a> in September. The ads portray fossil fuels as the driver of human progress.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="326" data-total-count="6238" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This moment we’re in didn’t just happen. We didn’t just arrive here by luck — a world where billions of people have greater opportunities came about through years of progress,” a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQOSPalscs">preview</a> posted on the group’s site states. In the backdrop is video of people driving, turning on lights and plugging in appliances.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="108" data-total-count="6346" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We got here, the ad says, by “harnessing the power of the earth and the natural fuels of soil and rock.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="331" data-total-count="6677" id="story-continues-10" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It remains unclear who else, apart from the Kochs, is financing Fueling U.S. Forward. It is registered as a nonprofit business association, a designation that allows its involvement in both lobbying and political activities. But because it is so new, it has not yet made public filings detailing its financial and other activities.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="303" data-total-count="6980" id="story-continues-11" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fueling U.S. Forward’s outreach to minorities builds on work by two Koch-funded organizations, the <a href="http://thelibreinitiative.com/">Libre Initiative</a> and <a href="https://generationopportunity.org/">Generation Opportunity</a>, that have focused on Latinos and millennials. The Kochs have also previously reached out to black organizations on issues related to criminal justice reform.</font></p><figure id="media-100000004845281" class="media photo embedded layout-large-horizontal media-100000004845281 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/29/business/30koch2-web/30koch2-web-master675.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: flex; margin: 45px 0px; position: relative; flex-direction: column; clear: both; max-width: none; width: 645px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Photo</font></span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer; flex-shrink: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></figure><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="7244" id="story-continues-12" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group has even experimented with outreach to the kind of left-wing audience that has long vilified the Kochs. In his Facebook Live broadcast, Mr. Drevna specifically addressed those critics, inviting them to see fossil fuels as part of a progressive worldview.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="130" data-total-count="7374" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Energy security means economic security,” Mr. Drevna said. “Economic security means an increased, progressive lifestyle.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="321" data-total-count="7695" id="story-continues-13" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Dec. 14, Mr. Fitzsimmons, the Fueling U.S. Forward spokesman, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/12/will-humans-run-out-of-fertilizer/510557/">got an article published on The Atlantic’s website</a> that promoted fertilizers made from natural gas, a product made by a Koch subsidiary. Mr. Fitzsimmons, who wrote the article, was initially described only as an energy policy analyst based in Washington.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="383" data-total-count="8078" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After being contacted by The New York Times, The Atlantic said that though Mr. Fitzsimmons had disclosed his affiliation with the group, it had not been aware of his role as spokesman, and it appended an editor’s note to the article. Fueling U.S. Forward has featured the article prominently on both its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=357812487910740&id=244247975933859">Facebook page</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FuelingUSFwd/status/809037956879155200">Twitter feed</a>, emphasizing that it appeared in The Atlantic.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="119" data-total-count="8197" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group’s outreach to African-Americans has been more overt, and involved multiple members of the Kochs’ network.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="200" data-total-count="8397" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Drevna attended the August conference in Gary alongside Horace Cooper, a fellow at the conservative <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/NCPPRHist.html">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>, who gave a speech on energy policy, organizers said.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="364" data-total-count="8761" id="story-continues-14" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later that month, Mr. Drevna gave a speech on fossil fuels at </span><a href="http://www.nlrcforum2016.com/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an annual training forum</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in Atlantic City organized by </span><a href="http://www.bignet.org/index.php/about-us/philosophy-a-history" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blacks in Government</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a national organization for black Civil Service employees that the Koch-funded group now sponsors.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Mr. Drevna was accompanied by <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=23874473&capId=127342">James Mahoney</a>, a Koch Industries board member, and the two appear in <a href="http://www.bignet.org/images/stories/2016/legislativepictures/">a photo</a> taken at the event.</span></font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="145" data-total-count="8906" id="story-continues-15" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Richmond gospel concert was organized by Fueling U.S. Forward, the nonprofit <a href="http://reachingamerica.org/">Reaching America</a> and <a href="https://radio-one.com/">Radio One</a>, which caters to black listeners.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="195" data-total-count="9101" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Representing Fueling U.S. Forward was <a href="http://americanenergyalliance.org/staff/hrelat/">Hubbel Relat</a>, a former vice president at the <a href="http://americanenergyalliance.org/">American Energy Alliance</a>, which has received funding from Freedom Partners, a central group in the Koch network.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="312" data-total-count="9413" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He discussed what high energy costs could mean for households in Richmond, which has a large African-American population. And he encouraged audience members to contact their legislators to lodge concerns about energy costs, said Clovia Lawrence, a local journalist and radio personality who helped host the show.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="148" data-total-count="9561" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then four lucky people picked from the crowd of about 300 were told that their latest monthly electricity bills would be paid, up to $250, she said.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="68" data-total-count="9629" id="story-continues-16" data-node-uid="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" max-width="max-width" none="none" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Everyone was so excited,” she said. “Everyone was dancing.”</font></p><div id="addenda" class="addenda" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 30px; width: 570px;"><div class="story-addendum story-content theme-correction" style="max-width: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 75px; line-height: 1.4375rem;" times="times" new="new" roman="roman" serif="serif" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" em="em" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" width="width" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Correction: January 5, 2017 </span>
</font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.4375rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An earlier version of this article, using information provided by the American Energy Alliance, misstated Hubbel Relat’s position with the organization. He is a former vice president; he does not currently hold that position.</font></p></div></div></div></div>