I suggest you read this article in full here: http://www.esquire.com/...
Charles Pierce at Esquire quotes extensively from an article in The New Yorker by Jane Meyer.
Here's a snip..
The House of Representatives voted to slash the EPA budget by 27 percent, one of the biggest cuts since President Richard Nixon and the Congress created the agency in 1970. The Senate subsequently modified the severity of these cuts, and the budget was ultimately cut by nearly 16 percent. What is less known is that more than 100 House members - all Republicans, many tea party members - signed a little-known "pledge" (similar to the Grover Norquist no tax increase pledge) backed by the Koch brothers promising to not spend any federal money to fight climate change without an equal amount of tax cuts. Most of the pledge signers received campaign contributions from Charles or David Koch or Koch Industries.
You'll want to read the rest of the article. It's short and to the point. The Kochs are a major force against saving the environment, and it appears Congress has been, once again, bought and paid for.
Until we decide we've had enough and take to the streets in numbers so massive that Congress gets the message, we're screwed. I'm ready. You?