big dirty energy company like the koch brothers have, they've got to do whatever they can to protect their profits, even if that means keeping us from moving over to clean energy, even if that means making sure we've got lots of smog and lots of asthma, and lots of cancer, they don't care. the koch brothers pollute the communities where people are trying to fight back.

people are trying to stand up for what's right, but the koch brothers are doing everything they can to beat those communities down so they can keep making the same amount of money doing the same old dirty business. something is wrong on this street, penn road, where i live. something is wrong here in this community. it's killing people. just like it killed my daughter. i live on penn road. people call me mr. bouie because i'm a minister. i've pastored a church for 22 years in this area. i'm a reserve deputy sheriff and i'm a senior citizen. this house is mr. warfield gibbs, his wife bobbie sue gibbs passed away with multiple cancers a few years ago. i have to do this three to four times a day. this house here belongs to mr. george parker and his missus, ollie parker

both of them was taken out by cancer. my husband died of lung cancer and i am having breathing problems. mr. tom perkins and his wife, they live here. mr. tom perkins is deceased now. he had multiple cancers. we have 15 homes in this area and maybe 11 people has died-- or more-- with cancer, and that's unreal. what's going on here is a crime. [sniffling] oh, it's just a waste. my daughter latisha died at 43. she grew up in the neighborhood. she had a husband, a devoted husband, she had children that she really and truly loved, and i think that she died too young. she was a non-smoker, she was not a drinker, and she got lung cancer. you know, you wonder, where did it come from? these people are sick, they're dying. this is inexcusable.

that's murderous. good to see you again. when i met mr. bouie, i could not believe what was going on in this neighborhood. i think it has to do with our environment. what we smell, what we inhale. we were deer hunting in the back, and we noticed that there was such a strong, strong odor back there. the smell was so strong and so bad. it was awful. i started noticing in my river these sheets of black coming downstream. the color is different, the smell is different, the whole river is different. it's rough, whatever is in it is killing these trees. they have cut this huge channel, and it is like an open sewer line. [mr. bouie] this is where the smell is coming from. [coughs] you can see the steam coming from the stuff, and at times it gets so bad it's like a big cloud,

and it gets up in the air and it flows right over the trees where our property is. it is our mission to find out what it is, who's behind it and how to stop it. it causes the throat to be sore, eyes to hurt, nose, and it's harsh to breathe in. the first time that i came here and saw the color of the water, it was like an epiphany. this right here, this private property, if you could follow it in a straight line, you would be at georgia pacific's plant, owned by koch industry. [bouie] it's pitiful that koch allowed this kind of stuff to be dumped, just dumped, in the wide open like this. [slavant] once i saw this, i knew koch industries were the culprits. they know that these people are sick. [bouie] koch industries, georgia pacific, they employ thousands of people here in crossett, and it's hard to come up against a company

that employs so many people. [slavant] the neighborhood of penn road is at ground zero and right through these woods are these ditches carrying these various types of pollutions from the georgia pacific plant. and that industrial process includes the use and discharges to the air and to the water of a lot of nasty chemicals. the georgia pacific complex in west crossett releases millions of gallons a day of waste water into a whole series of ditches. one might characterize these exposures... as a ticking time bomb to the people's health that are breathing the air that's flowing from these open ditches. [slavant] it's such a hard battle that these people have here. they don't have money, and their state representatives are all influenced by the koch brothers and this whole system they have put together to be able to do whatever they want to. [pounding gavel] the senate will come to order. [connolly] koch brothers' direct contributions has been an investment well worth it. it's certainly a lot less expensive

than actually having to retrofit factories. the epa will have doors locked and the lights turned off. koch industries not only manipulates the political process, but more importantly to me is, they manipulate the public into believing that the epa is killing jobs. the epa is intent on taking matters into their own hands, which will result in a bleeding of jobs. it is a problem when politicians are calling epa and saying, leave them alone, rather than calling them and saying do your job and clean it up. workers in my state don't want to see the lost jobs... jobs. jobs. jobs. jobs. ...that epa's big government takeover would bring. koch is using natural streams to transport waste and this is not allowed by the clean water act, and they can do it because epa lets them do it. koch industries are repeat offenders of environmental crimes.

koch industries is one of the primary sources of pollution in the united states. [vanden heuvel] they have a history of serious and even criminal pollution problems. [cenk uygur] koch industry subsidiaries have paid millions in environmental fines. [rachel maddow] the koch brothers are trying to stop the government from limiting greenhouse gas emissions. [olbermann] government regulators have fined koch industries and its subsidiaries tens of millions for oil spills and pollution over the years. [dr. jarrell] in 2000, a federal grand jury returned a 97 count indictment against koch industries in corpus christi, texas. they were charged not only with emitting more benzene than they were allowed to, they tried to cover it up. benzene is a known human carcinogen. people that are breathing benzene have increased risk of developing cancer. that's known. it's not suspected. it is known. [dr. jarrell] but the bush administration worked with koch to come up with a plea bargain, so it went from 97 count indictment to 1 count. the potential $350 million to just $20 million fine.

as an environmental criminologist, watching this case evolve makes me sick. they know they can get away with it. they'll just wait and be fined. if they ever get caught-- which in most cases they won't ever be caught-- because the epa is understaffed and underfunded. [bouie] the koch brothers care more for their income than they do their neighbors, and people are constantly dying. it's just called cheap, and not caring about people, or rivers or the environment, or anyone but their bottom line. david koch, he can stop this, just as he donates millions of dollars to try to find a cure for cancer. it began 16 years ago when i discovered that i had prostate cancer, and that i had not long to live. what kind of man is david, if he has cancer and put all his money into research, and then he's dumping in our backyard.

today my cancer is very much under control, and my doctor advises me that i have many more years to live. he was able to buy good medicine to see the best doctors. the fact that this magnificent research facility has been named after me is probably the greatest honor i've ever been awarded. [bouie] with david koch knowing that he has been right there where we, the people of this community are now, and when you look around you and see people dying every day, then that's shocking to us. i've lived here for 39 years. my husband died of lung cancer and i am having breathing problems, and i feel that i might eventually have lung problems. [bouie] the koch brothers. i'm reaching out hoping, and asking them to fix this problem, because we need help here. [salvant] in the old west they called it being outgunned. they're outgunned by the koch brothers.

so, i feel like their only hope is to make people realize what's happening here. [buzzing] if i could talk to koch brothers face to face, i'd just really believe i'm dying now, you know. just a slow death, what it is. the koch brothers are killing me and my family . i feel that georgia pacific and koch is responsible for my daughter's death. [slavant] this is inexcusable, and something's got to be done about it. [hightower] people in this country have experienced the impact of the koch brothers working their will, taking over our government and using that power against the common good. [chanting] we are the 99%! it shows they've been outed and it could change the game.

stop the koch brothers! this is a battle of wills. it's a battle between the koch brothers and people. people can beat money, but only if we decide to link up and organize. exposing the koch brothers with the possibility to rebuild an alternative society. once we expose koch brothers, that unlocks the door. we need to pay attention. to what the koch brothers are doing. we need to care. we're not going to be fooled anymore.