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Energy magnate David Koch left his spot on a National Cancer Institute (NCI) advisory board last month, but green advocates are taking aim at the conservative mega-donor nonetheless by calling for a review of federal ethics policies that allowed him to sit on the panel despite a potential conflict of interest.
Koch Industries Inc., the privately held company run by Koch and his brother Charles, burst onto the political scene this year thanks to multimillion-dollar contributions the duo steered to right-leaning groups that help fuel the tea party movement. But David Koch’s membership on the National Cancer Advisory Board, which advises NCI, became a flashpoint of its own after The New Yorker magazine last month reported that a Koch-owned company lobbied against designating formaldehyde as a known human carcinogen while he sat on the panel.
via Koch Leaves Federal Cancer Panel as Groups Urge Ethics Probe – NYTimes.com.
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I have read this news.David James Koch is an Australian television personality.He currently presents Seven Network’s Sunrise morning program each weekday,as co-host with Melissa Doyle.The ethics policies that allowed him to sit on the panel despite a potential conflict of interest.