Wonk Room reports that Wichi­ta-based Koch Indus­tries is suing. Some­one sent out a spoof press release in Koch’s name, claim­ing they were going to stop fund­ing cli­mate change denial groups, and now:

Pol­lu­tion machine Koch Indus­tries is tak­ing to court to defend its rep­u­ta­tion as a cesspool of glob­al warm­ing denial. The right-wing car­bon indus­try giant, owned by Tea Par­ty bil­lion­aires David and Charles Koch, has filed a law­suit in Utah to pun­ish anony­mous pranksters who claimed on the company’s behalf that it was dis­con­tin­u­ing fund­ing to cli­mate denial front groups. Accord­ing to Koch’s lawyers, as a result of the rumor that the com­pa­ny believes in cli­mate sci­ence, its “busi­ness and rep­u­ta­tion were harmed”

That argu­ment might fly in Utah, but the rest of the world knows they’d gain busi­ness by cut­ting ties to glob­al warm­ing denial groups “whose posi­tions on cli­mate change,” in the words of the prank press release, “could jeop­ar­dize America’s con­tin­ued glob­al com­pet­i­tive­ness in the ener­gy and chem­i­cal sec­tors and Koch Indus­tries’ abil­i­ty to pro­vide high-qual­i­ty prod­ucts and ser­vices to the Amer­i­can people.”