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polluter #1
Jack Gerard
status"We don't want critics to know our game plan."
company American Petroleum Institute
position President and CEO
bio

Jack Gerard has served as President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute since November, 2008. Gerard was born and raised in Idaho, moving to George Washington University to obtain a B.A. in Political Science and a subsequent law degree. 

latest news
  • Killing the Climate, from API to Tom Donohue
  • PolluterWatch Challenges Big Oil for Scoffing at Renewables while Leaning on Government Welfare
  • Jack Gerard on Undersea Oil Blowouts
  • Oil, gas industries ripe for makeover
  • Astroturf Activism
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polluter #2
Tony Hayward
statusThere's no one who wants this thing over more than I do, I'd like my life back
company BP plc
position former CEO
bio

Tony Hayward got his start in oil at Aston University in Birmingham, England with a degree in geology, followed by a Ph.D. from Edinburgh. He joined BP in 1982 soon after graduating, and became a career BP employee. He held a series of roles in exploration and production, becoming a director of exploration and production in 1997.

latest news
  • Visit to Cat Island (47th Day of the BP Oil Spill)
  • How to Clean Up an Oil Spill - Scamwow!
  • Destruction of the Gulf
  • In the Sky, Down Below
  • Burning Off the Surface Oil
known associates
polluter #7
Tom Donohue
status“People seem to listen to you more when you've got a bagful of cash.”
company U.S. Chamber of Commerce
position President and CEO
bio

Tom Donohue has been the CEO of the influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce since 1997 after spending 13 years as president of the American Trucking Association, where he fundraised and lobbied against the Teamsters union.  Heading up the ATA built upon Donohue’s previous lobbying experience for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and work as a labor negotiator for the U.S. Postal Service.  Donohue was born in Brooklyn in 1938, earning a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University and a master’s degree in business administration from Adelphi University.

latest news
  • Donohue's climate lies: Bad for business, bad for America
  • Killing the Climate, from API to Tom Donohue
  • Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce Over Global Warming
  • Storm Over The Chamber
  • Show Him the Money
known associates
polluter #10
Rex Tillerson
statusOur industry remains massive and very much a long-term, capital-intensive business.
company ExxonMobil
position Chairman and CEO
bio

CEO ExxonMobil, 2006- present
President of Exxon Mobil Corporation, 2001-2006
Executive Vice President of ExxonMobil Development Company, 1999-2001

latest news
  • Killing the Climate, from API to Tom Donohue
  • Exxon Continues to Bankroll the Denial Machine
  • Exxon Chief Cautions Against Rapid Action to Cut Carbon Emissions
  • Exxon Goes Green?
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polluter #71
Bill Koch
statusLife ain't fair. You play according to the rules that are given to you.
company
position Owner, President
bio Alumnus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Executive, Koch Industries 1971-1981 President, Oxbow Corporation, 1983-Present Chairman, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound
latest news
  • Big boys profit on mom-and-pop's tax break
  • Koch's New Fight
  • Cape project's foes tap big spenders: Benefactors aid bid to stall turbines
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Blog Posts

Beck credits oil magnate Charles Koch during rant parodying An Inconvenient Truth
22 July, 2010

Oliver Willis, "Beck credits oil magnate Charles Koch during rant parodying An Inconvenient Truth," Media Matters for America

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006290072

  • Cape project's foes tap big spenders: Benefactors aid bid to stall turbines
    22 July, 2010
  • Koch's New Fight
    22 July, 2010
  • Big boys profit on mom-and-pop's tax break
    22 July, 2010
  • BP Chief Hayward 'Not Involved' in Gulf Well Decision
    22 July, 2010
  • BP chief executive Tony Hayward slammed over safety by US Congress
    22 July, 2010
  • BP boss Tony Hayward's sailing trip: one in a long line of CEO gaffes
    22 July, 2010
  • David Radcliffe on Frontline
    22 July, 2010
  • Massey Energy CEO is a really bad dude
    22 July, 2010
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The Yes Men Fix the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1 September 2010

In October, 2009, the Yes Men took the irresponsibility of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce into their own hands, holding a press conference on behalf of the Chamber to announce what changes in their position on climate change need to be taken in order to support effective solutions.  A Chamber employee crashed the conference before it concluded, putting the Chamber in a position where it had to clarify that it still was opposing legislation and other efforts designed to address global warming.
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Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers exposed in The New Yorker
24 August, 2010

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    18 February, 2010
  • Polluters Charles and David Koch don't deny it: they fund front groups to deny climate science
    17 February, 2010

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