Top Polluters

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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
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  • 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
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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 is the CEO of U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  Before taking the helm of the Chamber in 1997, Donahue spent 13 years as president of the American Trucking Association, where he fundraised and lobbied against the Teamsters union.  Prior to the ATA, Donohue lobbied for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and worked as a labor negotiator for the U.S. Postal Service. 

latest news
  • Donohue's climate lies: Bad for business, bad for America
  • Killing the Climate, from API to Tom Donohue
  • Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic Over Supreme Court's Corporate Giveaway of Our Democracy
  • Apple Quits Chamber of Commerce Over Global Warming
  • Storm Over The Chamber
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polluter #8
Stephen Miller
status"Many scientists maintain that greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants are not contributing significantly to overall warming trends."
company American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
position President and CEO
bio

As the CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Stephen Miller is a politically influential face of the coal industry.  Miller is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the UK School of Law.

latest news
  • Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic Over Supreme Court's Corporate Giveaway of Our Democracy
  • The Dirt on Clean Coal
  • The Yes Men Fix the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • Kiss My Ash: How King Coal’s Lobbyists Are Undermining Coal Ash Regulation
  • Coal Ash: Blatantly and Egregiously Hazardous
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polluter #10
Rex Tillerson
status“The dominant energy source in the future will continue to be oil and natural gas.”
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
  • Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic Over Supreme Court's Corporate Giveaway of Our Democracy
  • 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 #75
Charles Koch
status"If somebody's evil, the smarter they are, the more damage they're going to do."
company Koch Industries
position CEO and Chairman
bio

Charles G. Koch, born in 1935, is the CEO and Chairman of Koch Industries.  Koch is also on the Board of Directors for Koch Industries subsidiaries Georgia-Pacific and Invista.

latest news
  • Oil Lobbyists Ecstatic Over Supreme Court's Corporate Giveaway of Our Democracy
  • Big boys profit on mom-and-pop's tax break
  • Beck credits oil magnate Charles Koch during rant parodying An Inconvenient Truth
  • Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers exposed in The New Yorker
  • Valero, Koch Industries fund fight against California clean energy and climate legislation
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