{"id":523917,"date":"2010-04-12T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81846"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:07","slug":"9-william-kovacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523917","title":{"rendered":"9. William Kovacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81850\" title=\"kovacs\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/kovacs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"188\" \/>As the head of the Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Environment, Technology and  Regulatory Affairs Division, <a id=\"h2z_\" title=\"Kovacs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/press\/experts\/kovacs.htm\">Kovacs<\/a> wields considerable power as a lead voice for  the business community on environmental issues. And Kovacs makes his  voice heard. Last year, he called for a public hearing on the scientific  evidence for man-made climate change, <a id=\"vjhq\" title=\"saying\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/aug\/25\/nation\/na-climate-trial25\">saying<\/a>: &#8220;It would be evolution versus  creationism&#8230; It would be the science of climate change on trial.&#8221; <a id=\"hgd0\" title=\"He later rescinded the analogy\" href=\"http:\/\/energy.nationaljournal.com\/2009\/08\/should-epa-bow-to-chambers-dem.php#1349896\">He later rescinded the  analogy<\/a>, but said his basic point remained the same. But anyone  spearheading climate change-related regulations has the  business-community in mind. The question is, how much will they need to  bend to the Chambers&#8217; demands in order to receive wide public support?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81848\/8-jack-gerard\">Next: 8. Jack Gerard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the head of the Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Environment, Technology and Regulatory Affairs Division, Kovacs wields considerable power as a lead voice for the business community on environmental issues. And Kovacs makes his voice heard. Last year, he called for a public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, saying: &#8220;It would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}