{"id":523963,"date":"2010-04-12T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81848"},"modified":"2010-04-12T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:00:33","slug":"8-jack-gerard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523963","title":{"rendered":"8. Jack Gerard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81854\" title=\"gerard\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/gerard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"145\" \/>As President and CEO of the <a id=\"an4b\" title=\"American Petroleum Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.api.org\/\">American Petroleum Institute<\/a>, <a id=\"j-.5\" title=\"Gerard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.api.org\/aboutapi\/apipresident\/\">Gerard<\/a> is one of the biggest mouthpieces for the oil  and gas industries in the climate change debate. API has in the past  funded multiple ad campaigns to fight energy regulation and other  issues. Currently, API is running <a id=\"i-2u\" title=\"an ad campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/www.api.org\/aboutapi\/ads\/upload\/API_Lucas_TV_Ad.wmv\">an ad campaign<\/a> that argues that the  president&#8217;s budget will create $80 billion in energy taxes. API counts  400 companies as members, which is one reason why Kerry, Graham and  Lieberman <a id=\"k_l7\" title=\"In March, Gerard was one of the industry figures who  met to discuss the legislation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.api.org\/Newsroom\/gerard-climate-mtg.cfm\">met with Gerard in March<\/a> to discuss  the legislation. Though the final bill has yet to be published, it&#8217;s is  widely expected to be more friendly to oil and gas than past proposals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/81853\/7-rick-boucher\">Next: 7. Rick Boucher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, Gerard is one of the biggest mouthpieces for the oil and gas industries in the climate change debate. API has in the past funded multiple ad campaigns to fight energy regulation and other issues. Currently, API is running an ad campaign that argues that the president&#8217;s [&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-523963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523963","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=523963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}