Oil Lobbyist Confident Friendly Senate Will Block Climate Legislation

Submitted by Kurt Walters on Feb 21, 2013

Despite an increased focus on climate change from President Obama, public pressure such as the largest climate rally in U.S. history last weekend, and a new piece of legislation to regulate carbon emissions introduced by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard is confident that the bill will never even reach the floor of the Senate.

• American Petroleum Institute
• Big Oil
• climate
• Jack Gerard