{"id":3965,"date":"2020-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/3965\/meet-the-oil-executives-visiting-the-white-house-to-discuss-relief-for-the-industry-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:28:04","slug":"meet-the-oil-executives-visiting-the-white-house-to-discuss-relief-for-the-industry-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/meet-the-oil-executives-visiting-the-white-house-to-discuss-relief-for-the-industry-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Oil Executives Visiting the White House to Discuss \u2018Relief\u2019 for the Industry With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>Between salaries, bonuses, stock options, and other compensation, these seven executives earned at least a combined $100 million in 2018 alone. But they\u2019re in Washington to ask for relief after oil prices plummeted to around $20 per barrel this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tomorrow, executives from at least seven US oil companies will meet with Donald Trump at the White House to discuss relief for the oil industry. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the meeting will include ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth, Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub, and former Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm. CNBC has reported that the meeting will also include Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren, Phillips66 CEO Greg Garland (who is also chairman of the American Petroleum Institute), and Devon Energy CEO David Hager.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between salaries, bonuses, stock options, and other compensation, these executives earned at least a combined $100 million in 2018 alone. But they\u2019re in Washington to ask for relief after oil prices plummeted to around $20 per barrel this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darren Woods has been the CEO of ExxonMobil since January 2017, when previous CEO Rex Tillerson left to become Trump\u2019s first Secretary of State. ExxonMobil is one of the largest publicly traded oil companies in the world and one of the greatest carbon polluters in history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More about Darren Woods and ExxonMobil:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woods\u2019 total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/XOM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$18.7 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 110 times the median employee pay at ExxonMobil.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woods <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=Darren+Woods&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personally contributed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $10,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and $35,550 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ExxonMobil ranks as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fourth-most polluting company in history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, responsible for 41.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (3.09 percent of global emissions) between 1965 and 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$9.8 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in lobbying expenditures in 2019, second only to Koch Industries among oil and gas companies. But that doesn\u2019t include millions directed through industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute (API) or American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), which was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2019\/07\/09\/governors-afpm-koch-oil-trump-clean-car-rollbacks\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">instrumental<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Trump\u2019s proposed rollback of fuel efficiency standards announced earlier this week. Woods previously served as the chairman of API, and remains a board member.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Darren Woods on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/115251-Darren_W_Woods#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and about ExxonMobil on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/exxonmobil\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PolluterWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Chevron CEO Mike Wirth<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Wirth has served as CEO and chairman of the board for Chevron since February 2018. Under his watch, Chevron has led the way in lobbying the Trump administration to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2019\/03\/22\/paris-oil-exxon-chevron-bp-total-shell-billion-climate-lobbying-advertising-influencemap\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">roll back methane regulations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while publicly positioning itself as a supporter of the Paris climate agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More about Mike Wirth and Chevron:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wirth\u2019s total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/CVX\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$20.6 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 152 times the median employee pay at Chevron.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wirth has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=michael+wirth&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personally contributed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $25,500 to the NRSC so far in 2020, on top of $33,900 in 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chevron ranks as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/09\/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second-most polluting company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in history, responsible for 43.35 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (3.2 percent of global emissions) between 1965 and 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$9.2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> million in lobbying expenditures in 2019, not including millions of dollars routed through industry groups like API. Last week, the EPA announced it would indefinitely suspend enforcement of environmental health monitoring after receiving a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6819817-API-Letter-to-EPA-Seeking-Oil-Industry.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from API\u2019s Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs Frank Macchiarola.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Mike Wirth on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/58514-Michael_K_Wirth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and about Chevron on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/chevron\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PolluterWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vicki Hollub has been the president and CEO of Occidental Petroleum since April 2016. During her tenure, Occidental acquired Anadarko Petroleum for $38 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More about Vicki Hollub and Occidental:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hollub\u2019s total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/OXY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$14.1 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 114 times the median employee pay at Occidental.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hollub <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=vicki+hollub&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personally contributed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $12,300 to the NRCC in 2018, as well as $2,700 each to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and former Senator Heidi Heitcamp (D-ND).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Occidental ranks as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climateaccountability.org\/pdf\/SumRankingTo2017.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forty-fourth-most polluting company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in history, responsible for 5.89 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions through 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$8.7 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in lobbying expenditures in 2019, not including millions routed through industry groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On March 18, 2020, Moody\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/moodys-downgrades-occidental-petroleums-debt-022024901.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">downgraded Occidental\u2019s debt rating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to \u201cjunk\u201d status.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Vicki Hollub on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/189673-Vicki_A_Hollub\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Former Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harold Hamm founded Continental Resources in 1967 and served as CEO until stepping down in December 2019. He is credited with spearheading the fracking expansion in the Bakken shale formation. The idea of a bailout for fossil fuel companies \u2014 which Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have signaled they are open to \u2014 reportedly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/03\/10\/trump-oil-bailout\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">began with Hamm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More about Harold Hamm and Continental:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hamms are ranked as the fifty-fifth-wealthiest family in the United States, with a net worth of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes-400\/#5b9c95917e2f\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$8.8 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as of October 2019. With the recent shocks to the stock market, Hamm\u2019s net worth may have decreased as much as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/harold-hamm\/#4339365559b1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$2.3 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He remains the richest person <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/laurengensler\/2018\/05\/21\/meet-the-richest-person-in-every-state-2018\/#69bca31b5a8f\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the state of Oklahoma<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamm\u2019s total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/CLR\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$13.3 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 103 times the median employee pay at Continental.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamm <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=harold+hamm&amp;order=desc&amp;page=1&amp;sort=D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personally contributed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $49,800 to the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2019, as well as $14,400 to the NRCC and thousands more to multiple Republican campaigns.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamm served as an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/trump-serves-a-slice-of-hard-boiled-hamm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">energy policy advisor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the Trump campaign beginning in the Republican primary in 2016 through the general election. He was also named to Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/org\/255087-Trump_Economic_Advisory_Council?relationships=staff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">economic advisory council<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continental donated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/19042017\/fossil-fuels-oil-coal-gas-exxon-chevron-bp-donald-trump-inauguration-donations\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$100,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Trump\u2019s inauguration and has donated nearly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=continental+resources\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$600,000 so far<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to PACs supporting Trump\u2019s reelection.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Harold Hamm on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/12790-Harold_G_Hamm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/harold-hamm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DeSmog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Devon Energy CEO David Hager<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Hager has served as president and CEO of Devon Energy since August 2015. Hager has also been on the board of the API since 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hager\u2019s total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/DVN\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$12.5 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 79 times the median employee pay at Devon Energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devon Energy reported $720,000 in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lobbying expenditures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2019, but the majority of its lobbying efforts are routed through industry groups like API and AFPM.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company made a $750,000 contribution to the Senate Leadership Fund and a $500,000 contribution Congressional Leadership Fund in 2016 to preserve Republican majorities in the House and Senate.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devon Energy ranks as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climateaccountability.org\/pdf\/SumRankingTo2017.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sixty-fifth-most polluting company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of all time, responsible for 2.47 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent through 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelcy Warren co-founded Energy Transfer in 1995 and currently serves as CEO and chairman of the board. The company is responsible for the development of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warren\u2019s personal net was valued at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes-400\/#3d2192f97e2f\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$4.3 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as of October 2019, making him the 159th-richest person in the United States. His wealth has likely decreased due to recent market downturns, possibly to as low as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/kelcy-warren\/#5e81150e237d\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$2.3 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officially, Warren only earned <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.salary.com\/Kelcy-L-Warren-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-ENERGY-TRANSFER-LP.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$6,138<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in salary in 2018, but Energy Transfer is structured as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/investing\/benefits-master-limited-partnerships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">master limited partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such that Warren (as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/public-accountability.org\/report\/the-power-behind-the-pipelines-bayou-bridge-pipeline\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">key shareholder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) receives a share of the company\u2019s income. In 2016, it was estimated that Warren would receive <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-energy-mlp\/pipe-dreams-still-alive-for-selected-few-in-u-s-energy-rout-idUSKCN0XT09D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">around $200 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in compensation that year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, Warren personally donated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-trump-dakota-access\/top-executive-behind-dakota-access-has-donated-more-than-100000-to-trump-idUSKCN12Q2P2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$100,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign and later contributed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/329587-energy-companies-donate-millions-to-trumps-inauguration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$250,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energy Transfer reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$760,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in lobbying expenditures in 2019, not including lobbying efforts routed through industry groups.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 2002 and 2017, Energy Transfer, Sunoco, and their subsidiaries reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/reports\/oil-and-water\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">527 hazardous liquids pipeline incidents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 approximately one incident from existing facilities every 11 days. Those incidents released a total of 3.6 million gallons (about five-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools) of hazardous liquids \u2014 including 2.8 million gallons of crude oil \u2014 and caused $115 million in property damage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warren\u2019s past <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/reports\/too-far-too-often\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">statements about peaceful protest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> demonstrate his attitude regarding dissent. He has referred to social media posts about banks that fund pipelines as \u201cterrorism\u201d and said on a panel discussion that protesters should be \u201cremoved from the gene pool.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Kelcy Warren on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/5729-Kelcy_L_Warren\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/kelcy-warren\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PolluterWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Phillips66 CEO Greg Garland<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg Garland has served as chairman and CEO of Phillips66 since April 2012. Earlier this year, he was named chairman of the American Petroleum Institute (API).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garland\u2019s total compensation in 2018 (which includes salary, bonuses, stock options, and more) was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\/PSX\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$19.3 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is 98 times the median employee pay at Phillips66.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garland took over as chairman of API in January 2020. The group has actively pushed its deregulatory agenda to the Trump administration throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/6819817-API-Letter-to-EPA-Seeking-Oil-Industry.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">requesting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the EPA suspend enforcement of environmental standards for pipeline operators and refiners. The EPA <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/news\/epa-indefinitely-suspends-environmental-enforcement-at-the-oil-industrys-request\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">granted the request<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on March 26, 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 2008 and 2017, API spent more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climateinvestigations.org\/trade-association-pr-spending\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$663 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on PR and advertising, which was six times as much as all major renewable energy trade associations combined.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phillips66 reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$3.5 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in lobbying expenditures in 2019, not including spending routed through industry groups like API.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about Greg Garland on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/person\/119440-Greg_C_Garland\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LittleSis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and about API on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/american-petroleum-institute\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DeSmog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/american-petroleum-institute\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PolluterWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Sources:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For information on executive compensation, see AFL-CIO\u2019s Paywatch: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/aflcio.org\/paywatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For information on campaign contributions, see Open Secrets Donor Lookup: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For information on oil and gas industry lobbying trends, see Open Secrets industry lobbying profiles: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/industries\/summary?cycle=2019&amp;id=E01<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For information on historical emissions from state and investor-owned oil and gas companies, see the Climate Accountability Institute: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/climateaccountability.org\/carbonmajors.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/climateaccountability.org\/carbonmajors.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further information on corporate executives can be found at Little Sis (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesis.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">littlesis.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and PolluterWatch (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/polluterwatch.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">polluterwatch.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: While the meeting itself was confirmed by the American Petroleum Institute and sources close to the matter, the specific participants have not yet been named by the White House. 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