API hires organizer from Nature Conservancy

摘要

Washington-The American Petroleum Institute has hired a leading grass-roots organizer for an environmental group to coordinate its own grass-roots efforts.Deryck Spooner, who was the Nature Conservancy's campaign manager fot US climate change policy, is API's new senior director for "external mobilization," part of API President Jack Gerard's strategy to expand the organiza-tions's grass-roots activism.