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WASHINGTON, March 15, 2013 - President Obama’s proposed Energy Security Trust misses a key opportunity, API Group Director for Upstream & Industry Operations Erik Milito said today.

WASHINGTON, March 15, 2013 ─ API Executive Vice President Marty Durbin welcomed Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and U.S. Representative Lee Terry’s (R-Neb.) continued efforts to get the Keystone XL Pipeline built.

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 – New TV ads show Americans don’t support higher taxes on the oil and natural gas industry, API Executive Vice President Marty Durbin told reporters in a briefing this morning.

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 – At an EPA hearing in Ann Arbor, Michigan today, API Vice President of Regulatory and Economic Policy Kyle Isakower said that industry cannot blend more ethanol into gasoline and warned that severe gasoline supply problems could occur unless Congress repeals the unworkable renewable fuel standard (RFS).

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2013 – The nation’s new Cabinet appointees can help America’s energy revolution produce jobs, energy and economic growth by encouraging sensible energy policies, API President and CEO Jack Gerard told reporters this morning.

HARTFORD, Conn., March 5, 2013 – Seventy-five percent of Connecticut voters favor increased access to domestic sources of oil and natural gas, and only thirteen percent oppose it, according to a new poll released today. A full ninety percent said energy security and increased domestic production are very important.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 – API President and CEO Jack Gerard said that Gina McCarthy’s nomination as President Obama’s next EPA administrator comes at critical moment as America is poised to become a global energy superpower.

WASHINGTON, March 1, 2013 ─ American Petroleum Institute Executive Vice President Marty Durbin welcomed the State Department’s draft Environmental Impact Statement for the new Keystone XL Nebraska route.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 28, 2013 – Chris Zeigler, former chief of staff to Congressman Pat Tiberi, is the Ohio Petroleum Council’s (OPC) new executive director, the American Petroleum Institute (API) announced today.