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WASHINGTON, September 2, 2009 - As many as 73,400 jobs would be wiped out in Michigan if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Michigan household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $910 a year.

WASHINGTON, September 2, 2009 - As many as 90,600 jobs would be wiped out in Pennsylvania if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Pennsylvania household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $720 a year.

WASHINGTON, September 1, 2009 - As many as 72,000 jobs would be wiped out in Virginia if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Virginia household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,070 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2009 – As many as 13,000 jobs would be wiped out in Alaska if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Alaska household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $3,890 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2009 – The American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement on this week’s 150th anniversary of the first successful oil well drilled in the in the United States. (Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the well in Titusville, Pennsylvania and struck oil August 27, 1859.):

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2009. – As many as 98,700 jobs would be wiped out in Illinois if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Illinois household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $870 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 28, 2009 – As many as 45,700 jobs would be wiped out in South Carolina if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average South Carolina household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,020 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 26, 2009 - As many as 184,100 jobs would be wiped out in Florida if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Florida household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,100 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 26, 2009 - As many as 52,600 jobs would be wiped out in Missouri if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Missouri household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $950 a year.

WASHINGTON, August 26, 2009 - As many as 9,300 jobs would be wiped out in North Dakota if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average North Dakota household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,880 a year.