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WASHINGTON, September 10, 2009 - API Chairman J. Larry Nichols told Congress on Thursday that the Obama administration’s $80 billion tax increase on America’s oil and natural gas industry is based on myths and would result in less oil and natural gas for consumers, higher energy costs and kill jobs at a time when the nation’s economy needs all the help it can get.

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 – API published a new edition of its guide for estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The updated API Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation Methodologies for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry (known as the Compendium) provides oil and natural gas companies with standardized methodologies for estimating carbon dioxide and other GHG emissions from all commonsources, such as combustion, venting, and fugitive, throughout the entire oil and natural gas value chain.  Although the methods are aimed at oil and natural gas operations, many have direct applicability to other sectors, especially those pertaining to GHG emissions from combustion sources.     

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 – A new poll of registered voters in Michigan found that 65 percent opposed Waxman-Markey type climate change legislation, once they heard about analyses warning of potential job cuts and higher consumer fuel costs. Only 19 percent of Michiganders supported it.

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 – A new poll of registered voters in Nebraska found that 64 percent opposed Waxman-Markey type climate change legislation, once they heard about analyses warning of potential job cuts and higher consumer fuel costs. Only 17 percent of Nebraskans supported it.

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 – A new poll of registered voters in Pennsylvania found that 67 percent opposed Waxman-Markey type climate change legislation, once they heard about analyses warning of potential job cuts and higher consumer fuel costs. Only 14 percent of Pennsylvanians supported it.

WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 – A new poll of registered voters in South Dakota found that 73 percent opposed Waxman-Markey type climate change legislation, once they heard about analyses warning of potential job cuts and higher consumer fuel costs. Only 13 percent of South Dakotans supported it.