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WASHINGTON – As many as 16,400 jobs would be wiped out in Nebraska if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average Nebraska household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,220 a year.

WASHINGTON, September 4, 2009 – As many as 8,800 jobs would be wiped out in South Dakota if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows. The average South Dakota household would see its purchasing power drop by as much as $1,050 a year.

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 2, 2009 - A new poll of registered voters in Alaska found that 75 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 Alaskans supported it.

WASHINGTON, September 2, 2009 - A new poll of registered voters in Minnesota found that 63 percent opposed Waxman-Markey type climate change legislation, once they heard about analyses warning of potential job cuts and higher consumer fuel costs. Only 21 percent of Minnesotans supported it.

WASHINGTON, September 2, 2009 - A new poll of registered voters in South Carolina 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 17 percent of South Carolinians supported it.

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.):