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WASHINGTON, August 11, 2011 – The American Petroleum Institute (API), along with more than 170 businesses and business groups that together employ millions of American workers, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) voluntary reconsideration of new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone.

WASHINGTON, July 29, 2011 – A new study says that upcoming EPA requirements could raise the cost of manufacturing gasoline, lead to the closing of domestic refineries, and force the U.S. to double its gasoline imports – while causing increased carbon dioxide emissions.

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011—Today API welcomed passage of bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Gene Green (D-Tex.) that would reduce uncertainty in the Environmental Protection Agency’s air permitting process for exploration drilling in all regions of the Outer Continental Shelf except for the western and central Gulf of Mexico, which are permitted through the Department of the Interior:

WASHINGTON, June 2, 2011 –The American Petroleum Institute today welcomed action by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to approve The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act with bipartisan support which would provide an orderly and consistent permitting process for oil and gas exploration in the nation’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 – Citing the potential for major damage to the nation’s economy, the American Petroleum Institute today expressed frustration that the Environmental Protection Agency has not gone far enough to ease the burden of unreasonable regulations on American businesses.

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2011 – Today API awarded its 2010 Distinguished Award for Outstanding Safety and Environmental Performance to Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. This is API’s highest safety and environmental performance award for pipeline operators. Harry Pefanis, President and COO of Plains All American Pipeline and Chair of API’s Pipeline Subcommittee, presented the award to Bob O’Hair, Executive Vice President of Operations and Compliance Excellence for Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. at API’s 62nd annual Pipeline Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2011 – API praised the leadership of Chairman Upton and other members of Congress from both parties who voted to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Marty Durbin, API executive vice president, called today’s action an important step toward stopping the EPA’s regulations and called on the president not to ignore this bipartisan vote:

WASHINGTON, March 3, 2011 – Marty Durbin, API executive vice president, applauded the bipartisan Energy Tax Prevention Act to be introduced by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), which would prevent EPA actions that could raise energy prices on American consumers and stifle the fragile economic recovery:

WASHINGTON, February 17, 2011 — The U.S. oil and natural gas industry has completed the final requirement necessary to return to production in the Gulf, according to the American Petroleum Institute, with today’s news that the industry-led Marine Well Containment Company had completed testing.

WASHINGTON, DC, January 20, 2011 - The American Petroleum Institute (API), the national trade association representing all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry, and Antea Group, an international engineering and environmental consulting firm, have formed an exclusive teaming agreement to provide a web-based Storage Tank Operator Training program that meets both federal and state operator training requirements as mandated by the Federal Underground Storage Tank Compliance Act of 2005.