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Washington, D.C., December 15, 2011 – Seventy-eight percent of Nevada voters favor more development of U.S. oil and natural gas resources, and similar numbers believe more oil and natural gas development would provide major benefits to the nation, including more U.S. jobs, according to a new poll released today.

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2011— Erik Milito, API's group director of upstream and industry operations, today issued a statement on the federal government's lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico, the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Western Gulf since August 2009

WASHINGTON, December 6, 2011— In testimony before the Interior Department today, API called on the department to move quickly to finalize the 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Leasing Program and draft a more robust plan that would get our energy and economic future back on track.

WASHINGTON, December 6, 2011—American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard told the 20th World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday that the industry needs to get back to full production in the Gulf of Mexico.

DANSVILLE, NY, November 16, 2011 – In a statement prepared for today's New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) hearing, API Manager of External Mobilization Jon Shore said the "American public and all New Yorkers deserve an accurate and complete analysis of the environmental impacts of high volume hydrofracturing."

WASHINGTON, November 15, 2011 - API Upstream and Industry Operations Group Director Erik Milito said in a briefing today that the Department of the Interior's newly proposed offshore five-year plan for oil and natural gas development would greatly limit where such development can occur over the next five years.

WASHINGTON, November 8, 2011—BOEM's announcement of a proposed 2012-2017 five-year Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program and the associated Draft Environmental Impact Statement was welcomed by API Group Director of Upstream and Industry Operations Erik Milito.

WASHINGTON, October 11, 2011 – API Executive Vice President Marty Durbin said the interim report by the president's jobs council overlooks potential jobs in the oil and natural gas industry, one of the country's strongest job creators.

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2011—API today announced the addition of marketing and communications firm Fleishman-Hillard to the public issues campaign supporting oil and natural gas development: