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TRENTON, N.J., August 25, 2011—James Benton, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Petroleum Council, issued the following statement on Governor Chris Christie's announcement regarding hydraulic fracturing:

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2011 – API's Howard Feldman, director of regulatory and scientific affairs, welcomed the White House plans to eliminate unnecessary regulations that are costing American jobs and harming our economy. He called on the president to add the proposed new EPA ozone rule, greenhouse gas regulations, and upcoming "Tier 3" fuel standards to the top of the list.

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2011 – Howard Feldman, API director of regulatory and scientific affairs, gave a press briefing to reporter calling on EPA to reconsider its discretionary, out of cycle new ozone NAAQS proposal.

WASHINGTON, August 19, 2011 — Erik Milito, group director of upstream and industry operations at API responded to the announcement that BOEMRE will hold the first oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since March 2010:

WASHINGTON, August 11, 2011 – API President and CEO Jack Gerard welcomed the shale gas subcommittee’s acknowledgement of the economic and energy security benefits of natural gas development, but said the specific recommendations were disappointing and confusing.

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.

API: Permit process in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea shows need for greater efficiency WASHINGTON, August 4, 2011— API welcomed the news that Shell has finally received conditional approval from BOEMRE for its revised Exploration Plan for the company’s planned 2012 and 2013 drilling programs in the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf. Richard Ranger, a senior policy advisor at API, cautions that this is only a small step in what has been a multi-year permitting process:

HARRISBURG, August 1, 2011—Changing the city’s charter to ban an important source of energy, and limit possible economic growth and new jobs is the wrong direction for the Pittsburgh City Council, according to the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2011 – EPA has exaggerated the benefits of its proposed new ozone standards, according to a new study conducted by NERA Economic Consulting for API. EPA’s calculation of the health benefits of the standards in its regulatory impact analysis in 2010 are based on faulty assumptions, according to API Director of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Howard Feldman.

WASHINGTON JULY 26, 2011 ─ API reiterated its support of the bipartisan North American-Made Energy Act to speed up the permitting process for the Keystone XL Pipeline to transport Canadian oil to the U.S. Gulf coast.