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Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley Responds to Governor Hickenlooper’s Executive Order on Orphaned Wells
DENVER, July 18, 2018 – Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley issued the following statement today in response to Governor John Hickenlooper’s Executive Order
EPA should protect consumers from broken ethanol mandate, API testifies at RFS public hearing
Ypsilanti, Mich., July 18, 2018 – Today the American Petroleum Institute said until Congress fixes the broken Renewable Fuel Standard, the Environmental Protection Agency must protect consumers from higher ethanol blended fuels that threaten vehicle engines and fuel systems. Patrick Kelly, Senior Fuels Policy Advisor delivered industry’s views during EPA’s public hearing in Ypsilanti, Michigan on the 2019 proposed biofuel obligations.
Steel tariff exclusion rulings harm American consumers by denying critical needs of the natural gas and oil industry
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2018 – API believes the Department of Commerce’s ruling to deny product exclusions from Section 232 tariffs on imported steel could have negative consequences for America’s natural gas and oil industry and consumers that depend on affordable energy. Yesterday’s decision denies a product exclusion for a U.S. natural gas and oil company despite a lack of domestic capacity to manufacture the product to the company’s exact specification.
