American Petroleum Institute

Obama Administration Must Say No to Industry Loopholes in Natural Gas Fracking Standards

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Benzene, Natural Gas, Cancer, Hydraulic Fracturing, Air Pollution, Fracking, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Colorado, Green News

Now is the time to hold energy companies accountable for the pollution they create. For far too long, they have run roughshod over the health and well being of American communities and ordinary people are paying the price.

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U.S. States With The Most Oil

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Unemployment Rates, Census Bureau, Oil Production, Gas Industry, U.S. Energy Information Administration, American Petroleum Institute, Oil, Oil Reserves, The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: As gas prices reach record highs across many parts of the country, Americans have been blaming oil companies. But as much as they ...

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Scott Brown Donates To Charity Under 'People's Pledge' Discouraging Third-Party Ads

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Video, Election 2012 Blog, 2012 Election, American Petroleum Institute, Elections 2012, People's Pledge, Politics News

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) gave $34,545 to the Autism Consortium in Boston as part of a deal between him and his presumed rival Harvard Law Professor ...

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Previously Secret Donations Revealed

Bloomberg | By Jonathan D. Salant | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Donor Disclosure, Secret Money, Merck, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, American Petroleum Institute, Super PACs, Elections 2012, Chevron, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Some secret donors who gave money to groups that paid for millions of dollars in attack ads during the 2010 midterm elections are becoming public....

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The Warm War

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Berlin Wall, David Axelrod, Barack Obama, American Petroleum Institute, Citizens Climate Lobby, Steve Valk, Sheldon Whitehouse, Obama Climate Change, Green News

By giving a rousing "State of the Climate Address," Obama would draw a line in the sand between reason and recklessness, a line between concerned mothers and the Koch brothers.

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Why Oil Exporting Countries Need Transparency

Raymond Baker | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Corruption, Transparency, Politics News, Dodd-Frank, American Petroleum Institute, Slidepollajax, Oil, Extractive-Industry, Securities and Exchange Commission, Impact, World News, Slidefreestyle, World News

We've compiled a slideshow of the top 10 oil exporting countries and listed the cost that corruption and financial opacity has on each country's economy.

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Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Video, Energy Industry, Carbon Tax, Auction 2012, Smog, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Energy Industry Lobbying, Energy Industry Campaign Spending, Coal, Greenpeace, Ozone, Oil and Gas Lobby, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When George W. Bush overruled scientists at t...

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Trimming Astroturf From the American Petroleum Institute's 'Vote 4 Energy' Ad

Philip Radford | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Bp, Energy Citizens, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Shell, Greenpeace, Executives, Tar Sands, Commercial, Big Oil, Exxonmobil, Chevron, Astroturf, Jack Gerard, Green News

Americans are clearly too smart to be faked out by Big Oil's phony grass roots strategies. Vote 4 yourself, not oil executives.

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Energy Voters as a Political Power

Peter Gardett | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Oil, Energy, Natural Gas, Energy Industry, 2012 Election, Keystone XL Pipeline, American Petroleum Institute, Identity Politics, Api, I Vote for Energy, Business News

Americans are accustomed to identity politics; can their identity as energy workers, producers and consumers outweigh other political identities?

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API Ad Spoof: 'I Vote For Spilling'

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Energy, Energy Lobby, Video, Oil Industry, I Vote 4 Energy Video, 2012 Election, American Petroleum Institute, Vote 4 Energy, Api, Natural Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute Vote 4 Energy, Green News

Will you vote 4 energy? A new Greenpeace video spoof suggests citizens should think twice about the latest ad campaign from the American Petroleum Ins...

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API's Next Sham Campaign

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Energy Security, Energy, American Petroleum Institute, Polling, Health, Api, Vote 4 Energy, Jack Gerard, Green News

Today the American Petroleum Institute launched its latest attack on our great nation with their "Vote 4 Energy" or "I vote" campaign.

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Oil Industry Chief: Rejecting Pipeline Would Be 'Huge Mistake' For Obama

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Obama Keystone Pipeline, Video, American Petroleum Institute, Keystone XL Pipeline, Jack Gerard Obama Pipeline, Keystone-Pipeline, Keystone Pipeline Decision, Keystone Xl Decision, Keystone XL, Jack Gerard American Petroleum Institute, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The oil industry's top lobbyist warned the Obama administration Wednesday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline or face "huge po...

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TRAIN Wreck: Greens Urge Senate To Derail House Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute, Greenhouse Gases, Epa, Mercury, Air Pollution, Train-Act, Tea Party, Clean Air Act, Ozone, Green News

The U.S. House of Representatives forwarded a bill on Friday that environmental leaders warn would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's abi...

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Retreat On Ozone Legislation Leaves Standard Based on 14-Year-Old Science

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Obama Environment, Obama Administration Environment, Union of Concerned Scientists, Unemployment, Smog, Ozone Levels, Nrdc, American Petroleum Institute, Epa, Jobs, Ozone Standards, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Barack Obama, Ozone, Green News

"Ridiculous." "Illegal." "Dangerous." President Barack Obama's decision to shelve a proposed tightening of ozone standards has prompted a deluge of an...

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Pawlenty Hounded By Issue Advocates Working For His Own Political Consultants

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Chuck Larson, Michele Bachmann, Big Oil, Kent Sorensen, American Petroleum Institute, Elections 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, Tim Pawlenty, Ethanol, Iowa Energy Forum, Iowa Straw Poll, Politics News

WASHINGTON – On July 21, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was followed around Iowa to multiple campaign stops by three young women wea...

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Big Oil's Gain is Our Pain

Alan Fein | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Oil Profits, Gas Prices, Crude Oil Prices, Big Oil, American Petroleum Institute, Oil Companies, Business News

American corporations, including Big Oil, don't need more tax breaks to "create jobs." It's time we call Big Oil and the Republican Tea Party on their nonsense.

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Denial for Hire: Willie Soon's Career Fueled by Big Oil, Coal and Koch Money

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Exxonmobil, Koch Industries, Koch Brothers, Willie Soon Climate Change, Heartland Institute, American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil, Green News

Willie Soon, the notorious climate denier who has made a career out of attacking the IPCC and climate scientists, has received over $1 million in funding from Big Oil and coal industry sponsors over the past decade, according to a new report from Greenpeace.

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GOP Over A Barrel: Obama Seeks Political Wedge As Oil Profits Soar

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas Subsidies, Gas Prices, Oil Industry, John Boehner, American Petroleum Institute, Oil Subsidies, President Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Both political parties are eager to harness the public’s growing, boiling rage over high gas prices. So far, Republicans must be pl...

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Senators Demand SEC Explain Delay Of Anti-Corruption Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Corruption, Politics News, Natural Resources, Oil Industry, Extraction, Dodd-Frank, Ben Cardin, American Petroleum Institute, Securities and Exchange Commission, Richard Lugar, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The bipartisan Senate sponsors of an anti-corruption measure are demanding to know why the Securities and Exchange Commission has unilat...

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SEC Stalls On Anti-Corruption Regulation Opposed By Big Oil

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Corruption, Natural Resources, Oil Industry, Extraction, Dodd-Frank, American Petroleum Institute, Securities and Exchange Commission, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Oil and mining interests are fighting back against an anti-corruption measure included in last summer's financial reform package that wa...

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Freshman Republican Breaks Rank On Oil Subsidies

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Energy, Politics News, Natural Gas, Oil Lobby, Oil Industry, Tax Breaks, Republican Party, American Petroleum Institute, Oil Subsidies, Politics News

A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin has broken rank with his GOP colleagues by calling on lawmakers to re-evaulate the multi-billion-doll...

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How The Oil Lobby Greases Washington's Wheels

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Energy, Natural Gas, Oil Lobby, Oil Industry, Tax Breaks, American Petroleum Institute, Lobbyists, Campaign Finance, Politics News

Clout in Washington isn't about winning legislative battles -- it's about making sure that they never happen at all. The oil and gas industry has that...

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Obama Echoes The American Petroleum Institute Mantra

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.31.2011

The transfer of billions upon billions of dollars from American and world consumers to oil interests both domestic and foreign continues on and will continue in spite of the programs enunciated by the president.

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Obama Administration Announces Massive Coal-Mining Expansion

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Earth Guardians, Politics, Democratic Primary, Powder River Basin, Nuclear Power, Environmental Movement, Fukushima, Oil, American Petroleum Institute, Bernie Sanders, Ken Salazar, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News

Despite his administration's rhetorical embrace of clean energy, when push comes to shove, Obama is effectively using modest wind and solar investments as cover for a broader embrace of dirty fuels.

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There Goes the Fig Leaf

Carl Pope | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Oil, Oil Subsidies, Campaign Contributions, American Petroleum Institute, Green News

Martin Durbin, the American Petroleum Institute's executive vice president for government affairs, described his group's new strategy this way: "Our mission is trying to influence the policy debate."

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