Letters and Comments
Joint Trades Letter to Pelosi and McCarthy Opposing the Inflation Reduction Act
Thursday, August 11, 2022
API joined with nearly 60 other trade groups in sending a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy outlining the natural gas and oil industry's opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as passed by the Senate.
Joint Industry Letter on Permian Ozone NAAQS Redesignation
Thursday, July 21, 2022
API joined six other energy trade associations to send a letter to OMB Director Shalanda Young and OIRA Acting Administrator Dominic Mancini requesting that pending EPA action to designate the Permian Basin as a non attainment area be classified as a significant regulatory action.
API Letter to President Joe Biden
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Letter from API President and CEO Mike Sommers to President Joe Biden urging the administration to act immediately to implement 10 policies that support energy investment, create new access and keep government policies from unnecessarily restricting energy growth.
API Letter on Proposed NOPEC Legislation
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Letter from API President and CEO Mike Sommers to U.S. Sens. Richard Durbin and Chuck Grassley, chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, outlining the API's opposition to the proposed No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Acts of 2022.
API Comments on EPA’s Proposed Methane Rule
Monday, January 31, 2022
API comments on the EPA’s proposed “Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review” (86 FR 63110, November 15, 2021).
Methane Fee Opposition Letter
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
The American Petroleum Institute (API) and 130 energy, manufacturing, business and labor trade organizations across the natural gas and oil supply chain issued a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works opposing the Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021.
API Comments on OMB's Interim TSD for the Social Cost of GHGs
Monday, June 21, 2021
API comments in response to the Office of Management and Budget’s Notice of Availability and Request for Comments on the “Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates Under Executive Order 13990.
API Letter to EPA on 2021-2022 RVO NPRM
Monday, June 21, 2021
API letter sent to EPA on the upcoming proposed rulemaking for the RFS Volume Standards for 2021 and 2022.
API Response to SEC Request for Public Input on Climate Disclosures
Monday, June 14, 2021
API highlights industry progress in climate reporting to the SEC.