API statement on EPA-California decision

Robert Dodge | 202-682-8127 | dodger@api.org

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2009 - The American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement today on the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to grant California's request to impose restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions:

“The EPA’s decision to grant California’s request to impose restrictions on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should not trigger regulation of GHG emissions under the Clean Air Act. Using the Clean Air Act to regulate GHGs would impose costly requirements for hundreds of thousands of businesses, large and small, as well as schools, offices and buildings across the United States. Since 2000, the oil and natural gas industry has invested $59 billion in technology for zero- and low-carbon research and development, or 44 percent of the combined spending by U.S. companies and the federal government.”