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Jack Gerard, current CEO of the American Petroleum Institute (API), is one of eight general authority members of the Seventy announced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gerard, who has served as API CEO since 2008, is scheduled to step down when his contract ends in August.

As the Trump administration eyes an infrastructure initiative, it should include natural gas pipelines too, a necessity underscored by the recent cold snap, i.e. bomb cyclone, which brought the Northeast to a standstill, American Petroleum Institute (API) CEO Jack Gerard said Tuesday.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) asked a federal district court in San Francisco to allow it to weigh in on a pair of lawsuits filed last month regarding the Trump administration’s decision to postpone the compliance dates for rules governing associated natural gas flaring and venting on public and tribal lands.

It was in May, about two years after New York officially banned high volume hydraulic fracturing, that a coalition of more than 40 business, labor and industry interests came together to defend and promote natural gas development in the state.

New York’s zero emissions credit (ZEC) program discriminates against gas-fired generators and would undermine competitive markets and raise rates if implemented, according to the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) and American Petroleum Institute (API).

The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported this week that the estimated total number of oil and natural gas wells drilled and completed during the second quarter increased 62% from the year-ago quarter.

The U.S. oil and natural gas revolution has delivered so many environmental and economic benefits that it’s easy to take the “new energy reality” for granted, but it’s time now to lay the groundwork for future energy security, American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard said Wednesday.

In separate filings Tuesday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) joined Spectra Energy Partners LP in asking FERC to extend the comment period for changes to its Guidance Manual for Environmental Report Preparation.

Following a number of headline-grabbing attacks on oil companies’ climate change policies in 2015, American Petroleum Institute (API) President Jack Gerard’s remarks to kick off 2016 suggest the lobbying group’s rhetoric is evolving to recast the role of fossil fuels — and natural gas in particular — in the climate debate.