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API’s GHG Reporting Template Is a Model of Misdirection

July 21, 2021By Kyle Gracey#APIMyths, Blog Post, Featured, Stopping Carbon Lock-In

The American Petroleum Industry’s greenhouse gas reporting template obscures the U.S. oil & gas industry’s massive responsibility for the climate crisis.

Big Oil & API spending millions on Facebook & Instagram to misleadingly spin “gas is green”

July 9, 2021By Andy Rowell#APIMyths, Blog Post

A great joint investigation by Channel 4 news in the UK and InfluenceMap has found that oil industry lobbyists are using social media such as Facebook and Instagram to promote the continued use of gas and the myth that gas is a green fuel.

Carbon Capture: Five Decades of False Hope, Hype, and Hot Air

June 17, 2021By Andy Rowell#APIMyths, Blog Post, Deep Dive, Featured, Stopping Carbon Lock-In

Five decades on from the first CCS project, the technology remains riddled with problems, unproven at scale, and not fit for purpose. It is beyond time to focus on the real solutions to the climate crisis and injustice that the fossil fuel industry has wrought. Neither CO2-rich gas or LNG qualify.

Response to API meeting at the White House

June 9, 2021By David Turnbull#APIMyths, Blog Post, Press Releases

API is not to be trusted when it comes to climate and energy policy. They have stood in the way of climate action for decades, and continue to spout myths in order to protect the bottom lines of its Big Oil and Gas members.

Wrong again API! A Paris-aligned scenario means less oil and gas

May 26, 2021By Lorne Stockman#APIMyths, Blog Post, Featured, Infographics

The American Petroleum Institute (API) falsely claims that oil and gas will be leading energy sources in 2040, even in a Paris-aligned scenario. We show how API gets it wrong.

Sorry, API, Gas Isn’t Why Emissions Are Down

May 17, 2021By Kyle Gracey#APIMyths, Blog Post, Deep Dive, Featured, Fossil Gas

The API claims gas is the main reason US power sector emissions are down. Our latest analysis shows it’s not.

Bad Data and Deception: The American Petroleum Institute Pivots on Methane

April 22, 2021By Andy Rowell#APIMyths, Blog Post, Deep Dive, Featured, Fossil Gas

A detailed analysis by Oil Change International of the public statements and commitments by the American Petroleum Institute (API) around methane emissions and climate change has uncovered a decade of spurious data, deceptive messaging, and disingenuous public positioning by the big oil spin doctors.

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