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Money / PACs

American Petroleum Institute

American Petroleum Institute Political Action Committee (API PAC)

Trade association PAC FEC C00483677

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$271K
Trade association lobbying, all issues $14.7M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the trade association’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the trade association’s employees or members; the trade association itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

Method

American Petroleum Institute reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists and 7 outside firms. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Clean Air and Water (quality)8 of 88/8
  • Energy/Nuclear8 of 88/8
  • Environment/Superfund8 of 88/8
  • Fuel/Gas/Oil8 of 88/8
  • Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries8 of 88/8
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 8 of 8 · Trade (domestic/foreign) 8 of 8 · 6 more · Show all 13
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code8 of 88/8
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)8 of 88/8
  • Natural Resources7 of 87/8
  • Budget/Appropriations3 of 83/8
  • Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities3 of 83/8
  • Chemicals/Chemical Industry2 of 82/8
  • Manufacturing2 of 82/8
  • Homeland Security1 of 81/8

Bills named in the filings 99 bills, this period

94 more, 61 named in only one filing · Show all 99

From the filings

“HR 3151 SHIPS for America Act of 2025”
Q3 2026 filing · Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
“Issues related to permitting reform Issues related to RFS Issues related to energy markets”
Q3 2026 filing · Energy/Nuclear

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • CommerceDOC
  • Environmental Protection AgencyEPA
  • InteriorDOI
  • Treasury
  • Energy
  • U.S. Trade RepresentativeUSTR
  • White House Office
  • Executive Office of the PresidentEOP
  • Council on Environmental QualityCEQ
  • Internal Revenue ServiceIRS
  • 13 more

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by American Petroleum Institute, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 89 sitting members of Congress and 5 other candidates in 2025–26.

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