★ Private Action
American Petroleum Institute donates $500K to Trump-Vance inaugural
Filed January 2025$500,000
★ The Brief
What happened
The American Petroleum Institute (API), the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, representing nearly 600 member corporations across production, refinement, and distribution, donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee in connection with the 2025 presidential inauguration.
Who enabled it
Who benefits
Deal or steal?
Trump's order directing every federal agency to rescind energy-burdening regulations, his EPA's elimination of the climate endangerment finding, and his restart of LNG export approvals deliver across the broader oil-and-gas industry the same sweep of regulatory rollbacks API was chartered to advocate for on behalf of its nearly 600 member corporations.
American Petroleum Institute donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee in connection with the 2025 presidential inauguration. American Petroleum Institute operates in the oil & gas industry.
Actors
Who pushed it · 1Who initiated, paid, or pushed the action.
- American Petroleum Institute
Donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.
Beneficiaries
Who gained · 1Who stood to gain.
- Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee
Received $500,000 from American Petroleum Institute.
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