It was founded on June 10, 1929, by President Herbert Hoover.[2][3][4] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.[2]
In 2019, Politico reported that the group spends more than $1 million per year on lobbying activities.[1] The group disdained the policies of the Obama administration, with IPAA vice president Jeff Eshelman saying in a leaked recording that Obama administration had a "target list of everything that they wanted done to shut down the oil and gas industry."[1] The group approved of the Trump administration's policies, with IPAA CEO Barry Russell boasting in a leaked recording that the IPAA had "unprecedented access to people that are in these positions who are trying to help us, which is great."[1]
In 2012, it produced the documentary Truthland, a response to Gasland.[5]
