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Valero Energy Announces Plans to Exit California, Incurs $1.1 Billion Charges to Refinery Operations

April 16, 2025 5:50 pmApril 16, 2025 5:51 pm

Citing low operating margins, increased operating costs and a growingly harsh regulatory environment, including a state mandated moratorium on the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, and in the wake of an $85 million fine related to “egregious...

President Trump Targets California’s Overreaching Cap and Trade Program

April 10, 2025 11:35 amApril 10, 2025 12:12 pm

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy Cap and Trade program, which ostensibly facilitates greenhouse gas emission reductions. Trump is promoting “all of the above” energy policy,...

Gavin Newsom is ‘All In’ on Undermining Trump EPA

March 21, 2025 10:45 amMarch 21, 2025 10:45 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced earlier this month that the EPA will undertake 31 historic deregulation actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. Administrator Zeldin is taking a DOGE flame-thrower...

Senate Enviro Committee Kills Bill to Repeal 65¢ Gas Tax Increase, and Low-Carbon Fuel Regs

March 19, 2025 7:11 pmMarch 20, 2025 8:55 am

A Senate bill that would have repealed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon and end the new LCFS Low-Carbon Fuel regulations that were adopted last year, was killed in the Senate Environmental...

.65 Cent-Per-Gallon Tax-Hike Halted By CARB Following Rejection By Office Of Administrative Law

February 20, 2025 2:45 amFebruary 20, 2025 2:46 am

A Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase by .65 cents previously approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was halted on Tuesday following mandate changes being rejected by the Office Of Administrative Law. In November of last year,...

State Report Shows Growing Oil Use, Lower Carbon Intensity in California

February 18, 2025 3:38 pmFebruary 18, 2025 3:38 pm

As technology advances, industries are increasingly able to achieve more with less. Automation, data analytics, and innovative engineering solutions are driving efficiency across sectors, including one of the most scrutinized industries: oil refining. However, a persistent myth remains—many believe that...

Is California Driving Oil Biz Out of State to Takeover Oil Refineries?

February 18, 2025 3:05 pmFebruary 20, 2025 10:33 am

California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The blame for the 50% increase in energy costs according to the LAO is California’s “ambitious climate‑related goals,”...