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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 8.23.24

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Three years after a massive spill at a Los Angeles wastewater facility sent millions of gallons of sewage into Santa Monica Bay, the city has agreed to spend more than $20 million on improvements to remedy the environmental...more

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Asbestos Exposure Widespread at Oil and Gas Job Sites in Texas

Workers at asbestos job sites in the state of Texas may be at risk of developing mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, or other diseases as a result of asbestos exposure....more

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IRS Asks for Comment on Whether Existing Fossil-Based Hydrogen Production Methods Should be Eligible for the IRA Production Tax...

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contained an enormous benefit - valued in the billions of dollars - for the U.S. hydrogen industry in the form of a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for “qualified” green hydrogen produced over...more

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SPR Crude Oil Releases—It’s Complicated

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There have been media reports recently that have discussed the disposition of crude oil that is being released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). You may recall that the Biden Administration ordered emergency sales...more

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EPA Issues Broad Updates to Renewable Fuel Standards Program: 5 Things to Know

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The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has recently finalized volumes for compliance years 2020, 2021, and 2022 under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”)’s renewable fuel standard (“RFS”) program and took several other related...more

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As Ukraine Fights for Its Life, Philadelphia Remains Dormant

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Just north of Philadelphia International Airport and south of the Philadelphia sports Stadium complex lies the Port of Philadelphia, one of the largest freshwater ports in the world. So strategically located is the Port of...more

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California AG Bonta Warns California Refineries about Price Gouging

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In a March 18 letter, California AG Rob Bonta warned refineries operating in the California market against using the recent disruptions in the global oil market as an opportunity to violate state antitrust laws and, in...more

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Renewable Fuel Standard Update: Recent EPA Activity Drives RIN Value

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On December 7, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its proposed 2020, 2021, and 2022 Renewable Volume Obligations (“RVOs”). RVOs determine the amount of renewable fuel (typically, ethanol) certain...more

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Opportunities For Post-Acquisition Optimization

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Find out what goes into the transfer of a refinery asset and why post-acquisition integration is where true value is delivered to the buyer....more

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Not Dead (Yet?): After HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, The Renewable Fuels Standard’s...

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In its June 25, 2021 decision in HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, the Supreme Court rejected the central holding of a January 2020 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...more

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Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Extension of Renewable Fuel Program Extensions

On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al., Slip Op. 20-472 (June 25, 2021), which concerned small refiners’ eligibility for hardship exemptions...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Bipartisan Bill Introduced To Clarify Oil Refinery Exemptions

On July 2, 2021, U.S. Representatives Angie Craig (D-MN) and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced a bill called the Small Refinery Exemption Clarification Act of 2021. The bill clarifies that only oil refineries that have been...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, No. 20-472, holding that a small refinery can apply for a hardship exemption from the Environmental...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Big Win For Small Refineries

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On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with small oil refineries by making it easier for the companies to win exemptions from the existing mandate that they mix ethanol and other renewable fuels into gasoline and...more

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Cyberattack Shuts Major US Fuel Pipeline: Why Colonial Pipeline & Why Now?

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Find out why the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline will have broad implications on how the energy industry defends and responds to future incidents....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Venezuela Update: March 12, 2021 (Spanish)

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors....more

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Venezuela Update: March 12, 2021

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Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors....more

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Oil Refiners Warm to K-Shaped Recovery

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As the world emerges from the economic slowdown triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, many economic observers have lamented that the recovery is likely to be K-shaped: some sectors of the economy will recover and begin to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.23.2020 | Top Story: Pandemic and Global Economy Dominate Virtual G-20 Meeting

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The G-20 held a virtual summit this weekend, and discussions about taming the pandemic and addressing “the global economic damage it has wrought dominated” the meeting....more

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Change In Demand For Motor Fuels: U.S. Energy Information Report

The United States Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) published an August 28th report titled: Changing Demand for Petroleum Products Has Led to Operational Changes at U.S. Refineries (“Report”)- Utilizing...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.11.2020 | Top Story: McDonalds Sues Former CEO Over Series of Workplace Affairs

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Eight months after firing its CEO, Steve Easterbrook, for “sexting with a subordinate,” McDonald’s has sued Easterbrook for allegedly “lying, concealing evidence and fraud” in what appears to be a series of other workplace...more

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CA Court Upholds Refinery Project EIR Reaffirming Foundational CEQA Principles

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In a 2-1 decision, the California Court of Appeal affirmed a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that an oil and gas company (Company) prepared for proposed modifications to a Los...more

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Update: Force Majeure Provisions in the Age of COVID-19

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As the COVID-19 crisis and its economic fallout intensify, contractual parties have increasingly invoked force majeure provisions to excuse performance of contracts. This article is a follow up to Schiffer Hicks Johnson’s...more

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Data is in from EPA’s “work practice” requirement that petroleum refineries monitor ambient air for benzene concentrations around their fence lines. The regulations set an “action level” of 9 µg/m3 benzene, using benzene as a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Industrial Control Systems at Risk from Targeted Snake Malware

Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

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