Articles for Phillips 66

L.A. County supervisors seek aid for hundreds of workers affected by Phillips 66 refinery closure
2 weeks, 6 days ago

L.A. County supervisors seek aid for hundreds of workers affected by Phillips 66 refinery closure

LA Times  

With a major oil refinery in Wilmington and Carson scheduled to close next year, Los Angeles County officials are looking to shore up resources for hundreds of workers who will be left without jobs. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion Tuesday asking county staff to work with local partners such as the city of Los …

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Letters to the Editor: If ‘corporations are people,’ does criminally charged Phillips 66 face jail time?
1 month ago

Letters to the Editor: If ‘corporations are people,’ does criminally charged Phillips 66 face jail time?

LA Times  

To the editor: “We’re sending a message.” “No one is above the law.” Right. Reading these quotes about the felony criminal charges against Phillips 66, we all remember Mitt Romney lecturing to us unwashed ignoramuses that “corporations are people.” Here’s my prediction: Phillips 66 will be convicted of some combination of misdemeanors and felonies. To the editor: So, with the …

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‘It’s a tremendous opportunity.’ Developers see gold in closure of Phillips 66 oil refinery in South Bay
1 month, 1 week ago

‘It’s a tremendous opportunity.’ Developers see gold in closure of Phillips 66 oil refinery in South Bay

LA Times  

The South Bay is in for a large-scale transformation near the Port of Los Angeles as Phillips 66 shuts down its sprawling refineries and makes way for developers to reimagine the prime real estate. “It may have just been out-competed by the rest of the refineries.” Asked if the site might be more valuable to Phillips 66 as developed real …

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Column: American democracy is at stake. So is the planet’s climate
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Column: American democracy is at stake. So is the planet’s climate

LA Times  

The likeness of Abraham Lincoln is seen on a $5 bill. This weekend, former President Trump told supporters that he doesn’t mind if journalists — people like me and my L.A. Times colleagues — get shot. The Times’ Jeffrey Fleishman recently described a “culture of retribution” that has seen Trump supporters harass librarians, threaten election workers and target scientists in …

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Another refinery shuts down in California. What happens to gas prices?
2 months ago

Another refinery shuts down in California. What happens to gas prices?

LA Times  

California’s attempt to manage a smooth transition away from gasoline just got roughed up with this week’s decision by Phillips 66 to shutter its refinery in Wilmington next year, wiping out more than 8% of the state’s crude oil processing capacity. A Phillips 66 spokesman said the decision is not related to that bill, but in a press release the …

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Phillips 66 refinery closure a welcome surprise to environmental and community activists
2 months, 1 week ago

Phillips 66 refinery closure a welcome surprise to environmental and community activists

LA Times  

For more than a century, the sprawling Phillips 66 oil refinery complex has dominated a vast tract of southern Los Angeles County. So when Phillips 66 announced recently that it would shutter the complex late next year, it came as a welcome surprise to many, according to Julia May, senior scientist for Communities for a Better Environment. And it may …

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Phillips 66 is closing Wilmington-area refineries after more than a century, marking the end of an era
2 months, 1 week ago

Phillips 66 is closing Wilmington-area refineries after more than a century, marking the end of an era

LA Times  

Over more than 100 years, the Wilmington and Carson oil refineries have pumped out millions of barrels of gasoline, filling the thirsty cars of Southern California’s freeway-driving motorists. “Phillips 66 remains committed to serving California and will continue to take the necessary steps to meet our commercial and customer demands,” said Mark Lashier, the company’s chairman and chief executive. “I …

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Phillips 66 to close California refinery days after Newsom signed oil law
2 months, 1 week ago

Phillips 66 to close California refinery days after Newsom signed oil law

Politico  

Newsom on Monday signed legislation aimed at preventing gasoline price spikes by giving the state authority to require refiners to store more gas and share resupply and maintenance plans with the state. He said the company would work with California to maintain and maybe even increase gas supplies, but didn’t say where the new fuel would come from. Newsom held …

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Column: Are climate protesters changing the world? Or wasting their time?
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: Are climate protesters changing the world? Or wasting their time?

LA Times  

Sometimes it’s clear when you’re watching history: the March on Washington. Although he was thrilled, he said, to be invited to speak — he grew up in California’s Monterey County and was trained as an organizer by the NAACP chapter — he was “heartbroken. “The Monterey County Branch should return Chevron’s check immediately,” Jealous wrote. I don’t know — if …

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Column: Activists and celebrities urge Dodgers to dump oil industry advertiser
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Activists and celebrities urge Dodgers to dump oil industry advertiser

LA Times  

For the record: A previous version of this post said that U.S. Rep. Katie Porter had signed a letter urging Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter to end a sponsorship deal with Phillips 66, owner of the 76 gasoline station chain. When I followed up with a column criticizing the team’s official charity for taking money from Phillips 66 and …

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Column: Don’t listen to the Dodgers Foundation. Big Oil is no All-Star
5 months, 1 week ago

Column: Don’t listen to the Dodgers Foundation. Big Oil is no All-Star

LA Times  

Dodgers left fielder Trayce Thompson slumps against the outfield wall at Dodger Stadium, with 76 gasoline ads behind him, after a home run by the Padres in 2022. When I asked him about the Dodgers Foundation and Phillips 66 launching a science, technology, engineering and math education program for 5,000 local kids in 2022, Reynolds acknowledged that “joint promotions with …

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Column: Good news for 100% clean energy. Geothermal has finally arrived
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: Good news for 100% clean energy. Geothermal has finally arrived

LA Times  

A drilling rig at the Cape Station geothermal project, currently under construction in Beaver County, Utah. Geothermal power plants — which tap scorching-hot underground rocks and reservoirs to generate renewable electricity — have been bit players in California’s energy landscape for decades, too expensive to compete with solar, wind and fossil fuels. Geothermal startup Fervo Energy — which has spent …

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Column: It’s time for the Dodgers to stop taking Big Oil money
6 months ago

Column: It’s time for the Dodgers to stop taking Big Oil money

LA Times  

I’m pleased to report that Mark Walter, who owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, is financing two big clean energy projects. I’m less pleased to report that under his watch, the team to which I’ve devoted much of my life won’t stop shilling for Phillips 66 — an oil company that California officials have accused of a “decades-long campaign of deception” …

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