You may be seeing news reports again about the legal challenge to our Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project brought by environmental activists. I wanted to make sure you had the latest information on this subject.

The Court of Appeals yesterday published an opinion ruling against the City of Richmond and Chevron holding that the Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) was insufficient in providing information concerning the types of crudes that we would continue to process and on the plan that we would undertake to mitigate greenhouse gases. We are currently reviewing the Court’s lengthy opinion, as well as our options going forward.

Needless to say, we are disappointed with the Court’s opinion. We continue to believe that both the evidence and the law amply support the adequacy of the City’s EIR, and that the Project’s environmental and reliability improvements are significant.

You may be certain that we will continue to work hard on the Project. Now more than ever, we will continue to focus on safe, reliable and environmentally sound operation of the refinery.

Meanwhile if you have any questions please contact Brent Tippen—Policy, Government and Public Affairs at 510-242-4700 or Brent.Tippen@chevron.com or you may also visit our new website.

Links to other news stories related to this subject:

West County Times
Bloomberg Businessweek
Reuters
Nasdaq