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Environmental & Energy

Sep. 25, 2023

Exxon urges judge not to deny oil trucks in Santa Ynez area

“There will always be a risk of an accident on any road,” O’Melveny & Myers LLP partner Dawn Sestito argued for Exxon. She said the company’s mitigation efforts had been glossed over.

An attorney for Exxon Mobil Corporation urged a federal judge in Los Angeles to revisit her tentative order denying the corporation a permit application for oil trucking in the Santa Ynez region.

U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee took the matter under submission after a hearing in Los Angeles on Friday. She told the parties she was leaning toward granting summary judgment to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and intervenor envi...

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