Government,
Environmental & Energy
May 13, 2022
ExxonMobil sues Santa Barbara County for trucking permits
The lawsuit alleges that following 2015’s oil spill, ExxonMobil applied for an interim trucking permit to temporarily transport crude oil from a still-operating pump unit to a terminal and then haul it by truck to refineries, but the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted against it on a narrow majority to protect the environment.
Santa Barbara County is capriciously denying ExxonMobil trucking permits to carry crude oil to refineries, the oil giant alleged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles.
“The project denial was an arbitrary, capricious, and unlawful prejudicial abuse of discretion,” wrote Dawn Sestito of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, who represents ExxonMobil. She said it also violates the takings clauses of the U.S and California Constitutions by impairi...
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