Articles from Western States Petroleum Association

With elected officials in Sacramento recognizing that Californians are struggling with a cost-of-living crisis and demanding action to make the state more affordable, a new campaign from the Western States Petroleum Association is asking leaders to commit to opposing any new policies that would increase Californians’ energy bills.

The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is pleased to announce that Jim Stanley has joined the organization as Director of Media Relations. In this role, Stanley will lead WSPA’s media engagement and messaging strategy across all five states the association serves—Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. His work will focus on communicating the importance of an affordable and reliable fuel supply while supporting the workers and communities who make it possible.

New details highlighting the ways California’s oil and gas industry are essential to our state’s economy are contained in a report released today from the LAEDC Institute for Applied Economics. The report, “Oil and Gas in California: The Industry, its Economic Contribution and Major User Industries” quantifies the jobs, tax revenue, and economic activity of the industry in four key sub-regions in the state (Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Coast, and San Joaquin Valley.)

The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is pleased to announce that Denise Davis will join the organization as Vice President of Strategy and Communications, effective Monday, January 13, 2025.

The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) today released the following statement, and raised critical questions, from President and CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd in advance of ABX2-1 final Assembly vote:

Today, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) unveiled a new program called Levanta Tu Voz (Raise your Voice) that will help policymakers see and hear what has gone missing in the state’s drastic and costly energy debates. Levanta Tu Voz will lay bare what many of California’s Latinos already know: while policymakers say they are speaking for the Latino community, they aren’t really listening. The result has been more energy policies that move too fast and are too costly to help Latino families get ahead when they are still recovering from the pandemic’s economic damage and dealing with California’s exorbitantly high cost of living.

With Governor Newsom unwilling to listen to Californians about the increased costs and burdens created by his energy bans and mandates, the 150,000 women and men of California’s oil and gas industry are sending a warning sign to other states. Through advertisements mirroring the markets Newsom placed his own campaign ads in, industry workers want to caution others about the impacts his policies have had on California communities and their careers.