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Doug Burgum: “Chevron and Valero announced they're shutting down…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks at CERAWeek in Houston — 3/25/2026

Published | Video Starts at 18:39

They used to have 40 refineries. Texas has 36. There's the new one, the America first refinery being built. $300 billion project here in Texas. California's got eight refineries. Two of them, Chevron and Valero announced they're shutting down refineries in California because of regulation. Right. So Alaskan lng, that was on the topic. Alaska LNG is a key to this thing. (18:39–18:43)

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Asserts that Chevron and Valero are closing refineries in California due to regulatory reasons.

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