HOLLY CORP: Navajo Refining Seeks to Resolve Breaches at Artesia

Holly Corporation’s subsidiary, Navajo Refining Company, L.L.C., continues to be in negotiations with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) on environmental matters concerning the refinery at Artesia, N.M.

In October 2008, the NMED issued an Amended Notice of Violation and Proposed…

WILLIAMS PARTNERS: Has $1.5Mil Dec. 31 Liability for N.M., Colo.

Williams Partners L.P. has accrued liabilities totaling US$1.5 million at Dec. 31, 2008 for environmental activities in New Mexico and Colorado sites.

Current federal regulations require that certain unlined liquid containment pits located near named rivers and catchment areas be taken…

FOUR QUARTERS: Gets $6,000 Fine for Unregistered Pesticides

LOS ANGELES, California — November 6, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Four Quarters Wholesale, Inc., a Los Angeles, Calif., distributor of general merchandise, $6,000 for distributing unregistered pesticides in violation of federal pesticide law.

The EPA determined…