On Wednesday, Senator Suzette Martinez Valladares joined her Republican colleagues in the California State Senate in sending a letter urging Governor Gavin Newsom to immediately convene a special session of the Legislature to address the fallout from the impending closure of Valero’s Benicia refinery, scheduled for April.  This marks the second major refinery shutdown in California in the past six ...

A bipartisan coalition of concerned legislators has issued a public letter to Governor Newsom expressing serious concern over planned refinery closures in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. The letter was signed by Senator Suzette Martinez Valladares R-Santa Clarita, Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil R-Jackson, Senator Melissa Hurtado D-Bakersfield, Senator Kelly Seyarto R-Murrieta, Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez R-Indio, Assemblyman Josh Hoover R-Folsom, Assemblywoman ...