Tillery
BELLEVILLE – Stephen Tillery, ready for trial on a claim that weed killer paraquat caused four plaintiffs to suffer Parkinson’s disease, won the biggest judgment ever in an American trial and lost it at the Illinois Supreme Court.
In 2003, after a bench trial, late Madison County judge Nicholas Byron awarded more than $10 billion to a class of cigarette smokers Tillery represented.
The few American cases with higher judgments, such as state tobacco litigation in the 1990s and Deepwater Horizon explosion suits, ended in settlement.
Tillery retreated from the field of class actions after the state Supreme Court and Congress restricted them, though he has returned as ambitious as ever.
Renewable Feed, New Technology and C2C Strategies Offer Opportunities for Refiners
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By Scott Jenkins |
May 1, 2021
After a rough past year, petroleum refineries are seeking profit opportunities through the use of renewable feedstocks, such as vegetable oils and waste fats, as well as with new alkylation technologies and by increasing “crude-to-chemicals” (C2C) approaches
The past 18 months have generally been extraordinarily challenging for the world’s petroleum refineries, as pandemic-related restrictions dramatically reduced demand for refinery products and cut refinery utilization rates. Even with demand for transportation fuels returning as the world economy begins to emerge from the pandemic, long-term growth in gasoline and diesel fuel demand is not expected. Flat fuel demand growth, coupled with a broader trend toward decarbonizing the energy sector and increasing investment tied to environmental, social an
Chevron, Toyota to explore strategic alliance on hydrogen
Chevron USA, through its Chevron Products Company division (Chevron), and Toyota Motor North America, Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a strategic alliance to catalyze and lead the development of commercially viable, large-scale businesses in hydrogen, with the goal to advance a functional, thriving global hydrogen economy.
Chevron and Toyota are seeking to work on three main strategic priorities:
Collaborating on hydrogen-related public policy measures that support the development of hydrogen infrastructure;
Understanding current and future market demand for light-duty and heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles and supply opportunities for that demand; and
Chevron, Hokkaido Gas sign LNG deal
Chevron Corp has signed a five-year LNG supply agreement with Japanese utility Hokkaido Gas, it said on April 7.
Under the agreement, Chevron USA, a unit of Chevron, will supply Hokkaido Gas with about 0.5mn metric tons/year of LNG over a period of five years starting April 2022.
“We are delighted to design and execute a sale and purchase agreement with our new partner Hokkaido Gas that will bring Chevron LNG directly to Hokkaido, a key growth area,” said John Kuehn, president of Chevron Global Gas. “It broadens our customer base in Japan, a market that is foundational to our LNG business.”
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