Environmental activists to protest Dodgers' home opener over partnership with embattled oil company

Opening time for the Los Angeles Dodgers volition beryllium met with protesters connected Thursday day aft a radical of biology activists signed a petition to telephone for an extremity to the team’s arguable concern with an oil-and-gas company. 

The "Dodgers Fans Against Fossil Fuels" protestation volition beryllium held extracurricular Dodger Stadium opening 2 hours earlier archetypal transportation to request that squad proprietor Mark Walter chopped ties with Phillips 66, a Texas-based institution that was indicted successful November implicit allegations that it had discharged hundreds of thousands of gallons of concern wastewater into the Los Angeles County sewer system

FILE - Los Angeles Dodgers president and controlling proprietor Mark Walter watches during crippled 5 of the 2021 NLCS against the Atlanta Braves astatine Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers defeated the Braves 11-2 connected Oct. 21, 2021. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

"A national expansive assemblage has indicted Phillips 66, proprietor of the 76 gas-station marque whose logo is displayed crossed Dodger Stadium, for allegedly sending thousands of gallons of h2o contaminated with lipid and grease into LA County's sewer system," a property merchandise from The Climate Reality Project’s Los Angeles section read.  

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"The institution is accused of knowingly and negligently violating the Clean Water Act." 

In a petition signed by much than 27,000 people, activists called connected Walter to "immediately end" their sponsorship woody with Phillips 66, which called the concern "greenwashing of the worst kind."

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a six-count indictment successful November alleging that Phillips 66 had violated the Clean Water Act by dumping "hundreds of thousands of gallons of concern wastewater from its Carson lipid refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system." The institution was besides accused of failing to study those violations. 

A wide presumption of a people committee during the NLCS workouts astatine Dodgers Stadium connected Oct. 12, 2024.  (Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images)

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The charges stem from an incidental connected Nov. 24, 2020. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, Phillips 66 allegedly discharged an estimated 310,000 gallons of "non-compliant concern wastewater" into the sewer strategy during a 2.5-hour window. 

The wastewater was believed to incorporate astir 64,000 pounds of lipid and grease.

In a abstracted incidental connected Feb. 8, 2021, different 480,000 gallons were believed to person been discharged into the sewer system. 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Dodgers for comment.

Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith (16) (left) and alleviation pitcher Tanner Scott (66) (right) celebrates the triumph against the Chicago Cubs successful the ninth inning during the Tokyo Series astatine Tokyo Dome connected March 18, 2025. (Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images)

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Earlier this month, California State Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez besides called for the Dodgers to extremity their concern with Phillips 66. 

"Ending the sponsorship with Phillips 66 would nonstop the connection that it’s clip to extremity our clasp of polluting fossil fuels and enactment unneurotic towards a cleaner, greener future," Gonzalez’s missive to Walter read. 

The Dodgers volition unfastened the play Thursday astatine location against the Detroit Tigers.

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