Editing Shell USA (section)

===Environmental===
[[File:Anacortes Refinery 32017.JPG|thumb|Storage tanks and towers at Shell Puget Sound Refinery, [[Anacortes, Washington]].]]

Shell Puget Sound Refinery, [[Anacortes, Washington]], was fined $291,000 from 2006 to 2010 for violations of the [[Clean Air Act (United States)|Clean Air Act]] making it the second most-fined violator in the [[Pacific Northwest]]. {{Asof|2011}}, it has been listed as a "high-priority violator" since 2008.<ref name="McClure">{{cite news| author=Robert McClure and Lisa Stiffler| title=EPA's 'High Priority Violators' Scattered Across the Northwest | publisher=[[NPR]]| date=November 7, 2011| url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=142092185&ft=3&f=142092185|access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hsu">{{cite news| last=Hsu| first=Nelson| title=Poisoned Places Map| publisher=[[NPR]]| url=https://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2011/10/toxic-air/#12.00/48.4652/-122.5435| access-date=February 27, 2012}}</ref>

In 2008, a lawsuit was filed against Shell Oil Company for alleged Clean Air Act violation. Shell [[Deer Park Refinery]] 20 miles east of Houston, was the nation's eighth-largest oil refinery and one of the world's largest petrochemical producers. The facility was also the second-largest source of air pollution in [[Harris County, Texas|Harris County]], which ranked among the lowest in the nation in several measures of air quality.<ref name=ABC>{{cite web| last=Donovan|first=John|title=Reporter|url=http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2011/09/06/shell-to-pay-500000-for-pollution-in-texas/|work=ABC News|date=September 6, 2011|publisher=Royal Dutch Shell|access-date=September 6, 2011}}</ref> According to [[Sierra Club]] and Environment Texas, analysis of Shell's reports to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, air pollutants released at Deer Park since 2003 exceeded the [[Environmental protection agency|EPA's]] emissions limits.<ref name="Reuters">{{Cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-refinery-environment-shell-deerpark-idUSTRE53M60H20090423 | title=Shell agrees to settle TX refinery pollution suit | date=April 23, 2009
| access-date=February 27, 2012|work=Reuters| author=Seba, Erwin}}</ref>

Will Oremus from Slate magazine states, "The company's business depends on being able to anticipate and respond quickly to seismic shifts in the energy market. So it employs a team of big-thinking futurists, called scenario planners, to keep it a step ahead. In 2008, the company released a fresh pair of scenarios for how the world might respond to climate change over the coming decades. Both were predicated on what the company called 'three hard truths': that global energy demand is rising, that the supply of conventional energy will not be able to keep up, and that climate change is both real and dangerous."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwynne/2014/06/26/the-public-relations-debate-about-global-warming-heats-up/|title=The Public Relations Debate About Global Warming Heats Up|first=Robert|last=Wynne|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>