Valero Energy

Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The company owns and operates 15 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 2.8 million barrels per day, 10 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.1 billion gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm. Valero is also one of the US's largest retail operators with approximately 5,800 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar and Beacon brands.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's May 31, 2012 filing.
Download all contributions to Valero Energy

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $1,350,102
    Total Spent:
    $1,380,770
    Cash on Hand:
    $89,880
    Debts:
    $8,888

Standardized Donation Information

covers through 2011. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

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  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Valero Energy Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$496,000 Spent
Information

Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q3, 2011

Lobbying On Behalf of Valero Energy

View all lobbying data for Valero Energy Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

14 Mentions; 2 Submissions
Information

All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Valero Energy" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 2 FAA Notice of Proposed Modification to the June 1, 2006 MOA FAA/Subscriber Memorandum of Agreement for ASDI/NASSI Industry Access and Request for Comments 2011
    • Toggle 1 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 2 FAA Notice of Proposed Modification to the June 1, 2006 MOA FAA/Subscriber Memorandum of Agreement for ASDI/NASSI Industry Access and Request for Comments 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Premerger Notification; Reporting And Waiting Period Requirements 2011
    • Toggle 1 FCC Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals 2011
    • Toggle 1 FCA Loan Policies and Operations: Loan Purchases from FDIC; Effective Date 2011
    • Toggle 1 FCA Meetings; Sunshine Act 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Automotive Fuel Ratings Certification and Posting 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA GHG New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for Utilities 2011
    • Toggle 1 FTC Granting of Requests for Early Termination of the Waiting Period under the Premerger Notification Rules 2011
    • Toggle 1 FAA 11-ANE-01 Establish Class E Airspace at Brunswick Executive, Brunswick, ME 2011
    • Toggle 1 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011

Contractor Misconduct

3 Instances
Information

This information is collected by the Project On Government Oversight from press releases, court documents, news reports and other public records. It is not meant to be an exhaustive account of all instances of federal contractor misconduct.

More information on each instance, including primary source documents, is available on POGO's site by clicking on the instance description. More information on POGO's methodology is available here.

covers through POGO's March 3, 2012 release
Misconduct Type Hired By Incident Year Disposition Penalty
Environment None TCEQ Fine for May: Sept. 2008 Emissions Event 2011 Fine $591,798
Environment None Air Quality Violations at Benicia Refinery 2011 Settlement $130,500
Labor None St. Charles Refinery Wrongful Death 2011 Pending $0
View all contractor misconduct data for Valero Energy Sources: Federal Contractor Misconduct Database from POGO

Advisory Committees

2 people on 2 committees
Information

Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Valero Energy" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Department of Homeland Security 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Valero Energy