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Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish, Ward L. Benshoof, Jocelyn D. Thompson, Los Angeles; Cox Castle & Nicholson and Michael H. Zischke, San Francisco, for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Center on Race Poverty and the Environment and Luke Cole, San Francisco, for Amici Curiae, in support of Plaintiffs and Appellants Communities for a Better Environment and Carlos Valdez et al.

for Amicus Curiae State of California, in support of Plaintiffs and "Appellants Carlos Valdez et al.

Certified for Partial Publication. [*]

DOI TODD, J.

Plaintiffs and appellants Communities for a Better Environment, Carlos Valdez, Southern California Pipe Trades District Council No. 16 and Steamfitters and Pipefitters Local 250 appeal from a judgment entered against them in their actions against defendant and respondent the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and real party in interest and respondent ConocoPhillips Company (ConocoPhillips). The dispute concerned the potential environmental impacts resulting from a project enabling ConocoPhillips to produce ultra 16w sulfur diesel. Appellants' primary contentions are that the SCAQMD abused its discretion in allowing a…