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Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Catherine Reheis-Boyd

73. Catherine Reheis-Boyd

Catherine Reheis-Boyd is the president and CEO of the Western States Petroleum Association, aka WSPA (“whis-puh”), which encompasses California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Basically, her job is to keep oil refineries and their workers in business, which makes fighting California’s efforts to scale back the oil industry her business. Reheis-Boyd has been with WSPA for more than three decades, rising to president and CEO in January 2010. Her portfolio at WSPA includes overseeing legislative and regulatory issues associated with transportation fuels policy, air and water quality, climate change, renewable fuels, alternative energy issues and crude oil and natural gas production – essentially every issue facing the oil industry today, which is fitting, given that she’s worked in the oil industry overall for nearly four decades. Reheis-Boyd has her bachelors in Natural Resources Management from Cal Poly and pursued postgrad studies in environmental engineering at USC. Fun fact: Reheis-Boyd worked her way through college as a bricklayer.

Updated Aug. 15, 2023

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