-: My name is Molly O'Connell
and I am an environmental paralegal
for the Marathon Petroleum Corporation.
I research, a lot of research, with the Federal Register.
I monitor the Department of Environmental Agencies
for states.
I monitor state laws and regulations and legislature
on what's coming ahead for environmental issues,
and I collaborate a lot
with different groups within the company,
such as the Rails, the Terminals, the biodiesel group,
all these up and coming environmental issues
as we deal with climate change
and impacts to the environment
and how Marathon is going to better the environment.
We have a responsibility at Marathon to clean up areas
that have been impacted by an oil spill, or a landfill,
or a leaked storage tank,
an underground storage tank,
which stores waste product from petroleum.
And so as the land sells or has environmental issues,
I help come in, do the financial budget with that,
and make sure that permits and funding
is available for that project
and oversee that with the project managers.
Initially we get a notification from the EPA
or the state agency that we have been in violation
and we take the requirements that the state has put upon us,
and we go through
and we make sure we meet those requirements.
So when we know the requirements that are needed,
we can then properly fund the project
and make sure that we have the equipment
and the personnel to clean up that site
and make sure that it's environmentally sound
and there'll be no other issues with it.