New or amended laws and regulations, or new or different applications or interpretations of existing laws and regulations, including those related to drilling, flaring, flaring, flaring, production techniques like hydraulic fracturing and acidization pipelines, labor and employment taxes, royalty rates, import/export taxes, raw materials, equipment or products, use of land water and other natural resources, manufacturing of chemicals, marketing or exporting commodities, and other measures aimed at reducing Occidental's costs or demand for Occidental's products.