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Bay Area air board forces refineries to adopt clean air technology
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The Chevron Richmond Refinery in Richmond, Calif. on Tuesday, February 4, 2020.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to require refineries including the Chevron and PBF facilities in the East Bay to reduce the amount of air pollution they emit by installing expensive particulate scrubbers.
Environmental and community activists as well as many of the regulatory board’s own directors praised the move as one that will help cut emissions and curb health problems in the predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods closest to the plants.
Councilman, advocates call for change after latest Chevron refinery spill
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RICHMOND, Calif. - Richmond residents deserve more answers from Chevron and public agencies about an oil spill earlier this month and the community needs to discuss a future without the oil giant s refinery operating there, city officials and local advocates said Tuesday.
The Feb. 9 leak of several hundred gallons at the refinery s long wharf in Richmond caused a sheen of oil that spread from Point Molate to Brooks Island, according to a unified command for the spill that involved Chevron, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Contra Costa Health Services and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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