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Category Archives: Energy
How Energy Conservation Impacts Today's Flex Alert in California
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The heat has yet to break, but Californians are being urged to turn down their air conditioners. Operators of the state's electricity grid have declared a Flex Alert for Tuesday, telling customers to curb their power use as California's inland … Continue reading
3,500 Seeking Compensation from Chevron After Fire
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Update 4:17 p.m.: KQED's Aarti Shahani Tweeted updates this afternoon from the community center where Chevron was offering help to local residents wishing to file claims stemming from Monday's refinery fire. You can find her Tweets here. Original post: "Near … Continue reading
Air Quality Agency Detected Contaminant After Chevron Richmond Refinery Fire
The question of how Monday's fire at the Chevron refinery affected Bay Area air remains, shall we say, murky. On Thursday the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which is charged with monitoring what we breathe, backtracked on an earlier … Continue reading
Town Hall Meeting Sparks Calls for Answers, More Information from Chevron
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Chevron has a complicated relationship with Richmond. The company's Richmond refinery have been given an assessed value of more than $3 billion, making it a significant contributor to the city's tax base. The refinery has about 1,200 employees. It's also … Continue reading
BAAQMD Finds 23 'Potentially Toxic Pollutants' in Air Around Chevron Fire, Says 'Well Under Exposure Levels'
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Statement from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on air quality samples the agency took around the Richmond fire: The Air District had inspectors at the scene of the August 6 Chevron fire, collecting air quality samples from the … Continue reading
Chevron Offers Compensation to People Affected by Richmond Fire
Chevron is offering compensation to people who suffered ill health or property damage from the fire that took place Monday night at its Richmond refinery. Spokesman Lloyd Avram issued the following statement: Dear Members of the Community: We apologize for … Continue reading
Richmond's Burden: Life in the Shadow of a Refinery
If you live next to an oil refinery, are you just out of luck? Last night's fire at the Chevron plant showed that having a belching stack of chemical processing equipment as your neighbor ranges from inconvenient to downright hazardous. … Continue reading
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin on Chevron Fire: 'We Live With This Risk Day In and Day Out'
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Richmond's Mayor, probably the highest-ranking Green Party government official in the country, released this statement today: Richmond mayor seeks transparency on Chevron fire
'Green' homes sell for 9 percent more, study says
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by Anika Anand, California Watch California homes that meet environmental standards, such as energy efficiency and proximity to public transportation, are selling at higher prices than homes that don't, according to a new report. The study, conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCLA, looked … Continue reading
PG&E: Power Restored in San Francisco
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Update: PG&E says power has been restored to all customers. The outage affected many of the same customers as last night's interruption, but the company has not yet determined if the two are connected. (Bay City News) Nearly 7,000 PG&E … Continue reading
