Tag Archives: BAAQMD

Chevron Disputes Chron Report on Bypass of Monitoring Equipment

September 24, 2012, 2:41 pm • Posted by KQED News Staff
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Posted by Laird Harrison and Jon Brooks Chevron on Monday took issue with a San Francisco Chronicle report that the company routed a pipe around monitoring equipment so that some emissions at its Richmond oil refinery would escape detection. Chevron … Continue reading »

Filed under: Business and Finance, Energy, Environment, Richmond
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Rules Tightened on Cupertino Cement Plant, a Big Source of Bay Area Mercury Pollution

September 19, 2012, 1:14 pm • Posted by Laird Harrison
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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted unanimously on Wednesday to tighten regulations on the Lehigh Permanente cement plant in Cupertino. The new rules, will cut the plant's mercury emissions by 90% by 2013, according to BAAQMD engineers. Currently … Continue reading »

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Air Quality Agency Detected Contaminant After Chevron Richmond Refinery Fire

August 10, 2012, 9:29 am • Posted by Laird Harrison
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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 »

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