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On Tuesday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced that Chevron, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">which runs a 120-year-old refinery in Richmond, and the Martinez Refining Company have dropped lawsuits against a rule that will require them to drastically cut air pollution from their facilities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6808231882\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975650/bay-air-district-hails-decisive-victory-in-battle-to-cut-refinery-pollution\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Air District Hails ‘Decisive Victory’ in Battle to Cut Refinery Pollution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Regulating big oil can be hard. They’ve got hella money and lawyers to throw around. But this week, the local agency responsible for regulating air quality in the bay announced an agreement that requires the Chevron refinery in Richmond and the Martinez Refining Company to drastically reduce the bad stuff they let into the air, making it one of the strictest air pollution regulations in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>This is a pretty significant win that, you know, I think could easily be a national headline. You know, a local regulatory agency fought back Big Oil and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today I talked to KQED, Ted Goldberg, about why regulators are calling this a decisive victory in the battle to cut pollution in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>By July of 2026, Chevron and the Martinez Refining Company will have to reduce by a significant amount the amount of particulate matter their refineries emit into the air. At the headquarters for the Air District in San Francisco on Beale Street. Several high ranking members of the Air District brought reporters into room, basically to make this announcement and to talk about it at length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>The Air District has secured historic penalties and successfully defended our ground breaking rule six-five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Board member Davina Hurt, who is a member of the Belmont City Council, led the news conference announcing this historical change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>Pay unprecedented penalties and other payments of up to 138 million, agreed to measures to reduce flaring and establish a community air Quality fund that supports projects that reduce particulate matter emissions and exposures throughout the Richmond area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>You know, health officials and advocates have really described this as dirty air. The air District, four years before the board voted on this rule, looked into how much particulate matter both of these refineries put up into the air on a regular basis. They’ve done some calculations that says around 70% of the amount of particulate matter, once this rule is complied by would be reduced. And they say that could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And there are also fees associated with this new announcement too, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So you’re supposed to comply by July of 2026 a specifically for Chevron. If we don’t by this particular date, they’re going to have to pay millions of dollars in fines. And then on top of that, as part of this larger sort of agreement, Chevron is paying to resolve hundreds of notices of violation going back years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>They’re also going to pay into a community fund that’s supposed to improve the lives of people who live near refineries, is focusing on air quality and health. And then they’re also going to pay, along with the Martinez Refinery Company, the lawyers fees for the legal battle that’s been going on since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Was this surprising to you, Ted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Yes it was. Both of the companies filed lawsuits to challenge this rule that was voted on by the board of directors in 2021, and we were gearing up for a years long fight that abruptly ended. I’ve been trying to track the court hearings. When will we have the big trial over this major pollution rule? And they kept on getting delayed over and over again. And the next one was supposed to be late this month. And so I had it on my calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Okay, we’re going to reach out to the lawyers and maybe even send a reporter to the court hearing, because this is this big dramatic moment. They’re waiting. I had no idea. And basically, you know, here we have this huge oil company, Chevron Global, you know, one of the largest energy companies on the face of the earth deciding, you know, what? We might want to just give up on this lawsuit and end this legal battle and eventually comply with this anti-pollution rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit more about the backstory here, Ted, because I know many folks may have seen these refineries in Martina’s enrichment in the news because of accidents like these flaring or white ash falling from the sky in Martinez. But this isn’t what we’re talking about, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>No, this is a part of everyday operations for these two particular refineries. So as part of the refining process, crude oil eventually needs to turn into things like gasoline and jet fuel. There’s a lot of chemical processes that take place. One of those has to do with a major refinery component called the fluidized catalytic cracking unit. And basically, this is a part of the refinery that breaks down heavy crude oil into things like gasoline material that is sort of a byproduct of that process eventually has to be burned off. And when that is burned off, that’s when particulate matter gets sent into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>Greg Nudd, deputy executive officer of science and policy of the Air District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greg Nudd: \u003c/strong>Particulate matter causes a number of health problems, from asthma to cognitive decline to poor birth outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>And a number of other people at the district have emphasized for years that particulate matter can lodge itself into people’s lungs and contribute to significant health problems, and can lead to premature deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greg Nudd: \u003c/strong>It passes through the blood barrier and actually gets into your blood, gets into your brain. It’s definitely the most harmful air pollutant that we have. And the plume extend for miles and miles and impact over a million people. So we’re talking about people dying years before their time ticking away. Grandmas and grandpas from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>In many of those communities, there are larger numbers of low income folks, larger numbers of people of color, and larger numbers of cases like asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to talk a little bit more about this rule and how exactly it’s supposed to, I guess, reduce these pollutions. Ted, what do Chevron and the Martinez Refinery Company have to do exactly in order to comply with this rule?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Initially, the refineries were supposed to bring in a different device that they don’t have in their refinery, called a wet gas scrubber. I believe there are other refineries that have this, and that is aimed at reducing the particulate emissions that come from the refinery. That is a very expensive piece of equipment. Martina’s refining company said it was so expensive before the board voted yes on this years ago that they might have to, you know, reduce the number of jobs they have and possibly shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Now, the two refineries are working on a number of different strategies that they’ve been in. Communication with the Air District about that is essentially convince the Air District that says, okay, we can see that they’re lining out these plans, particularly in the Martinez Refining Company, and we can see that they’re reducing emissions, and they’re on their road to eventually complying with the law by mid 2026. The idea here is they’ve created some technology or installed some technology into their refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>And at least at the Martinez Refining Company, they’re showing the air district, hey, look, see the numbers? They’re changing. And we think by this time we’ll be able to comply and we’ll keep showing you, you know, this data as we move forward. That was part of the agreement, especially with the Martinez Refining Company, that they will they will monitor this and that they will show the district, hey, we’re doing a great job. See how we’re complying with this law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, what health advocates and the oil companies have to say about the new air pollution rule. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What was the reaction from folks who have been fighting these refineries on this and were expecting to have a big public debate about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>My colleague Danielle Venton spoke to one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I’m shocked, and I don’t fully understand their motives, but I’m really glad. It’s hard to believe that. I’m not sure what the reasons are, but this couldn’t be better news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Doctor Ashley McClure is a primary care doctor and is the co-founder of Climate Health Now, which is a nonprofit, and she is extremely happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>The fact that they’re, dropping that and they’re settling this kind of I know it’s like a return to some semblance of sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Danielle also interviewed Heidi Taylor, who is a member of a new group based in Martinez that came about after an accident at the refinery in late 2022. They sort of activated and became politically active. And what Heidi said was, yeah, this is great, this is good, but we’re not going to give up and trying to keep the refinery accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/strong>You know, we do not trust the refinery. And so we want all measurements and all monitoring verified and we want it public. We want to be able to verify for ourselves what they are reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about the refineries? Ted, Chevron and the PBF owned refinery in Martinez? How have they responded?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Chevron said, yes, we’ve agreed to this settlement, but they also came out and took a couple of shots at the air District in a similar fashion that they did in 2021. They said, hey, we still have problems with the way that the Air District makes rules. We find these regulations, which are the most strict in our country, to make it hard to do business here. PBF energy, which owns the Martinez Refining Company, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>We’ve been working on this. The district has now looked at what we’re doing. We’re all in agreement that we’re eventually going to get there, and they’re not having to pay millions of dollars in the same way that Chevron is the only monetary thing that they’re going to have to pay to the Air district is the lawyers fees. They’ve dropped their suit, and they say, we’re looking forward to complying with the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know much of this seems to have happened in in the background and out of the public eye. Ted but do we know anything about why Chevron and Martinez Refining Company decided to drop their legal challenges to this rule, instead of continuing to fight back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>When reporters and editors like myself reached out to Chevron and PBF, we asked these questions. They’re issuing the same statement to different news organizations, and I’ve sort of just regurgitated what they’ve said. So I can only surmise why I think they might have given up on the legal effort. You know, I could guess that they thought, well, maybe this is going to last a really long time and maybe we’ll lose, and maybe that’ll be worse than, you know, just giving up our lawsuit and creating sort of a roadmap to eventually get to compliance. I don’t know. I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do you think, Ted, that this unprecedented win maybe lays the groundwork for more regulation of these refineries from here on out? Like, what do you think this means moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>I got the sense from the Air District news conference at Danielle Vinton attended that, you know, they feel that this is part of their mandate, you know, and it’s on their about a portion of their website that they are in charge of, of keeping the air clean. And I remember when before the board voted on this rule, many health advocates had said, you need to stay true to your mission. What I heard at the news conference on Tuesday morning was officials saying, this is our job. Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Ou know, I know that board members like Davina Hurt: and others that, you know, focusing on this kind of stuff is is why they joined the board. And it’s definitely part of their rhetoric. And I don’t see them, you know, slowing down. So I would say the leaders of it certainly talk that way. I don’t know what’s coming down the pike for like, you know, the next refinery pollution rule. This is a pretty significant win that, you know, I think could easily be a national headline because a local regulatory agency fought back big oil and one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Ted, thank you so much for breaking this down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Any time. It’s always fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Ted Goldberg, managing editor of news and newscasts at KQED. This 30 minute conversation with Ted was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Thanks as well to KQED climate reporter Danielle Venton for some of the tape that you heard in this episode. Music courtesy of the Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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On Tuesday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced that Chevron, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">which runs a 120-year-old refinery in Richmond, and the Martinez Refining Company have dropped lawsuits against a rule that will require them to drastically cut air pollution from their facilities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6808231882\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975650/bay-air-district-hails-decisive-victory-in-battle-to-cut-refinery-pollution\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Air District Hails ‘Decisive Victory’ in Battle to Cut Refinery Pollution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Regulating big oil can be hard. They’ve got hella money and lawyers to throw around. But this week, the local agency responsible for regulating air quality in the bay announced an agreement that requires the Chevron refinery in Richmond and the Martinez Refining Company to drastically reduce the bad stuff they let into the air, making it one of the strictest air pollution regulations in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>This is a pretty significant win that, you know, I think could easily be a national headline. You know, a local regulatory agency fought back Big Oil and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today I talked to KQED, Ted Goldberg, about why regulators are calling this a decisive victory in the battle to cut pollution in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>By July of 2026, Chevron and the Martinez Refining Company will have to reduce by a significant amount the amount of particulate matter their refineries emit into the air. At the headquarters for the Air District in San Francisco on Beale Street. Several high ranking members of the Air District brought reporters into room, basically to make this announcement and to talk about it at length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>The Air District has secured historic penalties and successfully defended our ground breaking rule six-five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Board member Davina Hurt, who is a member of the Belmont City Council, led the news conference announcing this historical change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>Pay unprecedented penalties and other payments of up to 138 million, agreed to measures to reduce flaring and establish a community air Quality fund that supports projects that reduce particulate matter emissions and exposures throughout the Richmond area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>You know, health officials and advocates have really described this as dirty air. The air District, four years before the board voted on this rule, looked into how much particulate matter both of these refineries put up into the air on a regular basis. They’ve done some calculations that says around 70% of the amount of particulate matter, once this rule is complied by would be reduced. And they say that could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And there are also fees associated with this new announcement too, right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So you’re supposed to comply by July of 2026 a specifically for Chevron. If we don’t by this particular date, they’re going to have to pay millions of dollars in fines. And then on top of that, as part of this larger sort of agreement, Chevron is paying to resolve hundreds of notices of violation going back years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>They’re also going to pay into a community fund that’s supposed to improve the lives of people who live near refineries, is focusing on air quality and health. And then they’re also going to pay, along with the Martinez Refinery Company, the lawyers fees for the legal battle that’s been going on since 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Was this surprising to you, Ted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Yes it was. Both of the companies filed lawsuits to challenge this rule that was voted on by the board of directors in 2021, and we were gearing up for a years long fight that abruptly ended. I’ve been trying to track the court hearings. When will we have the big trial over this major pollution rule? And they kept on getting delayed over and over again. And the next one was supposed to be late this month. And so I had it on my calendar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Okay, we’re going to reach out to the lawyers and maybe even send a reporter to the court hearing, because this is this big dramatic moment. They’re waiting. I had no idea. And basically, you know, here we have this huge oil company, Chevron Global, you know, one of the largest energy companies on the face of the earth deciding, you know, what? We might want to just give up on this lawsuit and end this legal battle and eventually comply with this anti-pollution rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk a little bit more about the backstory here, Ted, because I know many folks may have seen these refineries in Martina’s enrichment in the news because of accidents like these flaring or white ash falling from the sky in Martinez. But this isn’t what we’re talking about, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>No, this is a part of everyday operations for these two particular refineries. So as part of the refining process, crude oil eventually needs to turn into things like gasoline and jet fuel. There’s a lot of chemical processes that take place. One of those has to do with a major refinery component called the fluidized catalytic cracking unit. And basically, this is a part of the refinery that breaks down heavy crude oil into things like gasoline material that is sort of a byproduct of that process eventually has to be burned off. And when that is burned off, that’s when particulate matter gets sent into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Davina Hurt: \u003c/strong>Greg Nudd, deputy executive officer of science and policy of the Air District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greg Nudd: \u003c/strong>Particulate matter causes a number of health problems, from asthma to cognitive decline to poor birth outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>And a number of other people at the district have emphasized for years that particulate matter can lodge itself into people’s lungs and contribute to significant health problems, and can lead to premature deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Greg Nudd: \u003c/strong>It passes through the blood barrier and actually gets into your blood, gets into your brain. It’s definitely the most harmful air pollutant that we have. And the plume extend for miles and miles and impact over a million people. So we’re talking about people dying years before their time ticking away. Grandmas and grandpas from their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>In many of those communities, there are larger numbers of low income folks, larger numbers of people of color, and larger numbers of cases like asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I want to talk a little bit more about this rule and how exactly it’s supposed to, I guess, reduce these pollutions. Ted, what do Chevron and the Martinez Refinery Company have to do exactly in order to comply with this rule?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Initially, the refineries were supposed to bring in a different device that they don’t have in their refinery, called a wet gas scrubber. I believe there are other refineries that have this, and that is aimed at reducing the particulate emissions that come from the refinery. That is a very expensive piece of equipment. Martina’s refining company said it was so expensive before the board voted yes on this years ago that they might have to, you know, reduce the number of jobs they have and possibly shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Now, the two refineries are working on a number of different strategies that they’ve been in. Communication with the Air District about that is essentially convince the Air District that says, okay, we can see that they’re lining out these plans, particularly in the Martinez Refining Company, and we can see that they’re reducing emissions, and they’re on their road to eventually complying with the law by mid 2026. The idea here is they’ve created some technology or installed some technology into their refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>And at least at the Martinez Refining Company, they’re showing the air district, hey, look, see the numbers? They’re changing. And we think by this time we’ll be able to comply and we’ll keep showing you, you know, this data as we move forward. That was part of the agreement, especially with the Martinez Refining Company, that they will they will monitor this and that they will show the district, hey, we’re doing a great job. See how we’re complying with this law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, what health advocates and the oil companies have to say about the new air pollution rule. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What was the reaction from folks who have been fighting these refineries on this and were expecting to have a big public debate about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>My colleague Danielle Venton spoke to one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I’m shocked, and I don’t fully understand their motives, but I’m really glad. It’s hard to believe that. I’m not sure what the reasons are, but this couldn’t be better news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Doctor Ashley McClure is a primary care doctor and is the co-founder of Climate Health Now, which is a nonprofit, and she is extremely happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>The fact that they’re, dropping that and they’re settling this kind of I know it’s like a return to some semblance of sanity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Danielle also interviewed Heidi Taylor, who is a member of a new group based in Martinez that came about after an accident at the refinery in late 2022. They sort of activated and became politically active. And what Heidi said was, yeah, this is great, this is good, but we’re not going to give up and trying to keep the refinery accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/strong>You know, we do not trust the refinery. And so we want all measurements and all monitoring verified and we want it public. We want to be able to verify for ourselves what they are reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what about the refineries? Ted, Chevron and the PBF owned refinery in Martinez? How have they responded?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Chevron said, yes, we’ve agreed to this settlement, but they also came out and took a couple of shots at the air District in a similar fashion that they did in 2021. They said, hey, we still have problems with the way that the Air District makes rules. We find these regulations, which are the most strict in our country, to make it hard to do business here. PBF energy, which owns the Martinez Refining Company, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>We’ve been working on this. The district has now looked at what we’re doing. We’re all in agreement that we’re eventually going to get there, and they’re not having to pay millions of dollars in the same way that Chevron is the only monetary thing that they’re going to have to pay to the Air district is the lawyers fees. They’ve dropped their suit, and they say, we’re looking forward to complying with the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know much of this seems to have happened in in the background and out of the public eye. Ted but do we know anything about why Chevron and Martinez Refining Company decided to drop their legal challenges to this rule, instead of continuing to fight back?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>When reporters and editors like myself reached out to Chevron and PBF, we asked these questions. They’re issuing the same statement to different news organizations, and I’ve sort of just regurgitated what they’ve said. So I can only surmise why I think they might have given up on the legal effort. You know, I could guess that they thought, well, maybe this is going to last a really long time and maybe we’ll lose, and maybe that’ll be worse than, you know, just giving up our lawsuit and creating sort of a roadmap to eventually get to compliance. I don’t know. I don’t know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do you think, Ted, that this unprecedented win maybe lays the groundwork for more regulation of these refineries from here on out? Like, what do you think this means moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>I got the sense from the Air District news conference at Danielle Vinton attended that, you know, they feel that this is part of their mandate, you know, and it’s on their about a portion of their website that they are in charge of, of keeping the air clean. And I remember when before the board voted on this rule, many health advocates had said, you need to stay true to your mission. What I heard at the news conference on Tuesday morning was officials saying, this is our job. Y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Ou know, I know that board members like Davina Hurt: and others that, you know, focusing on this kind of stuff is is why they joined the board. And it’s definitely part of their rhetoric. And I don’t see them, you know, slowing down. So I would say the leaders of it certainly talk that way. I don’t know what’s coming down the pike for like, you know, the next refinery pollution rule. This is a pretty significant win that, you know, I think could easily be a national headline because a local regulatory agency fought back big oil and one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Ted, thank you so much for breaking this down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ted Goldberg: \u003c/strong>Any time. It’s always fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Ted Goldberg, managing editor of news and newscasts at KQED. This 30 minute conversation with Ted was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Thanks as well to KQED climate reporter Danielle Venton for some of the tape that you heard in this episode. Music courtesy of the Audio Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976076/bay-area-regulators-claim-big-win-against-richmond-martinez-oil-refinery-pollution","authors":["8654","258","11649","11802"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32080","news_424","news_227","news_2920","news_579","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11560608","label":"source_news_11976076"},"news_11968786":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11968786","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11968786","score":null,"sort":[1701801054000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"recent-fires-at-marathons-martinez-refinery-spark-major-safety-concerns","title":"Federal Agency Probes Marathon’s Martinez Refinery After Two Large Fires Last Month","publishDate":1701801054,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Federal Agency Probes Marathon’s Martinez Refinery After Two Large Fires Last Month | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has launched an investigation into Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez refinery after it was hit by two major fires last month, including one that severely burned a refinery worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CSB is sending investigators to Martinez,” Hillary Cohen, a spokesperson for the federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board confirmed the investigation on Tuesday, shortly after energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WoodMackenzie/status/1731965653639205224\">released a photo of the Nov. 19 fire\u003c/a> at the refinery, captured by infrared monitoring equipment near the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WoodMackenzie/status/1731965653639205224\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our Biofuels Production Monitor captured this fire just ahead of the planned start of its last renewable diesel unit,” the company said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/WoodMackenzie/status/1731965653639205224?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that fire, Jerome Serrano sustained third-degree burns to more than 80% of his body, according to a union official. Serrano has undergone at least two surgeries at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, and family members have been told he has a 10% chance of survival, said Tracy Scott, president of the United Steelworkers Local 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The family is pretty overwhelmed,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in which Serrano was injured followed a blaze on Nov. 11, according to a preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/Martinez-Renewables-Incident-2023-1111-72hr-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> that the company filed with Contra Costa County officials on Wednesday,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon officials have described both fires as facility-wide emergencies. The incidents occurred in a process unit part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marathonmartinezrenewables.com/\">plant’s conversion\u003c/a> into a biofuel refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 19 fire was more severe than the Nov. 11 episode. In addition to Serrano’s injuries, more than a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/bb8c2523ba69823988258a6c0031dcd7?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,marathon%20w3.calema.ca.gov\">workers were forced to evacuate \u003c/a>in the minutes after the fire erupted. The incident led to the release of more than 200,000 pounds of renewable diesel fuel, according to a separate preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/Martinez-Renewables-Incident-2023-1119-72hr-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Marathon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoke that drifted out of the refinery prompted an hours-long public health advisory from Contra Costa County officials. The episode has now led to four separate investigations — by state workplace regulators, the local air district, Marathon itself, and now, the federal chemical safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon managers told union leaders that the first fire, on Nov. 11, occurred during a failed start-up of refinery operations, according to the USW’s Scott. He says the second fire, which also took place during a start-up, was in a different part of the same unit.[aside label=\"more Bay Area refineries coverage\" tag=\"bay-area-refineries\"]The fires come months after Marathon began converting its Martinez facility into a biofuel refinery. Like the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, Marathon has shifted away from crude oil and begun processing vegetable oil and animal fats into biofuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott says union leaders and workers at Marathon have voiced concerns to the company about training and staffing at the refinery as it transitions. He says employees have told managers the refinery’s training program is deficient, that new workers were pressured to learn the controls too quickly, and that the facility is understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nothing changes, we will certainly experience this type of incident again,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon pushed back on that criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our training and staffing levels are based on industry standard practices and are regularly evaluated for effectiveness, quality and other measures,” the company said in an emailed statement Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our facility has a comprehensive training plan that requires all operations personnel to demonstrate proficiency in their roles before becoming qualified to work, including knowledge, skill and capability related to their specific unit,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups have sued Contra Costa County over the Marathon and Phillips 66 conversions, arguing that the county’s review of both plans was flawed. Greg Karras, an energy-transition consultant who is not involved in the lawsuit, says the fire is just the latest sign that the conversions are dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was entirely predictable,” Karras told KQED. “They’re repurposing old refining equipment for this new stuff, and they’re finding all sorts of things going wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Eric Smith, a Tulane University professor specializing in energy issues, says the refinery changes do not make the facilities more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Operators do need specialized training to avoid accidents, but with proper training, I would opine that they are no more dangerous than the other conventional units,” Smith said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blazes come amid recent increased attention on the safety of refineries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, air regulators issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/compliance-assistance/notices-of-violations/novs-issued\">four notices of violation\u003c/a> against Chevron after its Richmond plant had a major flaring incident that sent flames and a large column of smoke into the air, leading dozens of local residents to issue complaints to the local air district.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nAnd the other refinery in Martinez, the Martinez Refining Company, owned by New Jersey’s PBF Energy, has been the focus of multiple investigations since it released nearly 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals in November 2022. This week, Martinez residents filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpmlegal.com/media/news/15166_2023-11-28%20_1_%20Martinez%20Refinery%20Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit \u003c/a>against PBF over the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, state workplace regulators issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913837/state-issues-1-75m-in-fines-over-worker-death-at-valero-refinery\">$1.75 million in fines to Valero and three other companies\u003c/a>, alleging dozens of safety violations in connection with the death of a contract worker at its Benicia refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Marathon’s Nov. 19 fire, the company’s preliminary report says the fire erupted in a furnace in a renewable hydrodeoxygenation unit. Refinery operators shut down the furnace and then sent fuel to the facility’s flares to ease pressure in the unit. Marathon’s crews put out the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano, the worker injured in the blaze, was airlifted to the UC Davis medical facility in Sacramento. The USW’s Scott said the family has told him Serrano is unable to speak but is responding to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two online fundraising campaigns — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/friend-badly-burned-last-night\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/jerome-serrano-husband-father-brother-friend\">here\u003c/a> — have been organized to help Serrano and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on Friday, Nov. 1.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The two major blazes in November, including one that left a worker with life-threatening injuries, come months after Marathon began converting the facility into a biofuel refinery. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Federal Agency Probes Marathon’s Martinez Refinery After Two Large Fires Last Month","datePublished":"2023-12-05T18:30:54.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-05T19:12:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11968786/recent-fires-at-marathons-martinez-refinery-spark-major-safety-concerns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has launched an investigation into Marathon Petroleum’s Martinez refinery after it was hit by two major fires last month, including one that severely burned a refinery worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CSB is sending investigators to Martinez,” Hillary Cohen, a spokesperson for the federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents, said in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board confirmed the investigation on Tuesday, shortly after energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/WoodMackenzie/status/1731965653639205224\">released a photo of the Nov. 19 fire\u003c/a> at the refinery, captured by infrared monitoring equipment near the plant.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1731965653639205224"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“Our Biofuels Production Monitor captured this fire just ahead of the planned start of its last renewable diesel unit,” the company said in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/WoodMackenzie/status/1731965653639205224?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post\u003c/a> on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that fire, Jerome Serrano sustained third-degree burns to more than 80% of his body, according to a union official. Serrano has undergone at least two surgeries at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, and family members have been told he has a 10% chance of survival, said Tracy Scott, president of the United Steelworkers Local 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The family is pretty overwhelmed,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire in which Serrano was injured followed a blaze on Nov. 11, according to a preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/Martinez-Renewables-Incident-2023-1111-72hr-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> that the company filed with Contra Costa County officials on Wednesday,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon officials have described both fires as facility-wide emergencies. The incidents occurred in a process unit part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marathonmartinezrenewables.com/\">plant’s conversion\u003c/a> into a biofuel refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 19 fire was more severe than the Nov. 11 episode. In addition to Serrano’s injuries, more than a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/bb8c2523ba69823988258a6c0031dcd7?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,marathon%20w3.calema.ca.gov\">workers were forced to evacuate \u003c/a>in the minutes after the fire erupted. The incident led to the release of more than 200,000 pounds of renewable diesel fuel, according to a separate preliminary \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/Martinez-Renewables-Incident-2023-1119-72hr-report.pdf\">report\u003c/a> by Marathon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The smoke that drifted out of the refinery prompted an hours-long public health advisory from Contra Costa County officials. The episode has now led to four separate investigations — by state workplace regulators, the local air district, Marathon itself, and now, the federal chemical safety board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon managers told union leaders that the first fire, on Nov. 11, occurred during a failed start-up of refinery operations, according to the USW’s Scott. He says the second fire, which also took place during a start-up, was in a different part of the same unit.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more Bay Area refineries coverage ","tag":"bay-area-refineries"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fires come months after Marathon began converting its Martinez facility into a biofuel refinery. Like the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, Marathon has shifted away from crude oil and begun processing vegetable oil and animal fats into biofuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott says union leaders and workers at Marathon have voiced concerns to the company about training and staffing at the refinery as it transitions. He says employees have told managers the refinery’s training program is deficient, that new workers were pressured to learn the controls too quickly, and that the facility is understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If nothing changes, we will certainly experience this type of incident again,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon pushed back on that criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our training and staffing levels are based on industry standard practices and are regularly evaluated for effectiveness, quality and other measures,” the company said in an emailed statement Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our facility has a comprehensive training plan that requires all operations personnel to demonstrate proficiency in their roles before becoming qualified to work, including knowledge, skill and capability related to their specific unit,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups have sued Contra Costa County over the Marathon and Phillips 66 conversions, arguing that the county’s review of both plans was flawed. Greg Karras, an energy-transition consultant who is not involved in the lawsuit, says the fire is just the latest sign that the conversions are dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was entirely predictable,” Karras told KQED. “They’re repurposing old refining equipment for this new stuff, and they’re finding all sorts of things going wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Eric Smith, a Tulane University professor specializing in energy issues, says the refinery changes do not make the facilities more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Operators do need specialized training to avoid accidents, but with proper training, I would opine that they are no more dangerous than the other conventional units,” Smith said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blazes come amid recent increased attention on the safety of refineries in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, air regulators issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/compliance-assistance/notices-of-violations/novs-issued\">four notices of violation\u003c/a> against Chevron after its Richmond plant had a major flaring incident that sent flames and a large column of smoke into the air, leading dozens of local residents to issue complaints to the local air district.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nAnd the other refinery in Martinez, the Martinez Refining Company, owned by New Jersey’s PBF Energy, has been the focus of multiple investigations since it released nearly 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals in November 2022. This week, Martinez residents filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpmlegal.com/media/news/15166_2023-11-28%20_1_%20Martinez%20Refinery%20Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit \u003c/a>against PBF over the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, state workplace regulators issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913837/state-issues-1-75m-in-fines-over-worker-death-at-valero-refinery\">$1.75 million in fines to Valero and three other companies\u003c/a>, alleging dozens of safety violations in connection with the death of a contract worker at its Benicia refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Marathon’s Nov. 19 fire, the company’s preliminary report says the fire erupted in a furnace in a renewable hydrodeoxygenation unit. Refinery operators shut down the furnace and then sent fuel to the facility’s flares to ease pressure in the unit. Marathon’s crews put out the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano, the worker injured in the blaze, was airlifted to the UC Davis medical facility in Sacramento. The USW’s Scott said the family has told him Serrano is unable to speak but is responding to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two online fundraising campaigns — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/friend-badly-burned-last-night\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/jerome-serrano-husband-father-brother-friend\">here\u003c/a> — have been organized to help Serrano and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The original version of this story was published on Friday, Nov. 1.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11968786/recent-fires-at-marathons-martinez-refinery-spark-major-safety-concerns","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_20389","news_27626","news_28351","news_227","news_20455","news_20084","news_23007"],"featImg":"news_11968800","label":"news"},"news_11957461":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957461","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957461","score":null,"sort":[1691402410000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-martinez-more-residents-want-to-hold-the-refinery-accountable","title":"In Martinez, More Residents Want to Hold the Refinery Accountable","publishDate":1691402410,"format":"audio","headTitle":"In Martinez, More Residents Want to Hold the Refinery Accountable | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the morning after Thanksgiving last year, Martinez residents woke up and found a strange, white powder coating their neighborhoods. It came from the nearby refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will McCarthy from \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em> tells us what happened next, and how this incident spurred angry neighbors into action for the first time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8681595507&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local News to Keep You Rooted. Martinez is just one of a few cities in the Bay Area that you could call a refinery town. The Martinez Refining Company, owned by PBF Energy, is a huge facility, just a little bigger than Central Park in New York, and it’s been around for over a hundred years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now today, it employs between 600 to 700 hundred people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Will McCarthy, a reporter for the Mercury News. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of those people live in Martinez and the surrounding communities. So it’s been a part of this community for literally generations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s not just jobs. The refinery sends money to the city’s Chamber of Commerce. You’ll see signs of their brand around town at community events like this annual fun run that the refinery hosts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they’re definitely a presence in the community beyond just being an employer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that presence is being met with more and more skepticism these days. Residents are raising the alarm after several instances of ash and dust coming out of the refinery and raining down on the city. And they’re starting to push for some change. So today we’re going to talk with Will about a shift that’s happening in Martinez and why more residents want to hold the refinery accountable. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s kind of amazing that it all started on Thanksgiving night. It feels really sort of like poignant in that way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we were super excited to host all of our friends and family for Thanksgiving dinner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Heidi Taylor moved to Martinez about a year ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And unbeknownst to us, as they were leaving, they were being showered with heavy toxic metals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After people sort of went to bed after a pair of Thanksgiving dinners. The refinery emitted about 28 tons of metal laden dust called Spent Catalyst, which is a material that’s created during the refining process. It’s this white dust that people woke up to this sort of fine white layer of white sand blanketing their cars and porches and windowsills. You know, people were sort of confused as to what this was, obviously. And some folks started reaching out to the refinery and asking about it. The day after Thanksgiving, the refinery posted on Facebook and said they’d received calls about the dust, but that it was okay. And at least for some people, it just didn’t really think about it again for a while. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, so there’s this ash that was raining down from the sky. Residents are told that everything is okay. But then what happens next? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So within a week after that release, the county health department learned about it, actually not from the refinery, but from social media reports and from resident concern. And they alert residents within a week of the spent catalyst being released that it’s actually contains metals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honestly, I didn’t even know what these metals were. And then you start Googling things and you’re like, Oh my God, this is serious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aluminum, barium, chromium, exposure to heavy metals like this has been linked to nausea, vomiting, respiratory issues, immune system concern, dysfunction, cancer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next morning after Thanksgiving, there was an antique dresser in my front yard that I asked my husband and son to move over to the neighbor, and my son swiped his hand across the top and aerosolized all that dust. And I just had this recurring flashback of that that him doing that. And it just freaked me out that he breathed that in, that my husband breathed it in and that I was touching and disturbing that dust without ever knowing that it was there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it was also a concern because nobody knew exactly what the extent of the release was still or whether the soil was affected. In March, the Contra Costa County Health Department told residents living near the refinery that they shouldn’t eat any food grown in their gardens just until they were able to determine that the soil was not unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Geez, March. They mean that’s like months later. I would be pissed if I lived in Martinez, to be honest. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think people were pissed because I think that they felt like they had maybe already been failed by the refinery. Now they’re like, Wait, what? How are we hearing about this potential soil problem this much later? It definitely, I think, was like a tenuous time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You talked about how this refinery has always just kind of been like in Martinez. Like, no one really questioned it. How exactly does that start to change after all this? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that there had been over, you know, this 100 year history. There had been times that people were concerned about the safety conditions working in the refinery or where, you know, people spoke up. But I think there was also a sense that the refinery was a responsible partner. And I think that’s sort of been one thing that’s really changing in the immediate aftermath of this bank catalyst release, a group of, you know, really just five, five or six friends who were just trying to figure out what was going on. And this is something that Heidi Taylor talks about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a city council meeting after the event in early December, and there were a number of us who went in person and spoke. And outside of that meeting, I approached many people and just thanked them for speaking as they did to me. And a small group formed. And then we kind of found each other online. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People messaging back and forth, some who knew each other and some who, you know, just sort of knew each other through social media, asking what they could do and what the next steps were, but also asking how can we feel safe moving forward? How can we feel safe, you know, with our families? I think as that group has sort of grown and gained momentum and as people have become increasingly aware of the ways in which the refinery failed to notify them and sort of this safety record that they feel like is getting worse and worse, that has led to the group growing to now roughly, you know, roughly 100 people. It’s also changed, I think, the way that a lot of residents are interacting with the city and interacting with the refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We show up at city council meetings, we show up at the Board of Supervisors, Industrial Safety ordinance meetings. We show up at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District meetings. We are there to speak up and fight for Martinez. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, well, what do the people at Healthy Martinez want? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have a list of demands that include that Martinez are finding company, installs a wet gas scrubber and make any other necessary improvements in order to reduce daily emissions. Another one is to pay for the installation and maintenance of state of the art independent air monitoring systems within the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that we can access that data and know what we’re breathing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another big one is improved public communication and transparency from the refinery and then also for the refining company to reimburse residents, the city and the county for all expenses related to this bank that was released in November. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That shouldn’t fall on us taxpayers. That should fall on the Marcy Martinez refining Company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going back to the release in November. I mean, are residents safe? Is everything okay now with that incident? Like, have we closed the book on that? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think that they’ll ever completely know, you know, what the effect was in the moment. I’ve talked to residents who said that they have developed asthma after this exposure, but the soil was proven safe. And I think they announced that and do so, at least in that regard. It feels like this episode has, you know, a lid put on it. I think now it’s really more concerns about continuing the releases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a few weeks after the county health department declared the soil safe, the refinery released Coke dust into the surrounding neighborhoods, which is this black dust, which is sort of chemically similar to charcoal. They ultimately said, you know, this is not a concern. The chemical composition of that Coke dust is not such that people will have any long term health effects. But there are still questions that remained about, you know, at the time the amount of time it took for the refinery to to report those had happened. They still took a few hours before the county health department heard about it. And so the whole story almost started again where people were like, wait, how is this still happening? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is this like normal? I’m just supposed to accept being dumped on every single day. I will never allow that to be normal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I want to talk about what now? There are these five demands from healthy Martinez. Have any of them been met at this point? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of now, no. That man’s have not been met. And these investigations are still ongoing. So about, you know, a couple of weeks after that original release, I know the health department recommended the DEA conduct independent investigation of the refinery. I’m not sure exactly what the what the status of that now is. If the DEA is expected to file charges soon or not at all. In May, the FBI and the EPA announced that they were investigating these hazardous chemical releases as well. Those investigations are still ongoing to, you know, overall that the refinery, I do think, has taken a more proactive approach in communicating with the community. They’re definitely not combative. You know, I think that there is this real olive branch that’s being extended, but those words have to be backed up with the actions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what about this city, Will? Has this city done anything to help address residents’ concerns? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely. I think that Mayor Brianne Zorn, the relatively new mayor of Martinez, our sort of entire tenure has been marked in part by this release because she was sworn in not long after it happened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From my perspective, the county is holding them accountable for these actions. I think everyone has to understand that being held accountable under our legal system takes a little bit of time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I do think that she’s represented a change in perspective from the city as well in terms of what their expectations from the refinery are. She said that we’re essentially having to reestablish our relationship with the refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re all aware, as we, you know, get off the freeway and go to our homes that we live in a refinery town and we’re very aware of how much a shell previously and now MRC has contributed to our community with donations and sponsorships and all of that. And I think that’s why members of the public are so frustrated because of this event. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city is sort of taking matters into their own hands and just saying we want to know what’s going on there. Regardless of whether the county thinks it’s dangerous or not. We’re the ones who are actually living here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I walked out the next morning and I saw a thin film of dust on my car. And my Cammy is expecting to be notified when things like this happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, looking forward. Well, what questions are you going to be kind of asking and looking out for as you continue to watch what happens in Martinez? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest things are what are what are the results of these sort of swirling investigations? Are there going to be real penalties or is it going to be a slap on the wrist? And I think that will sort of launch this next phase of the relationship between the town and Martinez Refining Company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We talk about the shift that you see happening in Martinez between the community and its relationship with the refinery. From your reporting, what’s your sense of why that shift is happening? Why now? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There definitely is still an old guard who has lived there for a really long time and sort of has used the refinery. And now I think that they’re also new people who have moved to Martinez in part due to its relative relative affordability, because as this beautiful historic downtown and there’s a lot about Martinez that is really wonderful and has this really rich history and community. This is something that Heidi Taylor talks about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I spoke to a young woman who was pregnant when they just moved here from Berkeley, and she was lamenting that decision. And I said, no, no, no, don’t lament that decision. Join us and help us make this a healthier, safer community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People coming there are, you know, not willing to necessarily make that compromise that other people have made long ago and are asking for changes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we are attracting people who want to stay here, who want to make it better and to hold the refinery accountable and make them do better. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, there are things about Martinez, it sounds like that they feel are worth fighting for. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, definitely. I think that’s a good way to put it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, Will. Thank you so much for joining us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, thank you for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was Will McCarthy, a reporter for the Mercury News. This 40 minute conversation with Will was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. I pitched and produced this episode and interviewed Heidi Taylor. Allen Montecillo is our senior editor. Thanks also to KQED’s Forum for the tape you heard from Mayor Brianne Zorn. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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It came from the nearby refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will McCarthy from \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em> tells us what happened next, and how this incident spurred angry neighbors into action for the first time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC8681595507&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local News to Keep You Rooted. Martinez is just one of a few cities in the Bay Area that you could call a refinery town. The Martinez Refining Company, owned by PBF Energy, is a huge facility, just a little bigger than Central Park in New York, and it’s been around for over a hundred years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now today, it employs between 600 to 700 hundred people. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Will McCarthy, a reporter for the Mercury News. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of those people live in Martinez and the surrounding communities. So it’s been a part of this community for literally generations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s not just jobs. The refinery sends money to the city’s Chamber of Commerce. You’ll see signs of their brand around town at community events like this annual fun run that the refinery hosts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So they’re definitely a presence in the community beyond just being an employer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that presence is being met with more and more skepticism these days. Residents are raising the alarm after several instances of ash and dust coming out of the refinery and raining down on the city. And they’re starting to push for some change. So today we’re going to talk with Will about a shift that’s happening in Martinez and why more residents want to hold the refinery accountable. Stay with us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s kind of amazing that it all started on Thanksgiving night. It feels really sort of like poignant in that way. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And we were super excited to host all of our friends and family for Thanksgiving dinner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Heidi Taylor moved to Martinez about a year ago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And unbeknownst to us, as they were leaving, they were being showered with heavy toxic metals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After people sort of went to bed after a pair of Thanksgiving dinners. The refinery emitted about 28 tons of metal laden dust called Spent Catalyst, which is a material that’s created during the refining process. It’s this white dust that people woke up to this sort of fine white layer of white sand blanketing their cars and porches and windowsills. You know, people were sort of confused as to what this was, obviously. And some folks started reaching out to the refinery and asking about it. The day after Thanksgiving, the refinery posted on Facebook and said they’d received calls about the dust, but that it was okay. And at least for some people, it just didn’t really think about it again for a while. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, so there’s this ash that was raining down from the sky. Residents are told that everything is okay. But then what happens next? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So within a week after that release, the county health department learned about it, actually not from the refinery, but from social media reports and from resident concern. And they alert residents within a week of the spent catalyst being released that it’s actually contains metals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honestly, I didn’t even know what these metals were. And then you start Googling things and you’re like, Oh my God, this is serious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aluminum, barium, chromium, exposure to heavy metals like this has been linked to nausea, vomiting, respiratory issues, immune system concern, dysfunction, cancer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next morning after Thanksgiving, there was an antique dresser in my front yard that I asked my husband and son to move over to the neighbor, and my son swiped his hand across the top and aerosolized all that dust. And I just had this recurring flashback of that that him doing that. And it just freaked me out that he breathed that in, that my husband breathed it in and that I was touching and disturbing that dust without ever knowing that it was there. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it was also a concern because nobody knew exactly what the extent of the release was still or whether the soil was affected. In March, the Contra Costa County Health Department told residents living near the refinery that they shouldn’t eat any food grown in their gardens just until they were able to determine that the soil was not unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Geez, March. They mean that’s like months later. I would be pissed if I lived in Martinez, to be honest. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think people were pissed because I think that they felt like they had maybe already been failed by the refinery. Now they’re like, Wait, what? How are we hearing about this potential soil problem this much later? It definitely, I think, was like a tenuous time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You talked about how this refinery has always just kind of been like in Martinez. Like, no one really questioned it. How exactly does that start to change after all this? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that there had been over, you know, this 100 year history. There had been times that people were concerned about the safety conditions working in the refinery or where, you know, people spoke up. But I think there was also a sense that the refinery was a responsible partner. And I think that’s sort of been one thing that’s really changing in the immediate aftermath of this bank catalyst release, a group of, you know, really just five, five or six friends who were just trying to figure out what was going on. And this is something that Heidi Taylor talks about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a city council meeting after the event in early December, and there were a number of us who went in person and spoke. And outside of that meeting, I approached many people and just thanked them for speaking as they did to me. And a small group formed. And then we kind of found each other online. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People messaging back and forth, some who knew each other and some who, you know, just sort of knew each other through social media, asking what they could do and what the next steps were, but also asking how can we feel safe moving forward? How can we feel safe, you know, with our families? I think as that group has sort of grown and gained momentum and as people have become increasingly aware of the ways in which the refinery failed to notify them and sort of this safety record that they feel like is getting worse and worse, that has led to the group growing to now roughly, you know, roughly 100 people. It’s also changed, I think, the way that a lot of residents are interacting with the city and interacting with the refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We show up at city council meetings, we show up at the Board of Supervisors, Industrial Safety ordinance meetings. We show up at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District meetings. We are there to speak up and fight for Martinez. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean, well, what do the people at Healthy Martinez want? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have a list of demands that include that Martinez are finding company, installs a wet gas scrubber and make any other necessary improvements in order to reduce daily emissions. Another one is to pay for the installation and maintenance of state of the art independent air monitoring systems within the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that we can access that data and know what we’re breathing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another big one is improved public communication and transparency from the refinery and then also for the refining company to reimburse residents, the city and the county for all expenses related to this bank that was released in November. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That shouldn’t fall on us taxpayers. That should fall on the Marcy Martinez refining Company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going back to the release in November. I mean, are residents safe? Is everything okay now with that incident? Like, have we closed the book on that? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think that they’ll ever completely know, you know, what the effect was in the moment. I’ve talked to residents who said that they have developed asthma after this exposure, but the soil was proven safe. And I think they announced that and do so, at least in that regard. It feels like this episode has, you know, a lid put on it. I think now it’s really more concerns about continuing the releases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a few weeks after the county health department declared the soil safe, the refinery released Coke dust into the surrounding neighborhoods, which is this black dust, which is sort of chemically similar to charcoal. They ultimately said, you know, this is not a concern. The chemical composition of that Coke dust is not such that people will have any long term health effects. But there are still questions that remained about, you know, at the time the amount of time it took for the refinery to to report those had happened. They still took a few hours before the county health department heard about it. And so the whole story almost started again where people were like, wait, how is this still happening? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is this like normal? I’m just supposed to accept being dumped on every single day. I will never allow that to be normal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I want to talk about what now? There are these five demands from healthy Martinez. Have any of them been met at this point? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As of now, no. That man’s have not been met. And these investigations are still ongoing. So about, you know, a couple of weeks after that original release, I know the health department recommended the DEA conduct independent investigation of the refinery. I’m not sure exactly what the what the status of that now is. If the DEA is expected to file charges soon or not at all. In May, the FBI and the EPA announced that they were investigating these hazardous chemical releases as well. Those investigations are still ongoing to, you know, overall that the refinery, I do think, has taken a more proactive approach in communicating with the community. They’re definitely not combative. You know, I think that there is this real olive branch that’s being extended, but those words have to be backed up with the actions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And what about this city, Will? Has this city done anything to help address residents’ concerns? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely. I think that Mayor Brianne Zorn, the relatively new mayor of Martinez, our sort of entire tenure has been marked in part by this release because she was sworn in not long after it happened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From my perspective, the county is holding them accountable for these actions. I think everyone has to understand that being held accountable under our legal system takes a little bit of time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I do think that she’s represented a change in perspective from the city as well in terms of what their expectations from the refinery are. She said that we’re essentially having to reestablish our relationship with the refinery. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re all aware, as we, you know, get off the freeway and go to our homes that we live in a refinery town and we’re very aware of how much a shell previously and now MRC has contributed to our community with donations and sponsorships and all of that. And I think that’s why members of the public are so frustrated because of this event. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city is sort of taking matters into their own hands and just saying we want to know what’s going on there. Regardless of whether the county thinks it’s dangerous or not. We’re the ones who are actually living here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mayor Brianna Zorn: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I walked out the next morning and I saw a thin film of dust on my car. And my Cammy is expecting to be notified when things like this happen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, looking forward. Well, what questions are you going to be kind of asking and looking out for as you continue to watch what happens in Martinez? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest things are what are what are the results of these sort of swirling investigations? Are there going to be real penalties or is it going to be a slap on the wrist? And I think that will sort of launch this next phase of the relationship between the town and Martinez Refining Company. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We talk about the shift that you see happening in Martinez between the community and its relationship with the refinery. From your reporting, what’s your sense of why that shift is happening? Why now? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There definitely is still an old guard who has lived there for a really long time and sort of has used the refinery. And now I think that they’re also new people who have moved to Martinez in part due to its relative relative affordability, because as this beautiful historic downtown and there’s a lot about Martinez that is really wonderful and has this really rich history and community. This is something that Heidi Taylor talks about. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I spoke to a young woman who was pregnant when they just moved here from Berkeley, and she was lamenting that decision. And I said, no, no, no, don’t lament that decision. Join us and help us make this a healthier, safer community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People coming there are, you know, not willing to necessarily make that compromise that other people have made long ago and are asking for changes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Heidi Taylor: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we are attracting people who want to stay here, who want to make it better and to hold the refinery accountable and make them do better. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, there are things about Martinez, it sounds like that they feel are worth fighting for. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, definitely. I think that’s a good way to put it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, Will. Thank you so much for joining us. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Will McCarthy: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, thank you for having me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was Will McCarthy, a reporter for the Mercury News. This 40 minute conversation with Will was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. I pitched and produced this episode and interviewed Heidi Taylor. Allen Montecillo is our senior editor. Thanks also to KQED’s Forum for the tape you heard from Mayor Brianne Zorn. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Talk to you next time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957461/in-martinez-more-residents-want-to-hold-the-refinery-accountable","authors":["8654","11802","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_227","news_3111","news_2919","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11754056","label":"source_news_11957461"},"news_11952517":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952517","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952517","score":null,"sort":[1686267342000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"martinez-refinery-chemical-release-poses-no-long-term-hazard-tests-find","title":"Martinez Refinery's Chemical Release Poses No Long-Term Hazard, Tests Find","publishDate":1686267342,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Martinez Refinery’s Chemical Release Poses No Long-Term Hazard, Tests Find | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:10 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County health officials announced Thursday that soil testing conducted in the months after a Martinez oil refinery released nearly 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals last November has found no long-term health risks to residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Health Officer Dr. Ori Tzvieli said the county is immediately lifting \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0307-Safety-Advice-Near-Martinez-Refinery-Health-Advisory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a March 7 advisory (PDF)\u003c/a> that recommended residents refrain from consuming fruits and vegetables grown in soil that had received fallout from the Martinez Refining Company’s release. The refinery company is owned and operated by PBF Energy, based in Parsippany, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tzvieli said the soil testing and an associated risk assessment “confirms that the primary health risk from the spent catalyst release occurred in the initial hours and days after the refinery release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil-testing results were released to \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/hazmat/mrc/\">a community oversight committee\u003c/a> formed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892741/martinez-residents-seek-answers-on-toxic-refinery-release\">releases\u003c/a>, which occurred last Nov. 24–25, on Thanksgiving and the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tzvieli added during a media briefing that followed the committee meeting that because PBF failed to immediately notify officials about the release, questions remain about what health effects residents might experience because of their exposure to the toxic dust immediately after it settled on their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t able to do measurement in real time because we didn’t know this was going on until several days later,” Tzvieli said. “So had we been able to do measurement in real time, we would have been able to look at concentrations — what was in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the heavy metals in the dust, such as nickel, pose health concerns, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of those can have effects on the immune system, some of these metals can be carcinogenic. So it is a concerning incident,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he added, the inability to measure the November release as it was occurring makes it hard to distinguish the hazard the incident posed from the impact of ongoing refinery emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s why it’s hard to give people specific information about the risks that stemmed from this particular release,” Tzvieli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultants hired by the county analyzed soil samples from 14 sites stretching from El Sobrante to Benicia for more than a dozen metals that may have been associated with the release of 24 tons of refinery dust — material described as “spent catalyst” used in the refining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results for most of the heavy metals the samples were analyzed for, including aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc and chromium, all came back both within an expected regional background range and below residential health limits set by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Phillips, a toxicologist employed by consultant TRC, reported that samples of arsenic and lead were close to or exceeded state health limits at a handful of sites. But she added that the higher levels of those two toxic metals were probably unrelated to last November’s refinery release. TRC’s report will be made available to the public sometime in the next two weeks, and it will be open for comment for 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tony Semenza, Martinez resident and member of the oversight committee\"]‘One hundred ninety-four days after the release, we are now at the point where we’re telling people it’s OK to eat the fresh fruits and vegetables. The process is flawed.’[/pullquote]Matt Kaufmann, Contra Costa County’s deputy health director, emphasized that the investigation of the Martinez incident is far from over. The county has hired a consultant to perform an independent root cause analysis of the release, and county prosecutors are weighing potential charges against the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann criticized the refining company for failing to immediately notify local officials when the incident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The test results released Thursday “do not excuse the Martinez Refining Company for the lack of notification at the onset of this incident,” he said. “The lack of timely notification negated our ability as health officials to protect our community, including those most vulnerable, namely the medically compromised, the elderly and the children within our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PBF Energy spokesperson Brandon Matson said the company was “pleased” the county had released the soil-testing analysis and lifted its health advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The results are in line with our initial statements about the material,” Matson said. He also offered the latest in a string of apologies the company has offered to Martinez residents, saying the company has investigated the release, has identified corrective actions and is committed to implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Semenza, a Martinez resident serving on the oversight committee, expressed frustration that it has taken so long to assess the hazard posed by the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One hundred ninety-four days after the release, we are now at the point where we’re telling people it’s OK to eat the fresh fruits and vegetables,” Semenza said. “The process is flawed. This should have been done much quicker, a while ago. … I’m upset with the way the process works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Refinery Coverage' postID=news_11947977]The test results come less than two weeks after the FBI confirmed it has launched a joint investigation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency into the Martinez plant’s spent catalyst release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the refinery accountability group \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthymartinez.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Martinez\u003c/a> welcomed the largely reassuring test results, but expressed continuing misgivings about PBF and the refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful that the Thanksgiving release no longer poses serious danger and that Contra Costa Health has demonstrated leadership in this process, but I still don’t trust the refinery that didn’t report it,” said Martinez resident group member Jillian Elliott. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s results are only one piece of the larger issue,” said Heidi Taylor, a longtime Martinez resident and Healthy Martinez member. “It doesn’t change the fact that this oil refinery dumped toxic metals on our community (and) didn’t report it to county health.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy Martinez has also called on PBF to install improved emissions control and air monitoring equipment at the refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI agents and EPA personnel have gone door to door asking residents about their experience during and after the incident. The probe also has included circulation of an online survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez resident Wendy Ke said representatives from both federal agencies approached her late last month and asked a series of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was primarily, ‘Do you have photos, do you have videos, do you have factual documentation? Did you touch the spent catalyst? Did you see it?’” Ke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the morning after Thanksgiving, her neighborhood was coated with what looked like ash, as if there had been a major wildfire nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it did look a little bit different,” she said. “It didn’t have a light-weight ash to it, like flaky ash. It seemed a little more sticky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same morning, resident Zachary Taylor found his neighborhood covered in dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a consistent coating across everything, almost like a snowfall, like a light dusting, but then we go out across the street and absolutely everything is covered with it,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952523\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fine white powder collected on the edges and near the windshield wiper of a car shown in close detail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refinery dust known as ‘spent catalyst’ from the PBF Energy plant sits on a car windshield in Martinez in late November 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Encarnacion)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Refinery catalyst is a powdered chemical compound used in the process of breaking down crude petroleum into products like gasoline. Spent catalyst is the material left over after the high-temperature refining process and contains a mix of potentially hazardous components.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday’s test results were released, county health officials told Martinez residents that \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/MRC-Catalyst-Release-FAQs.pdf\">the dust that coated homes, vehicles, lawns, gardens and a nearby schoolyard included heavy metals (PDF)\u003c/a>, including aluminum, chromium, nickel, vanadium and zinc. The county health department said there could have been short-term respiratory problems from breathing in the dust right after the incident, and that potential long-term health impacts would depend on each person’s exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County hired TRC, a Connecticut-based consulting and engineering firm, to take \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/mrc/pdf/Proposed-Sample-Locations-2023-0427.pdf\">soil samples in 14 locations (PDF)\u003c/a> from El Sobrante to Martinez to Benicia. Those locations were chosen after local air regulators \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/1867499/Martinez-City-Meeting-MRC_Incident_Slides-v5.pdf\">mapped fallout from the release (PDF)\u003c/a>. Crews began collecting samples in May. Health officials say the samples were taken to a lab to see which health risks they might pose through touching, inhaling or consuming food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, months after the refinery accident, \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0307-Safety-Advice-Near-Martinez-Refinery-Health-Advisory.pdf\">the health department urged residents to refrain from eating food grown in soil that might contain the refinery dust (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also asked local prosecutors to file charges against PBF Energy. That request is under review, according to Ted Asregadoo, a Contra Costa County District Attorney spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asregadoo said the office is investigating whether PBF violated the law by failing to report an actual or threatened hazardous material release to county officials and whether the company made illegal discharges into the county stormwater system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials have emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2022/1130-Hazardous-Materials-Release-at-Martinez-Oil-Refinery.php\">they learned about the releases not from the refinery but instead from residents\u003c/a>. The refinery initially told residents that its testing suggested the release consisted of only nontoxic material. The company also offered free carwash vouchers to Martinez residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has said \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/incident-reports/2022/updated-incident-report-pbf-mrc-120922-draft-eg-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=26aa2da8823e4d11b06437a9be2e9717\">the release was caused by a malfunction (PDF)\u003c/a> within the refinery’s fluid catalytic cracking unit. The air district has issued 21 notices of violation against PBF in connection with the November release and continues to investigate the incident, according to district spokesperson Ralph Borrmann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF representatives have apologized for the releases, noting the company has cooperated with regulators and made changes to prevent a repeat of the Thanksgiving incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, some refinery neighbors say their sense of safety has been shattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point I feel very uncertain about what I’m breathing, knowing what the potential is for release on a daily basis,” said Ke, who has lived in Martinez for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"November 2022 incident spread nearly 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals over town, alarming residents and prompting advisory to avoid consuming food grown in soil affected by fallout. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Martinez Refinery's Chemical Release Poses No Long-Term Hazard, Tests Find","datePublished":"2023-06-08T23:35:42.000Z","dateModified":"2023-06-09T18:12:05.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"WpOldSlug":"martinez-refinerys-dust-release-poses-no-long-term-hazard-tests-find","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952517/martinez-refinery-chemical-release-poses-no-long-term-hazard-tests-find","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 6:10 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County health officials announced Thursday that soil testing conducted in the months after a Martinez oil refinery released nearly 50,000 pounds of powdered industrial chemicals last November has found no long-term health risks to residents in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa Health Officer Dr. Ori Tzvieli said the county is immediately lifting \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0307-Safety-Advice-Near-Martinez-Refinery-Health-Advisory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a March 7 advisory (PDF)\u003c/a> that recommended residents refrain from consuming fruits and vegetables grown in soil that had received fallout from the Martinez Refining Company’s release. The refinery company is owned and operated by PBF Energy, based in Parsippany, New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tzvieli said the soil testing and an associated risk assessment “confirms that the primary health risk from the spent catalyst release occurred in the initial hours and days after the refinery release.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soil-testing results were released to \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/hazmat/mrc/\">a community oversight committee\u003c/a> formed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892741/martinez-residents-seek-answers-on-toxic-refinery-release\">releases\u003c/a>, which occurred last Nov. 24–25, on Thanksgiving and the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tzvieli added during a media briefing that followed the committee meeting that because PBF failed to immediately notify officials about the release, questions remain about what health effects residents might experience because of their exposure to the toxic dust immediately after it settled on their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t able to do measurement in real time because we didn’t know this was going on until several days later,” Tzvieli said. “So had we been able to do measurement in real time, we would have been able to look at concentrations — what was in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the heavy metals in the dust, such as nickel, pose health concerns, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of those can have effects on the immune system, some of these metals can be carcinogenic. So it is a concerning incident,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, he added, the inability to measure the November release as it was occurring makes it hard to distinguish the hazard the incident posed from the impact of ongoing refinery emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s why it’s hard to give people specific information about the risks that stemmed from this particular release,” Tzvieli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consultants hired by the county analyzed soil samples from 14 sites stretching from El Sobrante to Benicia for more than a dozen metals that may have been associated with the release of 24 tons of refinery dust — material described as “spent catalyst” used in the refining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results for most of the heavy metals the samples were analyzed for, including aluminum, copper, nickel, zinc and chromium, all came back both within an expected regional background range and below residential health limits set by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Phillips, a toxicologist employed by consultant TRC, reported that samples of arsenic and lead were close to or exceeded state health limits at a handful of sites. But she added that the higher levels of those two toxic metals were probably unrelated to last November’s refinery release. TRC’s report will be made available to the public sometime in the next two weeks, and it will be open for comment for 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘One hundred ninety-four days after the release, we are now at the point where we’re telling people it’s OK to eat the fresh fruits and vegetables. The process is flawed.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tony Semenza, Martinez resident and member of the oversight committee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Matt Kaufmann, Contra Costa County’s deputy health director, emphasized that the investigation of the Martinez incident is far from over. The county has hired a consultant to perform an independent root cause analysis of the release, and county prosecutors are weighing potential charges against the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann criticized the refining company for failing to immediately notify local officials when the incident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The test results released Thursday “do not excuse the Martinez Refining Company for the lack of notification at the onset of this incident,” he said. “The lack of timely notification negated our ability as health officials to protect our community, including those most vulnerable, namely the medically compromised, the elderly and the children within our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, PBF Energy spokesperson Brandon Matson said the company was “pleased” the county had released the soil-testing analysis and lifted its health advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The results are in line with our initial statements about the material,” Matson said. He also offered the latest in a string of apologies the company has offered to Martinez residents, saying the company has investigated the release, has identified corrective actions and is committed to implementing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Semenza, a Martinez resident serving on the oversight committee, expressed frustration that it has taken so long to assess the hazard posed by the releases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One hundred ninety-four days after the release, we are now at the point where we’re telling people it’s OK to eat the fresh fruits and vegetables,” Semenza said. “The process is flawed. This should have been done much quicker, a while ago. … I’m upset with the way the process works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Refinery Coverage ","postid":"news_11947977"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The test results come less than two weeks after the FBI confirmed it has launched a joint investigation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency into the Martinez plant’s spent catalyst release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the refinery accountability group \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthymartinez.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Martinez\u003c/a> welcomed the largely reassuring test results, but expressed continuing misgivings about PBF and the refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m grateful that the Thanksgiving release no longer poses serious danger and that Contra Costa Health has demonstrated leadership in this process, but I still don’t trust the refinery that didn’t report it,” said Martinez resident group member Jillian Elliott. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s results are only one piece of the larger issue,” said Heidi Taylor, a longtime Martinez resident and Healthy Martinez member. “It doesn’t change the fact that this oil refinery dumped toxic metals on our community (and) didn’t report it to county health.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy Martinez has also called on PBF to install improved emissions control and air monitoring equipment at the refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI agents and EPA personnel have gone door to door asking residents about their experience during and after the incident. The probe also has included circulation of an online survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez resident Wendy Ke said representatives from both federal agencies approached her late last month and asked a series of questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was primarily, ‘Do you have photos, do you have videos, do you have factual documentation? Did you touch the spent catalyst? Did you see it?’” Ke said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the morning after Thanksgiving, her neighborhood was coated with what looked like ash, as if there had been a major wildfire nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it did look a little bit different,” she said. “It didn’t have a light-weight ash to it, like flaky ash. It seemed a little more sticky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same morning, resident Zachary Taylor found his neighborhood covered in dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just a consistent coating across everything, almost like a snowfall, like a light dusting, but then we go out across the street and absolutely everything is covered with it,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952523\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fine white powder collected on the edges and near the windshield wiper of a car shown in close detail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/060723-MARTINEZ-DUST-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refinery dust known as ‘spent catalyst’ from the PBF Energy plant sits on a car windshield in Martinez in late November 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anna Encarnacion)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Refinery catalyst is a powdered chemical compound used in the process of breaking down crude petroleum into products like gasoline. Spent catalyst is the material left over after the high-temperature refining process and contains a mix of potentially hazardous components.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday’s test results were released, county health officials told Martinez residents that \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/MRC-Catalyst-Release-FAQs.pdf\">the dust that coated homes, vehicles, lawns, gardens and a nearby schoolyard included heavy metals (PDF)\u003c/a>, including aluminum, chromium, nickel, vanadium and zinc. The county health department said there could have been short-term respiratory problems from breathing in the dust right after the incident, and that potential long-term health impacts would depend on each person’s exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County hired TRC, a Connecticut-based consulting and engineering firm, to take \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/mrc/pdf/Proposed-Sample-Locations-2023-0427.pdf\">soil samples in 14 locations (PDF)\u003c/a> from El Sobrante to Martinez to Benicia. Those locations were chosen after local air regulators \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/1867499/Martinez-City-Meeting-MRC_Incident_Slides-v5.pdf\">mapped fallout from the release (PDF)\u003c/a>. Crews began collecting samples in May. Health officials say the samples were taken to a lab to see which health risks they might pose through touching, inhaling or consuming food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, months after the refinery accident, \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0307-Safety-Advice-Near-Martinez-Refinery-Health-Advisory.pdf\">the health department urged residents to refrain from eating food grown in soil that might contain the refinery dust (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also asked local prosecutors to file charges against PBF Energy. That request is under review, according to Ted Asregadoo, a Contra Costa County District Attorney spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asregadoo said the office is investigating whether PBF violated the law by failing to report an actual or threatened hazardous material release to county officials and whether the company made illegal discharges into the county stormwater system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials have emphasized that \u003ca href=\"https://ccc.cchealth.org/press-releases/2022/1130-Hazardous-Materials-Release-at-Martinez-Oil-Refinery.php\">they learned about the releases not from the refinery but instead from residents\u003c/a>. The refinery initially told residents that its testing suggested the release consisted of only nontoxic material. The company also offered free carwash vouchers to Martinez residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has said \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/incident-reports/2022/updated-incident-report-pbf-mrc-120922-draft-eg-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=26aa2da8823e4d11b06437a9be2e9717\">the release was caused by a malfunction (PDF)\u003c/a> within the refinery’s fluid catalytic cracking unit. The air district has issued 21 notices of violation against PBF in connection with the November release and continues to investigate the incident, according to district spokesperson Ralph Borrmann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF representatives have apologized for the releases, noting the company has cooperated with regulators and made changes to prevent a repeat of the Thanksgiving incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, some refinery neighbors say their sense of safety has been shattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point I feel very uncertain about what I’m breathing, knowing what the potential is for release on a daily basis,” said Ke, who has lived in Martinez for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952517/martinez-refinery-chemical-release-poses-no-long-term-hazard-tests-find","authors":["258","222"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_2036","news_20389","news_20023","news_18543","news_227","news_20455","news_21107","news_226","news_29527","news_2920","news_26179","news_2919"],"featImg":"news_11952522","label":"news"},"news_11902622":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11902622","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11902622","score":null,"sort":[1643281208000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-did-a-184-foot-shipwreck-wind-up-grounded-in-the-carquinez-strait","title":"How Did a 184-Foot Shipwreck Wind Up Grounded in the Carquinez Strait?","publishDate":1643281208,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How Did a 184-Foot Shipwreck Wind Up Grounded in the Carquinez Strait? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There are always at least a few ships anchored out in San Francisco Bay, a reminder that shipping is and always has been a major part of this area’s economy. Today, those ships are full of consumer goods, wine and produce, but back in the day, San Francisco held a special place in the West Coast lumber trade. Our outgoing ships were full of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Cameron Tobey loves learning about our area’s maritime history. He went to the California State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo, works for a shipping company and comes from a long line of seafaring people. So, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MartinezHistoricalSociety/photos/a.245809702124343/6092036460834942/?type=3\">the Martinez Historical Society posted on their Facebook page that a low tide would reveal the skeleton of a shipwreck\u003c/a> off the coast of Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park, it’s no surprise that Cameron was eager to get a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just seems like a really random place for a ship to end up,” Cameron said. “What led to it ending up being shipwrecked out here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron.jpg\" alt=\"A female park ranger in uniform and hat stands next to a young man in a plaid shirt and cap. They pose in front of the remains of a very old shipwreck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay Regional Park District naturalist Virginia Delgado-Martinez and Cameron Tobey pose in front of the Forester shipwreck in Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cameron’s question won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious public voting round\u003c/a>, so I started digging into the ship’s history. The first thing I found is that in mariner lingo it’s not a “ship”; it’s a schooner. The sails run front to back, instead of side-to-side as was more common for ships built in England or New England. This ship’s name is the Forester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forester was built in 1900 at the Hay and Wright shipyard in Alameda for the shipping company Sanders & Kirchmann. A four-masted schooner, the Forester was 184 feet long and could carry 663 tons of cargo. It was a lumber schooner built specifically to carry Douglas fir trees felled in Washington, Oregon and Northern California down to San Francisco and then overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most ships on the West Coast were built near the lumber locations,” said Christopher Edwards, a park ranger at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. “So shipyards turning out vessels here in the Bay Area directly, that was usually times of a boom in the shipbuilding industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a green park ranger uniform with a brimmed hat poses for a picture sitting in the hold of a large wooden ship.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Ranger Christopher Edwards sits in the hold of the C.A. Thayer, a West Coast lumber schooner similar to the Forester. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. had just won the Spanish-American War and colonized the Philippines. Suddenly new markets were open to American businesses, and there was a boom in shipbuilding. Lumber operators on the West Coast were chopping down the old growth forests as fast as they could and there was steady demand overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forester traveled to places like Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Hawaii, delivering wood and picking up copper, coal and copra — a type of dried coconut meat that can be processed into oil — on the return journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to see a similar schooner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/ca-thayer-history.htm\">the C.A. Thayer is an intact three-masted West Coast lumber schooner\u003c/a>, part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park’s “floating collection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a large boat with four masts, all sails furled. She rides low in the water, but her bow cuts through the waves.\" width=\"288\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS.jpg 288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS-160x134.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forester riding low with a cargo of lumber. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Life on board the Forester\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While plenty of vessels sailed to similar destinations, the Forester was unique in that it had one captain its whole career: Otto Daerweritz, a Czechoslovakian immigrant. He owned a third of the schooner and loved it dearly. We don’t know much about the rest of his crew, but ship logs show that many of them were of Scandinavian descent. There also was almost always a Chinese or Japanese crew member on board, usually the cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cooking jobs at the time wasn’t much desired by Caucasian crew members,” explained \u003ca href=\"https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/rudolph-ng\">Rudolph Ng\u003c/a>, a professor of global history at the University of Portsmouth in England. “They were paid less and [it was] probably more physically demanding. So they were always left to either the Japanese or the Chinese.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian crew members suffered discrimination while sailing all over the world, but their experience was especially bad in California after the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. That law prohibited immigration by Chinese people into the U.S., which affected sailors longing for some time on shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Chinese were allowed to go on shore leave in San Francisco, or anywhere in California, for 30 days. But they had to pay a bond,” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each man would have to put up $500 in collateral for the right to leave the ship. If they didn’t come back within 30 days, they forfeited that money, Ng said. There wasn’t much in the historical record about how Chinese and Japanese crew members on board the Forester were treated, but given this historical context, it’s likely they faced similar discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only first-person account I could find of life aboard the Forester is from a Puerto Rican sailor named Oscar Gonzales, who sailed on the schooner around 1919. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">He shared his memories of the Forester with the Maritime Museum as part of an oral history project.\u003c/a> In his memory, Captain Otto Daerweritz was a good and fair leader. And, apparently, he provided the crew with good food. Gonzales said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Captain Daerweritz was short and stout. He was the best captain in those days that I ever sailed with … There was no trouble with the cargo on the voyage. Just the bugs. The copra bugs used to bother us during the night. They crawl all over and they bite … The food was very good for those days. We used to get fresh pork twice a week and eggs every other day. That was because we had about five dozen chickens on board … We had a very good cook, a good baker, and he used to make good bread.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>The end of the Forester’s sailing days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. imperialism in the Philippines may have created the economic conditions to build the Forester, but world events made the schooner obsolete. During World War I, the U.S. ramped up shipbuilding to support allies in Europe. At the end of the war, there was a glut of brand-new steam-powered vessels that commercial shippers could purchase cheaply. The steam-powered ships could carry more cargo and travel faster than most sailing ships. That spelled the end of the Forester’s international traveling days. By the mid-1920s, the Forester was out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1660px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11902683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man in a worn sport coat and newsies cap leaning on the rail of a ship. A mask and rigging can be seen in the background.\" width=\"1660\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester.jpg 1660w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Otto Daerweritz on board the Forester. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daerweritz bought out his partners’ share of the Forester for $8,000 and continued to live on the vessel. He anchored her in the Carquinez Strait at one point, protecting one of the piers of the Carquinez bridge from swift tides while it was being built. When construction was complete, he anchored in the Oakland Estuary for several years until he was asked to leave for getting in the way of shipping. At that point, Daerweritz towed the Forester over to Martinez and grounded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Forester’s final days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline is part of the East Bay Regional Park District. It’s a tidal marsh that protects the shore from storm surge and provides habitat for critters like the salt marsh harvest mouse. But in the 1930s and ’40s, this same area was a bustling community of fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1962px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cocohistory.org/frm-photos.html\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of fishing boats tied up in a creek with rustic buildings built in a marshland.\" width=\"1962\" height=\"1379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb.jpg 1962w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1920x1349.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1962px) 100vw, 1962px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italian fishing boats tied up in Alhambra Creek in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Contra Costa County Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing boats bob in the water, tied up to long piers stretching into the water. Behind them are the Martinez hills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing boats bob in the Carquinez Strait near Martinez, where the fishermen made their homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Italian immigrants actually came here and built their town,” said Virginia Delgado-Martinez, a naturalist with the EBRPD. “Definitely it was a community here. And there would have been work. There would have been stores, markets and a lot of trading going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captain Daerweritz settled into this community, living on his boat. He was still there in 1947 when Robert O’Brien, a writer for The San Francisco Chronicle, got curious about the schooner and went to check it out. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">He published this memory of the trip in an article titled “A Rainy Sunday Afternoon”\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[The Forester] makes a snug home for Captain Daerweritz. She’s wired for electricity, but has no water; he carries it on board from shore, and catches rain water for washing purposes. In the tiny, skylighted cabin off the sleeping quarters, there was the table at which we sat. On it were the paper he had been reading, a deck of cards and an ashtray from the Turquoise Room, Hotel Rosslyn, L.A. On the bulkhead over the table was a small painting of the Forester under full sail, done by an amateur, and the ship’s original clock and barometer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a sudden patter of rain on the skylight, and the captain got up at once. ‘Got to get my washing in,’ he said. ‘Should have had it in an hour ago.’ I followed him up the companionway and on to the deck. He hurried forward, took down a few shirts and towels from the clothesline and hung them up inside, over the stove in the galley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘What will happen to the Forester?’ I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘She probably will be burned up some day, like the rest of her kind. I’m the only friend she’s got left.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said goodbye a few minutes later, and he showed me over the side. The rain was coming in heavy gusts from the low gray sky. From the car, Benicia across the strait was dim in the low mist. The Forester, listing slightly to starboard, was dark against the green waters of the strait, and her four masts leaned dark against the sky.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1700px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/mtzforester/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view.jpeg\" alt=\"Through the trees a four masted boat can be seen tied up to a rickety pier leading out from the shoreline.\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view.jpeg 1700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-800x502.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-1020x640.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-160x100.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-1536x964.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forester as it might have looked when Robert O’Brien met Captain Otto Daerweritz on board. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daerweritz died on board the Forester not too long after this account. He was 83. In the 1950s, the Forester’s owner, a Mr. Charles Fitzgerald, donated many parts of the Forester to the Maritime Museum, including the complete foremast doubling (\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">there’s an account of how they did this in the Maritime Museum’s archives\u003c/a>). These were displayed at the Maritime Museum for a time and are still part of its collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Daerweritz predicted to the newspaper reporter, there was a fire aboard what was left of the Forester in the 1970s, although the cause is unknown. Rumors of an insurance scheme abound, but I couldn’t corroborate that story. Other people say it was an accident, kids playing around out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hike out to the Martinez shoreline at very low tide now, there’s a trail of bricks leading out to the wreck of the Forester. From shore, it’s hard to tell it’s a boat — it looks more like a broken-down pier — but Cameron, our question asker, went out there and climbed around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11902628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sticky looking mud in the foreground leads up to a line of rotted wood sticking out of the muck. Behind it in the distance a large ship passes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At low tide, the remains of the Forester poke out of the mud, barely distinguishable as a boat. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Virginia Delgado-Martinez said the groups of schoolkids she takes on tours to see the Forester like to pretend they’re Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people remember the Forester’s role in global history or her first and best friend, Capt. Otto Daerweritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The skeleton of a huge schooner sits in the mud off the Martinez coast. The life of this boat and how it came to be here says a lot about the role of San Francisco's shipping industry in the early 20th century.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700532912,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":2025},"headData":{"title":"How Did a 184-Foot Shipwreck Wind Up Grounded in the Carquinez Strait? | KQED","description":"The skeleton of a huge schooner sits in the mud off the Martinez coast. The life of this boat and how it came to be here says a lot about the role of San Francisco's shipping industry in the early 20th century.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How Did a 184-Foot Shipwreck Wind Up Grounded in the Carquinez Strait?","datePublished":"2022-01-27T11:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-21T02:15:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Bay Curious","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious","audioUrl":"https://dcs.megaphone.fm/KQINC6961451193.mp3?key=8fc65f4150c3c3bc99482a7c694b86c3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11902622/how-did-a-184-foot-shipwreck-wind-up-grounded-in-the-carquinez-strait","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are always at least a few ships anchored out in San Francisco Bay, a reminder that shipping is and always has been a major part of this area’s economy. Today, those ships are full of consumer goods, wine and produce, but back in the day, San Francisco held a special place in the West Coast lumber trade. Our outgoing ships were full of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Cameron Tobey loves learning about our area’s maritime history. He went to the California State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo, works for a shipping company and comes from a long line of seafaring people. So, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/MartinezHistoricalSociety/photos/a.245809702124343/6092036460834942/?type=3\">the Martinez Historical Society posted on their Facebook page that a low tide would reveal the skeleton of a shipwreck\u003c/a> off the coast of Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park, it’s no surprise that Cameron was eager to get a closer look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just seems like a really random place for a ship to end up,” Cameron said. “What led to it ending up being shipwrecked out here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902682\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron.jpg\" alt=\"A female park ranger in uniform and hat stands next to a young man in a plaid shirt and cap. They pose in front of the remains of a very old shipwreck.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-VirginiaCameron-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Bay Regional Park District naturalist Virginia Delgado-Martinez and Cameron Tobey pose in front of the Forester shipwreck in Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline Park. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cameron’s question won a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious public voting round\u003c/a>, so I started digging into the ship’s history. The first thing I found is that in mariner lingo it’s not a “ship”; it’s a schooner. The sails run front to back, instead of side-to-side as was more common for ships built in England or New England. This ship’s name is the Forester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forester was built in 1900 at the Hay and Wright shipyard in Alameda for the shipping company Sanders & Kirchmann. A four-masted schooner, the Forester was 184 feet long and could carry 663 tons of cargo. It was a lumber schooner built specifically to carry Douglas fir trees felled in Washington, Oregon and Northern California down to San Francisco and then overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most ships on the West Coast were built near the lumber locations,” said Christopher Edwards, a park ranger at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park. “So shipyards turning out vessels here in the Bay Area directly, that was usually times of a boom in the shipbuilding industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a green park ranger uniform with a brimmed hat poses for a picture sitting in the hold of a large wooden ship.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/ChrisEdwards-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Ranger Christopher Edwards sits in the hold of the C.A. Thayer, a West Coast lumber schooner similar to the Forester. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. had just won the Spanish-American War and colonized the Philippines. Suddenly new markets were open to American businesses, and there was a boom in shipbuilding. Lumber operators on the West Coast were chopping down the old growth forests as fast as they could and there was steady demand overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forester traveled to places like Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand and Hawaii, delivering wood and picking up copper, coal and copra — a type of dried coconut meat that can be processed into oil — on the return journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to see a similar schooner, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/ca-thayer-history.htm\">the C.A. Thayer is an intact three-masted West Coast lumber schooner\u003c/a>, part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park’s “floating collection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902681\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 288px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902681\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a large boat with four masts, all sails furled. She rides low in the water, but her bow cuts through the waves.\" width=\"288\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS.jpg 288w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/The-Forester-loaded-with-lumber-courtesy-of-MHS-160x134.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forester riding low with a cargo of lumber. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Life on board the Forester\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While plenty of vessels sailed to similar destinations, the Forester was unique in that it had one captain its whole career: Otto Daerweritz, a Czechoslovakian immigrant. He owned a third of the schooner and loved it dearly. We don’t know much about the rest of his crew, but ship logs show that many of them were of Scandinavian descent. There also was almost always a Chinese or Japanese crew member on board, usually the cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cooking jobs at the time wasn’t much desired by Caucasian crew members,” explained \u003ca href=\"https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/rudolph-ng\">Rudolph Ng\u003c/a>, a professor of global history at the University of Portsmouth in England. “They were paid less and [it was] probably more physically demanding. So they were always left to either the Japanese or the Chinese.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian crew members suffered discrimination while sailing all over the world, but their experience was especially bad in California after the U.S. passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882. That law prohibited immigration by Chinese people into the U.S., which affected sailors longing for some time on shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Chinese were allowed to go on shore leave in San Francisco, or anywhere in California, for 30 days. But they had to pay a bond,” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each man would have to put up $500 in collateral for the right to leave the ship. If they didn’t come back within 30 days, they forfeited that money, Ng said. There wasn’t much in the historical record about how Chinese and Japanese crew members on board the Forester were treated, but given this historical context, it’s likely they faced similar discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only first-person account I could find of life aboard the Forester is from a Puerto Rican sailor named Oscar Gonzales, who sailed on the schooner around 1919. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">He shared his memories of the Forester with the Maritime Museum as part of an oral history project.\u003c/a> In his memory, Captain Otto Daerweritz was a good and fair leader. And, apparently, he provided the crew with good food. Gonzales said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Captain Daerweritz was short and stout. He was the best captain in those days that I ever sailed with … There was no trouble with the cargo on the voyage. Just the bugs. The copra bugs used to bother us during the night. They crawl all over and they bite … The food was very good for those days. We used to get fresh pork twice a week and eggs every other day. That was because we had about five dozen chickens on board … We had a very good cook, a good baker, and he used to make good bread.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch3>The end of the Forester’s sailing days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>U.S. imperialism in the Philippines may have created the economic conditions to build the Forester, but world events made the schooner obsolete. During World War I, the U.S. ramped up shipbuilding to support allies in Europe. At the end of the war, there was a glut of brand-new steam-powered vessels that commercial shippers could purchase cheaply. The steam-powered ships could carry more cargo and travel faster than most sailing ships. That spelled the end of the Forester’s international traveling days. By the mid-1920s, the Forester was out of a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1660px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11902683 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of a man in a worn sport coat and newsies cap leaning on the rail of a ship. A mask and rigging can be seen in the background.\" width=\"1660\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester.jpg 1660w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-800x530.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Captain-Otto-Daeweritz-onboard-the-Forester-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Otto Daerweritz on board the Forester. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daerweritz bought out his partners’ share of the Forester for $8,000 and continued to live on the vessel. He anchored her in the Carquinez Strait at one point, protecting one of the piers of the Carquinez bridge from swift tides while it was being built. When construction was complete, he anchored in the Oakland Estuary for several years until he was asked to leave for getting in the way of shipping. At that point, Daerweritz towed the Forester over to Martinez and grounded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Forester’s final days\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now, Radke Martinez Regional Shoreline is part of the East Bay Regional Park District. It’s a tidal marsh that protects the shore from storm surge and provides habitat for critters like the salt marsh harvest mouse. But in the 1930s and ’40s, this same area was a bustling community of fishermen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1962px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cocohistory.org/frm-photos.html\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of fishing boats tied up in a creek with rustic buildings built in a marshland.\" width=\"1962\" height=\"1379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb.jpg 1962w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Italian-fisherman-forweb-1920x1349.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1962px) 100vw, 1962px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italian fishing boats tied up in Alhambra Creek in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Contra Costa County Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902685\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing boats bob in the water, tied up to long piers stretching into the water. Behind them are the Martinez hills.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Boats-floating-in-Strait-1920x1080-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing boats bob in the Carquinez Strait near Martinez, where the fishermen made their homes. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of Italian immigrants actually came here and built their town,” said Virginia Delgado-Martinez, a naturalist with the EBRPD. “Definitely it was a community here. And there would have been work. There would have been stores, markets and a lot of trading going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Captain Daerweritz settled into this community, living on his boat. He was still there in 1947 when Robert O’Brien, a writer for The San Francisco Chronicle, got curious about the schooner and went to check it out. \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">He published this memory of the trip in an article titled “A Rainy Sunday Afternoon”\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“[The Forester] makes a snug home for Captain Daerweritz. She’s wired for electricity, but has no water; he carries it on board from shore, and catches rain water for washing purposes. In the tiny, skylighted cabin off the sleeping quarters, there was the table at which we sat. On it were the paper he had been reading, a deck of cards and an ashtray from the Turquoise Room, Hotel Rosslyn, L.A. On the bulkhead over the table was a small painting of the Forester under full sail, done by an amateur, and the ship’s original clock and barometer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a sudden patter of rain on the skylight, and the captain got up at once. ‘Got to get my washing in,’ he said. ‘Should have had it in an hour ago.’ I followed him up the companionway and on to the deck. He hurried forward, took down a few shirts and towels from the clothesline and hung them up inside, over the stove in the galley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘What will happen to the Forester?’ I asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘She probably will be burned up some day, like the rest of her kind. I’m the only friend she’s got left.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said goodbye a few minutes later, and he showed me over the side. The rain was coming in heavy gusts from the low gray sky. From the car, Benicia across the strait was dim in the low mist. The Forester, listing slightly to starboard, was dark against the green waters of the strait, and her four masts leaned dark against the sky.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1700px\">\u003ca href=\"https://martinezhistory.org/mtzforester/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11902715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view.jpeg\" alt=\"Through the trees a four masted boat can be seen tied up to a rickety pier leading out from the shoreline.\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view.jpeg 1700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-800x502.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-1020x640.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-160x100.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/forester_long_view-1536x964.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Forester as it might have looked when Robert O’Brien met Captain Otto Daerweritz on board. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Martinez Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daerweritz died on board the Forester not too long after this account. He was 83. In the 1950s, the Forester’s owner, a Mr. Charles Fitzgerald, donated many parts of the Forester to the Maritime Museum, including the complete foremast doubling (\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/details/SeaLetter1962No3/page/n5/mode/2up\">there’s an account of how they did this in the Maritime Museum’s archives\u003c/a>). These were displayed at the Maritime Museum for a time and are still part of its collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Daerweritz predicted to the newspaper reporter, there was a fire aboard what was left of the Forester in the 1970s, although the cause is unknown. Rumors of an insurance scheme abound, but I couldn’t corroborate that story. Other people say it was an accident, kids playing around out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hike out to the Martinez shoreline at very low tide now, there’s a trail of bricks leading out to the wreck of the Forester. From shore, it’s hard to tell it’s a boat — it looks more like a broken-down pier — but Cameron, our question asker, went out there and climbed around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11902628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11902628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sticky looking mud in the foreground leads up to a line of rotted wood sticking out of the muck. Behind it in the distance a large ship passes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/Forester-wreck-w-ship.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At low tide, the remains of the Forester poke out of the mud, barely distinguishable as a boat. \u003ccite>(Katrina Schwartz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Virginia Delgado-Martinez said the groups of schoolkids she takes on tours to see the Forester like to pretend they’re Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people remember the Forester’s role in global history or her first and best friend, Capt. Otto Daerweritz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"baycuriousquestion","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11902622/how-did-a-184-foot-shipwreck-wind-up-grounded-in-the-carquinez-strait","authors":["234"],"programs":["news_33523"],"series":["news_17986"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_3631","news_27626","news_30567","news_227","news_30566","news_30565","news_29628","news_21131"],"featImg":"news_11902623","label":"source_news_11902622"},"news_11882195":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11882195","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11882195","score":null,"sort":[1626993258000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-vote-for-cleaner-air","title":"A Vote for Cleaner Air","publishDate":1626993258,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11882207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing the CEOs of Chevron and PBF Energy atop billions of dollars while they look at air pollution devices that cost around $250 million. The Chevron CEO says, \"how will we ever afford them?\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-800x557.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-1020x710.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-160x111.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-1536x1069.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorerefineryscrubbers\">voted to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and PBF Energy's refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to dramatically cut down the particulate matter they emit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both corporations, of course, were up in arms about the cost of installing the scrubbing devices that will allow them to meet the new requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators estimated the cost of the wet gas scrubbers to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-nearing-vote-drastically-cut-refinery-pollution-with-new-tech-2021-06-15/\">around $250 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a lot of money, unless your annual revenues are measured in the billions: over $94 billion for Chevron and $15 billion for PBF Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems like a small price to pay for helping to keep people in the surrounding communities alive and healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Air regulators at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and PBF Energy's refinery in Martinez to dramatically cut down the particulate matter they emit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626994016,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":121},"headData":{"title":"A Vote for Cleaner Air | KQED","description":"Air regulators at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and PBF Energy's refinery in Martinez to dramatically cut down the particulate matter they emit.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Vote for Cleaner Air","datePublished":"2021-07-22T22:34:18.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-22T22:46:56.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11882195 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11882195","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/22/a-vote-for-cleaner-air/","disqusTitle":"A Vote for Cleaner Air","path":"/news/11882195/a-vote-for-cleaner-air","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11882207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon showing the CEOs of Chevron and PBF Energy atop billions of dollars while they look at air pollution devices that cost around $250 million. The Chevron CEO says, \"how will we ever afford them?\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-800x557.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-1020x710.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-160x111.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/afford_072221_final-1536x1069.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorerefineryscrubbers\">voted to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and PBF Energy's refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to dramatically cut down the particulate matter they emit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both corporations, of course, were up in arms about the cost of installing the scrubbing devices that will allow them to meet the new requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators estimated the cost of the wet gas scrubbers to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/san-francisco-nearing-vote-drastically-cut-refinery-pollution-with-new-tech-2021-06-15/\">around $250 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a lot of money, unless your annual revenues are measured in the billions: over $94 billion for Chevron and $15 billion for PBF Energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That seems like a small price to pay for helping to keep people in the surrounding communities alive and healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11882195/a-vote-for-cleaner-air","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_13"],"tags":["news_20628","news_424","news_4223","news_29152","news_20949","news_227","news_29527","news_579"],"featImg":"news_11882207","label":"news_18515"},"news_11844318":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11844318","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11844318","score":null,"sort":[1604052012000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-seeds-of-activism-in-martinez","title":"The Seeds of Activism in Martinez","publishDate":1604052012,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The Seeds of Activism in Martinez | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Martinez isn’t known for its activism. But after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May, and after a white couple defaced a Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, many residents decided it was time for that to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’ve started a conversation about race in Martinez that hasn’t really happened in public before. That conversation has been difficult, especially with local leaders — but activists say this is just the beginning of a long struggle to build the Martinez they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Guest\u003c/b>: Devin Katayama, The Bay host and reporter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This episode is part of how protests on policing and racial justice are showing up on Bay Area ballots and beyond. Click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843922/the-police-shooting-that-motivated-walnut-creek-residents-to-run-for-city-council\">here\u003c/a> to listen to the story of the local police shooting at the center of this year’s city council race in Walnut Creek.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700693806,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":147},"headData":{"title":"The Seeds of Activism in Martinez | KQED","description":"Martinez isn't known for its activism. But after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May, and after a white couple defaced a Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, many residents decided it was time for that to change. 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But after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May, and after a white couple defaced a Black Lives Matter mural in Martinez, many residents decided it was time for that to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’ve started a conversation about race in Martinez that hasn’t really happened in public before. That conversation has been difficult, especially with local leaders — but activists say this is just the beginning of a long struggle to build the Martinez they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Guest\u003c/b>: Devin Katayama, The Bay host and reporter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This episode is part of how protests on policing and racial justice are showing up on Bay Area ballots and beyond. Click \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843922/the-police-shooting-that-motivated-walnut-creek-residents-to-run-for-city-council\">here\u003c/a> to listen to the story of the local police shooting at the center of this year’s city council race in Walnut Creek.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11844318/the-seeds-of-activism-in-martinez","authors":["8654","7240","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_28756","news_227","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11844327","label":"source_news_11844318"},"news_11831708":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11831708","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11831708","score":null,"sort":[1596495117000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cleaner-air-painful-layoffs","title":"Cleaner Air, Painful Layoffs","publishDate":1596495117,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at the Marathon refinery in Martinez are set to \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioremarathonrefinery\">lose their jobs\u003c/a> at California's fourth-largest refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry has taken a big hit amid the current COVID-19 world of sticking close to home and continuing economic decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I rejoice at there being one less polluting refinery in the Bay Area, that doesn't help the hundreds of workers (thousands if you include contractors) shown the door by Marathon Petroleum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If only that much-heralded transition to a green economy had begun in earnest before the shock of a coronavirus-stalled economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hundreds of workers at the Marathon refinery in Martinez are set to lose their jobs at California's fourth-largest refinery. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cleaner Air, Painful Layoffs","datePublished":"2020-08-03T22:51:57.000Z","dateModified":"2020-08-03T22:51:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11831708 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11831708","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/03/cleaner-air-painful-layoffs/","disqusTitle":"Cleaner Air, Painful Layoffs","path":"/news/11831708/cleaner-air-painful-layoffs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at the Marathon refinery in Martinez are set to \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioremarathonrefinery\">lose their jobs\u003c/a> at California's fourth-largest refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry has taken a big hit amid the current COVID-19 world of sticking close to home and continuing economic decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I rejoice at there being one less polluting refinery in the Bay Area, that doesn't help the hundreds of workers (thousands if you include contractors) shown the door by Marathon Petroleum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If only that much-heralded transition to a green economy had begun in earnest before the shock of a coronavirus-stalled economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11831708/cleaner-air-painful-layoffs","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_1397"],"tags":["news_27350","news_27504","news_352","news_28351","news_20949","news_227","news_3111","news_21390"],"featImg":"news_11831716","label":"news_18515"},"news_11831607":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11831607","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11831607","score":null,"sort":[1596455271000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shutdown-of-marathons-martinez-refinery-prompts-calls-for-just-transition-for-oil-workers","title":"Shutdown of Marathon's Martinez Refinery Prompts Calls for 'Just Transition' for Oil Workers","publishDate":1596455271,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Elected officials, union leaders, industry representatives and environmentalists are expressing concern about the hundreds of workers set to lose their jobs at California's fourth-largest refinery in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's after Marathon Petroleum announced over the weekend that it plans a permanent halt to processing crude oil at its Martinez plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The decommissioning of the Marathon refinery means the loss of thousands of good paying, California blue collar jobs at a time of great economic uncertainty,\" said Robbie Hunter, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California, which represents thousands of people who work at the plant in the course of a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon executives told employees at its Contra Costa County and Gallup, New Mexico, refineries on Friday that it plans to cut workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will indefinitely idle these facilities with no plans to restart normal operations,\" the company said on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.marathonpetroleum.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had idled both refineries in April after shelter-at-home orders drastically cut demand for gasoline and jet fuel. That meant processing units at the plants stopped making transportation fuels and other refined products. For months the refineries have been maintained in \"standby\" mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Friday announcement means \"most jobs at these refineries will no longer be necessary, and we expect to begin a phased reduction of staffing levels in October\" the company said on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon employs 740 staff workers at its Martinez refinery, which has gone through \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/facilities/tesoro.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several owners and name changes\u003c/a>. It was formerly known as the Tesoro, Golden Eagle, Tosco Avon and Phillips Avon refinery. Marathon bought the facility in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the full-time employees, the refinery relies on between 250 and 2,500 contract workers depending on operational needs, according to Marathon representative Patricia Deutsche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is also the 'multiplier' effect. They say for every one refinery job there are eight in the community that support that,\" Deutsche said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This move is a big loss for our workforce and potentially the economy,\" said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, who represents Martinez and has been a longtime advocate for refinery safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said that before the coronavirus pandemic and the oil industry downturn, he began bringing together labor unions, environmental groups and local governments to prepare for a shift to green energy in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The transition needs to be as successful as possible for everyone and we cannot leave workers behind — they need to be guaranteed meaningful and comparable work,\" DeSaulnier said in an emailed statement Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for a leading trade group that represents the oil industry in California said he feels for the local economy that relies on the refinery, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/californias-petroleum-market/californias-oil-refineries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which can process about 160,000 barrels of crude per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, this impacts a lot of people, families and the community and we are concerned for them,\" said Kevin Slagle, a representative for the Western States Petroleum Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has seen its share of incidents. The worst in the last decade took place in February 2014, when the facility was run by Tesoro. Two workers were burned and 84,000 pounds of sulfuric acid were released. A month later sulfuric acid sprayed and burned two contract workers, leading to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-final-report-on-facility-safety-culture-following-a-series-of-sulfuric-acid-releases-at-the-tesoro-martinez-refinery-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> by the U.S Chemical Safety Board that raised concerns about the refinery's safety culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Bay Area's other four refineries — Valero in Benicia, Chevron in Richmond, PBF Energy in Martinez and Phillips 66 in Rodeo — the facility has had to send gases to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/graphs/flare-emissions-charts/2019/frequency_of_flaring_2019-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flares\u003c/a> scores of times over the years, many times to deal with malfunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local environmentalists who've been critical of the region's oil industry say it's time for the refinery, its dangers and pollution to go away, but the change should include a plan for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what an unplanned transition looks like,\" said Greg Karras with Community Energy reSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's \"the tip of the iceberg for why we need a planned, just transition to sustainable energy and a livable climate,\" Karras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmentalists and union advocates have used the term \"just transition\" to explain a fair way of getting fossil fuel industry workers and their surrounding communities, businesses and local governments to move into a green energy economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the air quality benefits of a refinery shutting down are welcome but expressed concern about workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Communities near this dangerous refinery can breathe a little easier now that operations have halted, but the state desperately needs a just transition plan that protects workers when oil companies toss their employees to the curb with little warning,\" Kretzmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon says its Martinez refinery will be converted to an oil storage facility. The company says it's considering turning the facility into a renewable diesel facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Marathon refinery's (potential) conversion into a renewable diesel facility is a forecast of the future as the demand for fossil fuels declines over time, resulting in healthier air and reduced greenhouse gas emissions,\" said Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will see more future refinery closures as a result of continued decreasing consumption of fossil fuels under California's policies transitioning our transportation system to zero emission,\" said Gioia, who sits on the the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board and the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to immediately start addressing a just transition for these workers as more fossil fuel facilities close,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon's decision to end oil processing at its Martinez plant is the latest piece of evidence showing California's oil industry suffering under a pandemic that's led to severe drops in fuel demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Ramon-based Chevron, one of the world's largest oil companies, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/investors/press-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its worst quarter\u003c/a> in decades on Friday. The company said it lost more than $8 billion during the three months ending June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the oil majors have been clobbered by COVID,\" said David Hackett, president of Stillwater Associates, a firm that specializes in analyzing the transportation fuels market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Resources Corporation, one of the state's largest oil producers,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829255/major-california-oil-producer-falls-victim-to-collapse-in-crude-prices-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818575/newsom-kills-proposal-to-add-oil-regulators-even-though-industry-would-have-paid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granted a request\u003c/a> by another oil trade group, the California Independent Petroleum Association, to drop a proposal to add dozens of staff members to the agency that oversees oil and gas drilling that would have cost the industry $24 million. State regulators also agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817384/with-oil-industry-in-slump-state-offers-a-break-on-some-well-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">postpone a deadline for oil and gas producers\u003c/a> to pay fees and submit plans to manage thousands of idle oil wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, PBF Energy, the New Jersey-based company that bought Shell's refinery in Martinez, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810439/coronavirus-prompts-martinez-refinery-to-cut-back-sell-hydrogen-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sold two hydrogen plants\u003c/a> at the facility for hundreds of millions of dollars — a move aimed at cutting costs and raising revenue to deal with fuel demand drops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, more than 1,000 contract electricians, pipefitters and other skilled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813844/unions-say-bay-area-refineries-have-dismissed-more-than-1000-contract-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workers were cut from Bay Area refineries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hundreds of refinery workers are set to lose their jobs in the coming months. 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That meant processing units at the plants stopped making transportation fuels and other refined products. For months the refineries have been maintained in \"standby\" mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Friday announcement means \"most jobs at these refineries will no longer be necessary, and we expect to begin a phased reduction of staffing levels in October\" the company said on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon employs 740 staff workers at its Martinez refinery, which has gone through \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/facilities/tesoro.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several owners and name changes\u003c/a>. It was formerly known as the Tesoro, Golden Eagle, Tosco Avon and Phillips Avon refinery. Marathon bought the facility in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the full-time employees, the refinery relies on between 250 and 2,500 contract workers depending on operational needs, according to Marathon representative Patricia Deutsche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is also the 'multiplier' effect. They say for every one refinery job there are eight in the community that support that,\" Deutsche said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This move is a big loss for our workforce and potentially the economy,\" said Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, who represents Martinez and has been a longtime advocate for refinery safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said that before the coronavirus pandemic and the oil industry downturn, he began bringing together labor unions, environmental groups and local governments to prepare for a shift to green energy in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The transition needs to be as successful as possible for everyone and we cannot leave workers behind — they need to be guaranteed meaningful and comparable work,\" DeSaulnier said in an emailed statement Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for a leading trade group that represents the oil industry in California said he feels for the local economy that relies on the refinery, \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/californias-petroleum-market/californias-oil-refineries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which can process about 160,000 barrels of crude per day\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously, this impacts a lot of people, families and the community and we are concerned for them,\" said Kevin Slagle, a representative for the Western States Petroleum Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has seen its share of incidents. The worst in the last decade took place in February 2014, when the facility was run by Tesoro. Two workers were burned and 84,000 pounds of sulfuric acid were released. A month later sulfuric acid sprayed and burned two contract workers, leading to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-final-report-on-facility-safety-culture-following-a-series-of-sulfuric-acid-releases-at-the-tesoro-martinez-refinery-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigation\u003c/a> by the U.S Chemical Safety Board that raised concerns about the refinery's safety culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the Bay Area's other four refineries — Valero in Benicia, Chevron in Richmond, PBF Energy in Martinez and Phillips 66 in Rodeo — the facility has had to send gases to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/graphs/flare-emissions-charts/2019/frequency_of_flaring_2019-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flares\u003c/a> scores of times over the years, many times to deal with malfunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local environmentalists who've been critical of the region's oil industry say it's time for the refinery, its dangers and pollution to go away, but the change should include a plan for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what an unplanned transition looks like,\" said Greg Karras with Community Energy reSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's \"the tip of the iceberg for why we need a planned, just transition to sustainable energy and a livable climate,\" Karras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmentalists and union advocates have used the term \"just transition\" to explain a fair way of getting fossil fuel industry workers and their surrounding communities, businesses and local governments to move into a green energy economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the air quality benefits of a refinery shutting down are welcome but expressed concern about workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Communities near this dangerous refinery can breathe a little easier now that operations have halted, but the state desperately needs a just transition plan that protects workers when oil companies toss their employees to the curb with little warning,\" Kretzmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon says its Martinez refinery will be converted to an oil storage facility. The company says it's considering turning the facility into a renewable diesel facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Marathon refinery's (potential) conversion into a renewable diesel facility is a forecast of the future as the demand for fossil fuels declines over time, resulting in healthier air and reduced greenhouse gas emissions,\" said Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will see more future refinery closures as a result of continued decreasing consumption of fossil fuels under California's policies transitioning our transportation system to zero emission,\" said Gioia, who sits on the the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board and the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to immediately start addressing a just transition for these workers as more fossil fuel facilities close,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marathon's decision to end oil processing at its Martinez plant is the latest piece of evidence showing California's oil industry suffering under a pandemic that's led to severe drops in fuel demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Ramon-based Chevron, one of the world's largest oil companies, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/investors/press-releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its worst quarter\u003c/a> in decades on Friday. The company said it lost more than $8 billion during the three months ending June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the oil majors have been clobbered by COVID,\" said David Hackett, president of Stillwater Associates, a firm that specializes in analyzing the transportation fuels market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the California Resources Corporation, one of the state's largest oil producers,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11829255/major-california-oil-producer-falls-victim-to-collapse-in-crude-prices-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11818575/newsom-kills-proposal-to-add-oil-regulators-even-though-industry-would-have-paid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granted a request\u003c/a> by another oil trade group, the California Independent Petroleum Association, to drop a proposal to add dozens of staff members to the agency that oversees oil and gas drilling that would have cost the industry $24 million. State regulators also agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817384/with-oil-industry-in-slump-state-offers-a-break-on-some-well-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">postpone a deadline for oil and gas producers\u003c/a> to pay fees and submit plans to manage thousands of idle oil wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, PBF Energy, the New Jersey-based company that bought Shell's refinery in Martinez, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810439/coronavirus-prompts-martinez-refinery-to-cut-back-sell-hydrogen-plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sold two hydrogen plants\u003c/a> at the facility for hundreds of millions of dollars — a move aimed at cutting costs and raising revenue to deal with fuel demand drops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, more than 1,000 contract electricians, pipefitters and other skilled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813844/unions-say-bay-area-refineries-have-dismissed-more-than-1000-contract-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">workers were cut from Bay Area refineries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11831607/shutdown-of-marathons-martinez-refinery-prompts-calls-for-just-transition-for-oil-workers","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_356","news_1397"],"tags":["news_27626","news_28351","news_227","news_21390","news_21107"],"featImg":"news_11024100","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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