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That marks the highest penalty agreement the energy giant has ever made with the air district, according to Philip Fine, the agency’s executive officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This a new era of enforcement and holding facilities accountable,” Fine told the Richmond City Council on Feb. 27. “They need to feel these penalties in order to incentivize them to stay in compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal resolves all of the air district’s open enforcement actions with Chevron that took place between 2019 and June 30, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11975650]“We believe this resolution will allow us to turn our full focus on the future safe and reliable operation of our facility,” Chevron said in a statement sent by company spokesperson Caitlin Powell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials told KQED 105 of the violations Chevron settled are tied to eight major incidents at the refinery over the last five years. They include several cases in which refinery components malfunctioned, leading to flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\">Flaring operations\u003c/a> take place when refineries send gasses to their flares to reduce pressure inside the facilities during malfunctions as well as start-up and shutdown operations. Oil industry officials have emphasized that the practice is a way to prevent more serious and possibly dangerous accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the flaring operations involved in the settlement released significant amounts of toxic gas into the air above the Richmond area. In several of these incidents, nearby residents could see black smoke and fire bursting into the sky, with some calling the air district to complain. Those cases garnered a significant amount of news coverage and social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say 71 of the violations are connected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894150/chevron-refinery-malfunction-during-storm-shut-down-processing-units-causing-fire-and-toxic-flaring\">several days of pollution releases from the Richmond refinery that began Oct. 24, 2021\u003c/a>, when one of the Bay Area’s strongest storms in recent years brought significant rain to the region. The refinery sustained a series of malfunctions that led to three days of flaring and significant concerns by Richmond area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the releases started, the City Council asked Chevron executives to explain what happened in a public hearing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\">Residents who showed up to the virtual meeting left upset\u003c/a>. They complained that company representatives did not have an explanation for what caused the major refinery malfunction. One of them, Randy Joseph, told the council and the company that he learned nothing from the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11895438]Reached two and a half years later, on the heels of the deal that essentially closes the book on that accident, Joseph said his dissatisfaction with Chevron has not subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron always has the answers,” Joseph said in an interview. “They just refuse to share with us. They know they’re polluting. They also know they can come and say nothing and get away with it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after the October 2021 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901875/chevron-richmond-refinery-roof-leak-october-2021-flaring-incident\">KQED reported that problems started when an atmospheric river storm poured rain through a leaky roof into a key part of the refinery\u003c/a>, triggering significant power and steam loss. That, in turn, knocked half a dozen petroleum processing units offline, caused a small fire, and resulted in several days in which the refinery flared off toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never came back to City Council. They never came back and explained. They never came back to apologize,” said Joseph, who is a community organizer with the group Reimagine Richmond and said he only learned of the cause of that accident from KQED’s reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='chevron']Chevron says it informs the public and the air district about its releases. The company points out that residents can check real-time air quality data through \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\">the refinery’s fenceline monitoring system\u003c/a>. The causes of many flaring events are posted several months later on \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/research-and-data/flare-data/flare-causal-reports\">the air district’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron Richmond also will be implementing various improvements to our flare monitoring and sampling systems and setting up ways to discuss flaring events and other air quality issues directly with our community,” the company said through its representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71 violations for the October 2021 incident involve times in which Chevron broke public nuisance, permit condition, visible emission and flare monitoring regulations, according to Kristine Roselius, an air district spokesperson. But the settlement essentially obscures the fine amount for each penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We accounted for the seriousness of these violations in determining an appropriate overall penalty amount for all the covered violations, but there is no allocation of specific dollar amounts to each individual violation, Roselius said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the oil industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960699/oil-industry-sets-back-efforts-to-increase-fines-against-polluting-california-refineries-yet-again\">has successfully killed or delayed legislative attempts to increase penalties on refineries\u003c/a> that violate air quality laws in California. The most recent bill, proposed by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), would increase the ceiling of many of those penalties to $30,000 per violation. That bill, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB1465/2023\">AB 1465\u003c/a>, is on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials say 13 of Chevron’s violations settled in the recent deal were tied to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860389/chevron-says-flawed-electrical-diagram-triggered-major-flaring-incident\">incident on Nov. 2, 2020,\u003c/a> when an incorrectly labeled electrical diagram caused a power outage leading to the flaring of more than 100,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide and other chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says 11 other violations were connected to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cchealth.org/home/showpublisheddocument/28612/638337601986530000\">malfunction at the Richmond refinery on March 9, 2023,\u003c/a> when a hydrogen-producing plant tripped offline thanks to an electrical equipment malfunction. On the same day, a fire broke out thanks to a pump seal leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Chevron’s Richmond refinery has flared more than the Bay Area’s other refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company argues that its “flaring performance has been steadily improving over the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To supplement these efforts, we will be formalizing an operator training program related to flare reduction and conducting a comprehensive assessment of previous flaring events to identify if any additional corrective actions are warranted,” the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An agreement air regulators made with Chevron earlier this year includes settling dozens of violations tied to some of the largest accidents at the company’s Richmond refinery over the last five years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712189495,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1101},"headData":{"title":"Major Richmond Refinery Accidents Settled as Part of Chevron Deal | KQED","description":"An agreement air regulators made with Chevron earlier this year includes settling dozens of violations tied to some of the largest accidents at the company’s Richmond refinery over the last five years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981762/major-richmond-refinery-accidents-settled-as-part-of-chevron-deal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An agreement local air regulators made with Chevron earlier this year includes the settling of dozens of violations tied to some of the largest accidents at the company’s Richmond refinery over the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975650/bay-air-district-hails-decisive-victory-in-battle-to-cut-refinery-pollution\">announced in February that it had reached deals with Chevron and the Martinez Refining Company\u003c/a>, ending a legal war over a rule intended to reduce a harmful form of pollution emitted by the energy companies’ local refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the agreement, Chevron is also paying $20 million to settle 678 separate violations related to its Richmond refinery. That marks the highest penalty agreement the energy giant has ever made with the air district, according to Philip Fine, the agency’s executive officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This a new era of enforcement and holding facilities accountable,” Fine told the Richmond City Council on Feb. 27. “They need to feel these penalties in order to incentivize them to stay in compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal resolves all of the air district’s open enforcement actions with Chevron that took place between 2019 and June 30, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975650","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We believe this resolution will allow us to turn our full focus on the future safe and reliable operation of our facility,” Chevron said in a statement sent by company spokesperson Caitlin Powell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials told KQED 105 of the violations Chevron settled are tied to eight major incidents at the refinery over the last five years. They include several cases in which refinery components malfunctioned, leading to flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\">Flaring operations\u003c/a> take place when refineries send gasses to their flares to reduce pressure inside the facilities during malfunctions as well as start-up and shutdown operations. Oil industry officials have emphasized that the practice is a way to prevent more serious and possibly dangerous accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the flaring operations involved in the settlement released significant amounts of toxic gas into the air above the Richmond area. In several of these incidents, nearby residents could see black smoke and fire bursting into the sky, with some calling the air district to complain. 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The refinery sustained a series of malfunctions that led to three days of flaring and significant concerns by Richmond area residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the releases started, the City Council asked Chevron executives to explain what happened in a public hearing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\">Residents who showed up to the virtual meeting left upset\u003c/a>. They complained that company representatives did not have an explanation for what caused the major refinery malfunction. 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They also know they can come and say nothing and get away with it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after the October 2021 incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901875/chevron-richmond-refinery-roof-leak-october-2021-flaring-incident\">KQED reported that problems started when an atmospheric river storm poured rain through a leaky roof into a key part of the refinery\u003c/a>, triggering significant power and steam loss. That, in turn, knocked half a dozen petroleum processing units offline, caused a small fire, and resulted in several days in which the refinery flared off toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They never came back to City Council. They never came back and explained. They never came back to apologize,” said Joseph, who is a community organizer with the group Reimagine Richmond and said he only learned of the cause of that accident from KQED’s reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"chevron"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chevron says it informs the public and the air district about its releases. The company points out that residents can check real-time air quality data through \u003ca href=\"https://richmondairmonitoring.org/\">the refinery’s fenceline monitoring system\u003c/a>. The causes of many flaring events are posted several months later on \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/research-and-data/flare-data/flare-causal-reports\">the air district’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron Richmond also will be implementing various improvements to our flare monitoring and sampling systems and setting up ways to discuss flaring events and other air quality issues directly with our community,” the company said through its representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 71 violations for the October 2021 incident involve times in which Chevron broke public nuisance, permit condition, visible emission and flare monitoring regulations, according to Kristine Roselius, an air district spokesperson. But the settlement essentially obscures the fine amount for each penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We accounted for the seriousness of these violations in determining an appropriate overall penalty amount for all the covered violations, but there is no allocation of specific dollar amounts to each individual violation, Roselius said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last decade, the oil industry \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960699/oil-industry-sets-back-efforts-to-increase-fines-against-polluting-california-refineries-yet-again\">has successfully killed or delayed legislative attempts to increase penalties on refineries\u003c/a> that violate air quality laws in California. The most recent bill, proposed by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), would increase the ceiling of many of those penalties to $30,000 per violation. 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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>[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_11929409":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11929409","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11929409","score":null,"sort":[1666173643000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"benicia-cc-valero","title":"In Benicia's City Council Race, the Valero Refinery Is on People's Minds","publishDate":1666173643,"format":"audio","headTitle":"In Benicia’s City Council Race, the Valero Refinery Is on People’s Minds | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Benicia is home to an oil refinery operated by Valero, which employs hundreds of people and contributes tax revenue totaling an estimated 20% of the city’s general budget.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company has also played a very active role in local elections. Valero’s political action committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, with this year’s city council race underway — and residents frustrated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">over recent controversies at the refinery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Valero’s role in Benicia looms large once again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OakMorr\">Scott Morris\u003c/a>, reporter for the Vallejo Sun\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=KQINC7380528814&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Links\u003c/strong>:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/benicia-city-council-candidates-forum-october-2022/\">Valero looms over Benicia City Council candidates forum\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,’ by Scott Morris, Oct. 13, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>‘’\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906922/in-benicia-the-public-has-been-kept-in-the-dark-about-toxic-chemicals-at-valeros-refinery\">First I Had Heard of It’: Valero’s Benicia Refinery Secretly Released Toxic Chemicals for Years\u003c/a>,’ \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Ted Goldberg, Feb. 24, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LISTEN: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906922/in-benicia-the-public-has-been-kept-in-the-dark-about-toxic-chemicals-at-valeros-refinery\">\u003cb>For 15 Years, Valero’s Benicia Refinery Released Toxic Chemicals — And No One Knew, \u003c/b>\u003c/a>Mar. 1, 2022.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">WATCH: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/RPfGKJEMUFQ\">\u003cb>Benicia City Council Candidate Forum\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Oct. 12, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690248,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":175},"headData":{"title":"In Benicia's City Council Race, the Valero Refinery Is on People's Minds | KQED","description":"Benicia is home to an oil refinery operated by Valero, which employs hundreds of people and contributes tax revenue totaling an estimated 20% of the city’s general budget. The company has also played a very active role in local elections. Valero’s political action committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2018 and 2020. Now,","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC7380528814.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11929409/benicia-cc-valero","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Benicia is home to an oil refinery operated by Valero, which employs hundreds of people and contributes tax revenue totaling an estimated 20% of the city’s general budget.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company has also played a very active role in local elections. Valero’s political action committee spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2018 and 2020.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, with this year’s city council race underway — and residents frustrated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">over recent controversies at the refinery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Valero’s role in Benicia looms large once again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OakMorr\">Scott Morris\u003c/a>, reporter for the Vallejo Sun\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=KQINC7380528814&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Links\u003c/strong>:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/benicia-city-council-candidates-forum-october-2022/\">Valero looms over Benicia City Council candidates forum\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,’ by Scott Morris, Oct. 13, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>‘’\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906922/in-benicia-the-public-has-been-kept-in-the-dark-about-toxic-chemicals-at-valeros-refinery\">First I Had Heard of It’: Valero’s Benicia Refinery Secretly Released Toxic Chemicals for Years\u003c/a>,’ \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">by Ted Goldberg, Feb. 24, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">LISTEN: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906922/in-benicia-the-public-has-been-kept-in-the-dark-about-toxic-chemicals-at-valeros-refinery\">\u003cb>For 15 Years, Valero’s Benicia Refinery Released Toxic Chemicals — And No One Knew, \u003c/b>\u003c/a>Mar. 1, 2022.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">WATCH: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/RPfGKJEMUFQ\">\u003cb>Benicia City Council Candidate Forum\u003c/b>\u003c/a> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Oct. 12, 2022.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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/11929409/benicia-cc-valero","authors":["11649","11802"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_30879","news_31864","news_3111","news_2919","news_22598","news_20022"],"featImg":"news_11913908","label":"source_news_11929409"},"news_11912685":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912685","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912685","score":null,"sort":[1651129290000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recycling","title":"California Is Investigating Big Oil for Allegedly Misleading the Public on Recycling","publishDate":1651129290,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:41 p.m. ET \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusing the country's largest oil and gas companies of \"a half-century campaign of deception,\" California's attorney general opened an investigation Thursday into the possible role the companies played promoting the idea that plastics could be recycled, in an effort to manipulate the public to buy more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said the fossil fuel industry benefited financially from the industry's misleading statements which he said go back decades. Bonta has so far subpoenaed ExxonMobil seeking information and documents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Attorney General Rob Bonta\"]'The truth is: The vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For more than half a century, the plastics industry has engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, perpetuating a myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis,\" Bonta said. \"The truth is: The vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement cited NPR and the PBS series Frontline's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled\">2020 investigation\u003c/a> into the oil and gas industry which uncovered documents showing top officials knew that recycling plastic was unlikely to work but spent tens of millions of dollars telling the public the opposite. Starting in the 1980s, the industry launched dozens of ads, nonprofits, and campaigns touting the benefits of recycling plastic – and placing the responsibility on consumers – even as their own documents warned that recycling was \"infeasible\" and that there was \"serious doubt\" that plastic recycling \"can ever be made viable on an economic basis,\" the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham Forbes, plastics global campaign lead at Greenpeace USA, said California's investigation is welcome news. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"left\" citation=\"Graham Forbes with Greenpeace USA\"]'It is encouraging to see the state of California stand up to the fossil fuel industry. Hopefully, this is a sign that policymakers are ready to start holding corporations accountable.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For too long, ExxonMobil and other corporate polluters have been allowed to mislead the public and harm people and the planet,\" Forbes said. \"It is encouraging to see the state of California stand up to the fossil fuel industry. Hopefully, this is a sign that policymakers are ready to start holding corporations accountable.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ExxonMobil said it rejects the allegations made by the California attorney general, and highlighted that it is the first company to use what it referred to as an \"advanced recycling technology\" to recycle used plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are focused on solutions and meritless allegations like these distract from the important collaborative work that is underway to enhance waste management and improve circularity,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry group, the American Chemistry Council, said in a statement it is committed to keeping plastic out of the environment and has \"proposed comprehensive and bold actions at the state, federal, and international levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials have told NPR in the past that the industry has never misled the public and believes it can make plastic recycling work, though they were not able to specify how. In 40 years, no more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/national-overview-facts-and-figures-materials#Trends1960-Today\">10 percent\u003c/a> of all plastic has ever been recycled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='California Oil' tag='oil']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference, Bonta said his office's preliminary findings have provided them with enough information to proceed with an investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not prejudging this, but there is information, significant amounts of it, that is compelling and in the public sphere that has led us to a good faith belief that we should be subpoenaing ExxonMobil to get more information,\" Bonta said. \"There is a broad belief that plastics are recyclable. That has been the result of the misinformation campaign, of the deception, that consumers have been manipulated to believe that plastic is recyclable. It was a strategy as far as we can tell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the investigation also hopes to determine whether any deception is still ongoing. Critics of the oil industry have raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/reuters-story-exposes-big-oils-alliance-to-end-plastic-waste-scam/\">concerns\u003c/a> about the industry's current $1.5 billion effort, which launched in 2019 under the banner \"\u003ca href=\"https://endplasticwaste.org/\">The Alliance to End Plastic Waste\u003c/a>\" and is made up of the country's largest oil and plastic producers. Through glossy ads and small demonstration projects, the group promotes plastic recycling and clean up efforts rather than using less plastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his office is eager to move quickly with the investigation and get hold of the documents they are looking for. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+is+investigating+Big+Oil+for+allegedly+misleading+the+public+on+recycling&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California's attorney general is investigating oil and gas companies for allegedly deceiving the public that most plastic can be recycled, citing NPR and PBS Frontline's investigation of the industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1651266958,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":743},"headData":{"title":"California Is Investigating Big Oil for Allegedly Misleading the Public on Recycling | KQED","description":"California's attorney general is investigating oil and gas companies for allegedly deceiving the public that most plastic can be recycled, citing NPR and PBS Frontline's investigation of the industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11912685 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11912685","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/04/28/california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recycling/","disqusTitle":"California Is Investigating Big Oil for Allegedly Misleading the Public on Recycling","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Justin Sullivan","nprByline":"Laura Sullivan","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1095305949","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1095305949&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095305949/california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recyc?ft=nprml&f=1095305949","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:42:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:08:41 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:42:12 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11912685/california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recycling","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 10:41 p.m. ET \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accusing the country's largest oil and gas companies of \"a half-century campaign of deception,\" California's attorney general opened an investigation Thursday into the possible role the companies played promoting the idea that plastics could be recycled, in an effort to manipulate the public to buy more of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta said the fossil fuel industry benefited financially from the industry's misleading statements which he said go back decades. Bonta has so far subpoenaed ExxonMobil seeking information and documents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The truth is: The vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"California Attorney General Rob Bonta","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For more than half a century, the plastics industry has engaged in an aggressive campaign to deceive the public, perpetuating a myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis,\" Bonta said. \"The truth is: The vast majority of plastic cannot be recycled.\"\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 announcement cited NPR and the PBS series Frontline's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled\">2020 investigation\u003c/a> into the oil and gas industry which uncovered documents showing top officials knew that recycling plastic was unlikely to work but spent tens of millions of dollars telling the public the opposite. Starting in the 1980s, the industry launched dozens of ads, nonprofits, and campaigns touting the benefits of recycling plastic – and placing the responsibility on consumers – even as their own documents warned that recycling was \"infeasible\" and that there was \"serious doubt\" that plastic recycling \"can ever be made viable on an economic basis,\" the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham Forbes, plastics global campaign lead at Greenpeace USA, said California's investigation is welcome news. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is encouraging to see the state of California stand up to the fossil fuel industry. 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Hopefully, this is a sign that policymakers are ready to start holding corporations accountable.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, ExxonMobil said it rejects the allegations made by the California attorney general, and highlighted that it is the first company to use what it referred to as an \"advanced recycling technology\" to recycle used plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are focused on solutions and meritless allegations like these distract from the important collaborative work that is underway to enhance waste management and improve circularity,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry group, the American Chemistry Council, said in a statement it is committed to keeping plastic out of the environment and has \"proposed comprehensive and bold actions at the state, federal, and international levels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials have told NPR in the past that the industry has never misled the public and believes it can make plastic recycling work, though they were not able to specify how. In 40 years, no more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/national-overview-facts-and-figures-materials#Trends1960-Today\">10 percent\u003c/a> of all plastic has ever been recycled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"California Oil ","tag":"oil"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference, Bonta said his office's preliminary findings have provided them with enough information to proceed with an investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not prejudging this, but there is information, significant amounts of it, that is compelling and in the public sphere that has led us to a good faith belief that we should be subpoenaing ExxonMobil to get more information,\" Bonta said. \"There is a broad belief that plastics are recyclable. That has been the result of the misinformation campaign, of the deception, that consumers have been manipulated to believe that plastic is recyclable. It was a strategy as far as we can tell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the investigation also hopes to determine whether any deception is still ongoing. Critics of the oil industry have raised \u003ca href=\"https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/reuters-story-exposes-big-oils-alliance-to-end-plastic-waste-scam/\">concerns\u003c/a> about the industry's current $1.5 billion effort, which launched in 2019 under the banner \"\u003ca href=\"https://endplasticwaste.org/\">The Alliance to End Plastic Waste\u003c/a>\" and is made up of the country's largest oil and plastic producers. Through glossy ads and small demonstration projects, the group promotes plastic recycling and clean up efforts rather than using less plastic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his office is eager to move quickly with the investigation and get hold of the documents they are looking for. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+is+investigating+Big+Oil+for+allegedly+misleading+the+public+on+recycling&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11912685/california-is-investigating-big-oil-for-allegedly-misleading-the-public-on-recycling","authors":["byline_news_11912685"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3111"],"featImg":"news_11912687","label":"source_news_11912685"},"news_11910800":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11910800","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11910800","score":null,"sort":[1649714608000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sequestering-common-sense","title":"Sequestering Common Sense","publishDate":1649714608,"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/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11910813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final.png\" alt='Cartoon: Three people hold signs, the first one reads, \"keep it in the ground, no oil!\" The second one reads, \"put it in the ground, CO2.\" The third one reads, \"put it in the ground to get more out of the ground: CO2, oil.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final-800x526.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final-1020x670.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/carboncapture_041122_final-1536x1010.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of California's carbon market — which is intended to lower greenhouse gas emissions — \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorecarbonmarket\">Occidental Petroleum plans to inject carbon dioxide into the ground to extract more oil\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right — the system of carbon credits designed to help fight climate change is being used by an oil company (founded in California, now headquartered in Texas) to pump more oil out of the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, carbon credits (if used as they were intended) may help us avoid completely destroying the planet — but rest assured, oil companies will continue to do everything they can to profit all the way to the apocalypse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With the help of California's carbon market — which is intended to lower emissions — Occidental Petroleum plans to inject carbon dioxide into the ground to extract more oil. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1649716695,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":109},"headData":{"title":"Sequestering Common Sense | KQED","description":"With the help of California's carbon market — which is intended to lower emissions — Occidental Petroleum plans to inject carbon dioxide into the ground to extract more oil. 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It’s the first labor strike at the plant in more than 40 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The union representing these workers says that Chevron hasn’t offered enough in the way of pay increases, benefit contributions, and worker safety. Chevron claims the union has asked for too much, and in the meantime has promised to keep the refinery running using non-union workers. This strike is also laying bare the tensions within the city of Richmond about Chevron’s role in the community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/a>, KQED supervising senior editor of news\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3IFb0w6\">Episode transcript\u003c/a>\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=KQINC2529587615&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690713,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":113},"headData":{"title":"A Strike at Chevron’s Richmond Refinery | KQED","description":"About 500 operators and technicians at Chevron’s Richmond refinery went on strike starting Monday. 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It’s the first labor strike at the plant in more than 40 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The union representing these workers says that Chevron hasn’t offered enough in the way of pay increases, benefit contributions, and worker safety. Chevron claims the union has asked for too much, and in the meantime has promised to keep the refinery running using non-union workers. 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And from 2003 to 2018, it secretly released excessive amounts of hazardous chemicals into the air before Bay Area regulators found out and investigated. Meanwhile, local officials and the broader community were only informed this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, KQED supervising senior editor for news\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3HAKu6E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Episode Transcript \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\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=KQINC5612494241&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Links:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">‘First I Had Heard of It’: Valero’s Benicia Refinery Secretly Released Toxic Chemicals for Years\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690773,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":88},"headData":{"title":"For 15 Years, Valero’s Benicia Refinery Released Toxic Chemicals — And No One Knew | KQED","description":"Valero’s Benicia oil refinery is one of the largest refineries in the state. 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And from 2003 to 2018, it secretly released excessive amounts of hazardous chemicals into the air before Bay Area regulators found out and investigated. Meanwhile, local officials and the broader community were only informed this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ted Goldberg\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, KQED supervising senior editor for news\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3HAKu6E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Episode Transcript \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\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=KQINC5612494241&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Links:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905065/first-i-had-heard-of-it-valeros-benicia-refinery-secretly-released-toxic-chemicals-for-years\">‘First I Had Heard of It’: Valero’s Benicia Refinery Secretly Released Toxic Chemicals for Years\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \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/11906922/in-benicia-the-public-has-been-kept-in-the-dark-about-toxic-chemicals-at-valeros-refinery","authors":["8654","258","11802","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_20902","news_21826","news_3111","news_22598","news_30733"],"featImg":"news_11703286","label":"source_news_11906922"},"news_11876301":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11876301","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11876301","score":null,"sort":[1626903376000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-refineries-must-dramatically-cut-pollution-air-district-says-in-historic-vote","title":"Bay Area Refineries Must Dramatically Cut Pollution, Air District Says in Historic Vote","publishDate":1626903376,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Local air regulators moved Wednesday to require two of California's largest oil refineries to significantly reduce the amount of pollution they spew into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted 19 to 3 to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbfenergy.com/refineries/\">PBF Energy-owned refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to cut down on the particulate matter emitted by a key part of their plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came after two separate days of hours-long hearings and threats of a lawsuit from the oil industry, along with pressure from environmentalists, health advocates, refinery workers and labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we do we're going to face a legal challenge and that's the name of the game,\" said Nate Miley, a member of the board and an Alameda County supervisor. \"I want history to show, at least my vote, that I was on the side of protecting communities, putting the health of people above cost, above money, above refineries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To satisfy the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rules\u003c/a>, the two oil companies would most likely need to buy and install air pollution devices known as wet gas scrubbers at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Bauters, Bay Area Air Quality Management District board director\"]'Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely Brown, Black, impoverished or politically under-represented communities for decades. They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote is the culmination of work started by air district staff in 2019. Dozens of agency workers researched the proposal, worked with outside departments and took comments from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878624/a-pivotal-moment-for-regulating-the-bay-areas-oil-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second\u003c/a> before the full board on the proposed rule. In early June, so many environmentalists, refinery workers, union officials and local residents offered public comment that the board had to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than 300 people spoke during the public comment periods of both meetings, according to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday's public comment period, board director John Bauters, a member of the Emeryville City Council who chaired the district committee that first approved the rule, implored his colleagues to act aggressively to protect people who live near the region's refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely brown, Black, impoverished or politically underrepresented communities for decades,\" Bauters said. \"They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and health advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874932/air-regulators-weigh-plan-aimed-at-dramatically-cutting-bay-area-refinery-pollution\">urged\u003c/a> the board to approve the proposal. They emphasized the need to protect the health of residents who live near the refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color in areas with higher rates of respiratory disease. Refineries in other parts of the country use the wet gas scrubbers, they said, and the ones in the Bay Area could easily follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission,\" said Dr. Teresa Muñoz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond, at a press conference in late May held a few blocks from the Chevron refinery. \"Please keep your word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Davina Hurt, Bay Area Air Quality Management District board director\"]'People are being asked to wait. It's very reminiscent to what my parents and their parents have heard living in the South... In this case you need to wait to breathe clean air. 'Wait' almost always means 'never.' '[/pullquote]Some oil executives, labor leaders and refinery workers urged directors to go with a less stringent proposal. They said the one the board approved Wednesday will hurt jobs, raise the cost of gasoline and hurt local airports that rely on the two refineries. They also said the large devices they may need to buy to satisfy the new rule use too much water and won't achieve the environmental gains predicted by the air agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after the vote, Chevron said it has already reduced its particulate matter releases, argued those reductions were greater than the ones required under the new rule and indicated it might sue the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, rather than rely on actual data from our facility, Air Board Members adopted a rule based on erroneous data that fails to significantly improve local air quality at an extreme cost that could impact Bay Area consumers who rely on affordable energy in their daily lives,\" company spokesman Brian Hubinger said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule threatens the supply of affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy at a time when our regional economy is still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case, the rulemaking effort is so flawed that we will investigate our legal options to ensure we can meet environmental goals, continue to provide fuels that meet strict environmental standards and save energy jobs in our community,\" Chevron's Hubinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF Energy executives have told the air district the rule would force them to close down their refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Wednesday's hearing, PBF's Western Region President, Paul Davis, said the company expected the vote would come down the way it did and emphasized that the new rule only required emissions reductions, not necessarily the installation of a wet gas scrubber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PBF has previously planned projects that will be implemented over the coming months that will allow our Martinez refinery to achieve emissions reductions significantly closer to the desired level in the first quarter of 2022,\" Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with the BAAQMD to arrive at our mutually desired goal of improving air quality and continuing to provide our vital products to one of the largest fuel markets in the world,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='refineries']A proposal floated during Wednesday's meeting to delay the vote and bring along the other, less-stringent rule to a future hearing lost steam after a growing number of directors indicated they wanted to move forward now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Davina Hurt, a Belmont City Council member, likened efforts to delay the vote to the nation's slow pace in responding to calls for racial equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are being asked to wait. It's very reminiscent to what my parents and their parents have heard living in the South and in Indiana and [which was] prominent during the civil rights movement and even emancipation,\" Hurt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, you need to wait to breathe clean air,\" she said. \"'Wait' almost always means 'never.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule change is aimed at cutting down the amount of particulate matter released into the air from refineries' fluidized catalytic cracking units. Those units use a chemical catalyst to help break down heavy crude oil into lighter components for products like gasoline. During the cracking process, the catalyst is coated with a carbon material called coke, which is then burned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district said that the procedure emits more particulate matter than any other part of the refining process and makes up a significant portion of each plant's total emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district staff said the rule change will save lives and millions of dollars in health costs. They said agency studies found that the predominantly Latino and Black communities in the areas around the refineries were exposed to particulate matter at a disproportionately higher rate than others in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some directors and others expressed concern about the amount of water wet gas scrubbers use - and that bringing them on in a drought would exacerbate the region's worsening water supply. Air district staff and other supporters of the proposal said the increase in water use is small compared to what the refineries already use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule is set to take effect in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Air regulators voted 19-3 to move forward on a plan health advocates had urged them to approve, emphasizing the need to protect the health of residents who live near refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626961005,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1335},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Refineries Must Dramatically Cut Pollution, Air District Says in Historic Vote | KQED","description":"Air regulators voted 19-3 to move forward on a plan health advocates had urged them to approve, emphasizing the need to protect the health of residents who live near refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11876301 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11876301","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/21/bay-area-refineries-must-dramatically-cut-pollution-air-district-says-in-historic-vote/","disqusTitle":"Bay Area Refineries Must Dramatically Cut Pollution, Air District Says in Historic Vote","path":"/news/11876301/bay-area-refineries-must-dramatically-cut-pollution-air-district-says-in-historic-vote","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Local air regulators moved Wednesday to require two of California's largest oil refineries to significantly reduce the amount of pollution they spew into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted 19 to 3 to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbfenergy.com/refineries/\">PBF Energy-owned refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to cut down on the particulate matter emitted by a key part of their plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came after two separate days of hours-long hearings and threats of a lawsuit from the oil industry, along with pressure from environmentalists, health advocates, refinery workers and labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we do we're going to face a legal challenge and that's the name of the game,\" said Nate Miley, a member of the board and an Alameda County supervisor. \"I want history to show, at least my vote, that I was on the side of protecting communities, putting the health of people above cost, above money, above refineries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To satisfy the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rules\u003c/a>, the two oil companies would most likely need to buy and install air pollution devices known as wet gas scrubbers at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely Brown, Black, impoverished or politically under-represented communities for decades. 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In early June, so many environmentalists, refinery workers, union officials and local residents offered public comment that the board had to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than 300 people spoke during the public comment periods of both meetings, according to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday's public comment period, board director John Bauters, a member of the Emeryville City Council who chaired the district committee that first approved the rule, implored his colleagues to act aggressively to protect people who live near the region's refineries.\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>\"Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely brown, Black, impoverished or politically underrepresented communities for decades,\" Bauters said. \"They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and health advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874932/air-regulators-weigh-plan-aimed-at-dramatically-cutting-bay-area-refinery-pollution\">urged\u003c/a> the board to approve the proposal. They emphasized the need to protect the health of residents who live near the refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color in areas with higher rates of respiratory disease. Refineries in other parts of the country use the wet gas scrubbers, they said, and the ones in the Bay Area could easily follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission,\" said Dr. Teresa Muñoz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond, at a press conference in late May held a few blocks from the Chevron refinery. \"Please keep your word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'People are being asked to wait. It's very reminiscent to what my parents and their parents have heard living in the South... In this case you need to wait to breathe clean air. 'Wait' almost always means 'never.' 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They also said the large devices they may need to buy to satisfy the new rule use too much water and won't achieve the environmental gains predicted by the air agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after the vote, Chevron said it has already reduced its particulate matter releases, argued those reductions were greater than the ones required under the new rule and indicated it might sue the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, rather than rely on actual data from our facility, Air Board Members adopted a rule based on erroneous data that fails to significantly improve local air quality at an extreme cost that could impact Bay Area consumers who rely on affordable energy in their daily lives,\" company spokesman Brian Hubinger said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule threatens the supply of affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy at a time when our regional economy is still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case, the rulemaking effort is so flawed that we will investigate our legal options to ensure we can meet environmental goals, continue to provide fuels that meet strict environmental standards and save energy jobs in our community,\" Chevron's Hubinger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF Energy executives have told the air district the rule would force them to close down their refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after Wednesday's hearing, PBF's Western Region President, Paul Davis, said the company expected the vote would come down the way it did and emphasized that the new rule only required emissions reductions, not necessarily the installation of a wet gas scrubber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PBF has previously planned projects that will be implemented over the coming months that will allow our Martinez refinery to achieve emissions reductions significantly closer to the desired level in the first quarter of 2022,\" Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to work with the BAAQMD to arrive at our mutually desired goal of improving air quality and continuing to provide our vital products to one of the largest fuel markets in the world,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"refineries"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A proposal floated during Wednesday's meeting to delay the vote and bring along the other, less-stringent rule to a future hearing lost steam after a growing number of directors indicated they wanted to move forward now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Davina Hurt, a Belmont City Council member, likened efforts to delay the vote to the nation's slow pace in responding to calls for racial equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are being asked to wait. It's very reminiscent to what my parents and their parents have heard living in the South and in Indiana and [which was] prominent during the civil rights movement and even emancipation,\" Hurt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, you need to wait to breathe clean air,\" she said. \"'Wait' almost always means 'never.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule change is aimed at cutting down the amount of particulate matter released into the air from refineries' fluidized catalytic cracking units. Those units use a chemical catalyst to help break down heavy crude oil into lighter components for products like gasoline. During the cracking process, the catalyst is coated with a carbon material called coke, which is then burned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district said that the procedure emits more particulate matter than any other part of the refining process and makes up a significant portion of each plant's total emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district staff said the rule change will save lives and millions of dollars in health costs. They said agency studies found that the predominantly Latino and Black communities in the areas around the refineries were exposed to particulate matter at a disproportionately higher rate than others in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some directors and others expressed concern about the amount of water wet gas scrubbers use - and that bringing them on in a drought would exacerbate the region's worsening water supply. Air district staff and other supporters of the proposal said the increase in water use is small compared to what the refineries already use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule is set to take effect in five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11876301/bay-area-refineries-must-dramatically-cut-pollution-air-district-says-in-historic-vote","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_457","news_8","news_13","news_356","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_2036","news_20628","news_20389","news_424","news_27626","news_3111","news_29527","news_26179"],"featImg":"news_11685494","label":"news"},"news_11875020":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11875020","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11875020","score":null,"sort":[1621887356000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-plans-to-wean-off-oil-by-2045-some-environmentalists-say-itll-be-too-late-by-then","title":"California Plans to Wean Itself Off Oil by 2045. Some Environmentalists Say It'll Be Too Late by Then","publishDate":1621887356,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has some of the most ambitious environmental goals in the country. One of them is transitioning away from oil, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and the end of oil production a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the short term, environmentalists are anxiously awaiting a rulemaking process in one of Gov. Gavin Newsom's agencies. They say it will show how committed the Democrat is to meaningful action during his governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: California is now the first state to declare an end to oil extraction in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we're announcing that we will phase out all oil extraction — as part of a world-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality — and ban fracking by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1385671067147005953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At issue is whether California should impose a buffer zone between oil drilling sites and homes, schools or hospitals. Despite its reputation as a climate leader, California has no statewide limit, unlike other oil-producing states including Pennsylvania and Colorado. Even Texas bans wells within 467 feet of a property line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California environmentalists want a 2,500-foot space, which would be the largest of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups point to studies that show living near active drilling sites can elevate the risk of birth defects, cancer, respiratory problems and other health issues. That's in addition to loud sounds and foul smells. It’s not clear how far the agency will go and whether any rules would apply to new drilling, existing wells or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1973279\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/03/RS47842_GettyImages-81078516-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]The agency's direction holds political implications for Newsom as he faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874233/shirley-weber-appointed-by-gov-newsom-now-oversees-his-recall-election\">expected recall election\u003c/a> in the fall. Unions typically friendly with Newsom that represent workers are aligned with the powerful oil industry, which says a statewide rule on so-called setbacks would cost jobs and raise fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Newsom stuck between two important Democratic voting blocs — labor and environmentalists — whose support he needs this year and, if he survives, in his 2022 reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How he moves is going to motivate and encourage voters or discourage them,\" said Gladys Limon, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/\">California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/a>. “It will set the direction in which communities will move in for the next election.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil in a Blue State\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom's first year as governor, he changed the name and focus of California's oil and gas agency. The Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources is now the\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/calgem\"> Geologic Energy Management Division\u003c/a>, or CalGEM, and Newsom made health and safety a part of its mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom specifically told the agency to consider prohibiting oil and gas activities near homes, schools, hospitals and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kevin Slagle, WSPA\"]'A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location.'[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nEighteen months later, regulators are still deliberating, and last year they approved nearly 300 new oil and gas permits within 2,500 feet of homes, schools and health care facilities, according to Earthjustice, an environmental law group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators delayed a planned release of the draft rules in December and now say they'll come this spring, though no date has been set. Even then, the rules won't be final, though they will signal the direction Newsom's administration wants to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil has long posed a political conundrum for ruling Democrats in California, the seventh-largest oil-producing state. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, hailed internationally as a climate champion, faced pushback at home for not taking on the industry more aggressively. In the Legislature, efforts to establish setbacks have repeatedly failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> opposes a statewide mandate, saying such rules should be decided at the local level and based on health and environmental concerns specific to the area. It has an ally in the State Building and Construction Trades Council, a major union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location,\" said Kevin Slagle, WSPA's vice president of strategic communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the group's support for a Kern County process that requires every drilling project be evaluated for setback needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For Newsom, A Delicate Balancing act\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\" Ann Alexander, Litigator for the Natural Resources Defense Council\"]'They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard.'[/pullquote]An estimated 2 million Californians live within 2,500 feet of an active oil well, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.vision-ca.org/\"> Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods\u003c/a>. Most active wells are in Los Angeles and Kern counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard,” said Ann Alexander, a senior attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom doesn't go far enough, some environmentalists could rethink their political support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this spring, some discussed supporting an alterative recall candidate, said RL Miller, the former head of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus. That was before Newsom announced a 2024 ban on fracking — the process of extracting oil and gas embedded in rock deep underground — and called on state regulators to explore an end to oil production by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller supports Newsom, and many climate groups have endorsed him, if only because they see no viable alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the unions representing workers who rely on jobs related to the oil industry say a mandated buffer zone would risk good-paying jobs and raise the price of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, a powerful force in Sacramento, represents about 100,000 people with industry-related jobs including laying pipes and electrical and ironwork, said President Robbie Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='climate-change']WSPA spent more than $1.3 million lobbying at the state Capitol in the first three months of the year. The state Building and Construction Trades Council spent $87,000. Meanwhile, the Natural Resources Defense Council spent $59,000, and the California Environmental Justice Alliance spent $13,500, according to state campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building trades union opposes the recall, Hunter said. But that won't stop his members from pushing Newsom and his administration to see their point of view. He charged environmentalists with holding “extreme opinions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, no prominent Democrats are challenging Newsom, but that could change if he appears more at risk as the election nears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is not directly involved in writing the regulations. The oil regulator is working with 15 public health experts and has taken more than 40,000 comments to inform its decision. But Newsom is ultimately in control of the agency's direction, noted Danny Cullenward, an energy economist and lawyer who studies carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ball really is in the governor’s court right now,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporter Adam Beam contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom has set ambitious goals to wean California off oil, including calling for an end to oil production by 2045. But environmentalists want more action faster.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1621903479,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1237},"headData":{"title":"California Plans to Wean Itself Off Oil by 2045. 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Some Environmentalists Say It'll Be Too Late by Then","nprByline":"Kathleen Ronayne\u003cbr />The Associated Press","path":"/news/11875020/california-plans-to-wean-off-oil-by-2045-some-environmentalists-say-itll-be-too-late-by-then","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has some of the most ambitious environmental goals in the country. One of them is transitioning away from oil, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and the end of oil production a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the short term, environmentalists are anxiously awaiting a rulemaking process in one of Gov. Gavin Newsom's agencies. They say it will show how committed the Democrat is to meaningful action during his governorship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: California is now the first state to declare an end to oil extraction in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, we're announcing that we will phase out all oil extraction — as part of a world-leading effort to achieve carbon neutrality — and ban fracking by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1385671067147005953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At issue is whether California should impose a buffer zone between oil drilling sites and homes, schools or hospitals. Despite its reputation as a climate leader, California has no statewide limit, unlike other oil-producing states including Pennsylvania and Colorado. Even Texas bans wells within 467 feet of a property line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California environmentalists want a 2,500-foot space, which would be the largest of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These groups point to studies that show living near active drilling sites can elevate the risk of birth defects, cancer, respiratory problems and other health issues. That's in addition to loud sounds and foul smells. It’s not clear how far the agency will go and whether any rules would apply to new drilling, existing wells or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1973279","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/03/RS47842_GettyImages-81078516-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The agency's direction holds political implications for Newsom as he faces an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874233/shirley-weber-appointed-by-gov-newsom-now-oversees-his-recall-election\">expected recall election\u003c/a> in the fall. Unions typically friendly with Newsom that represent workers are aligned with the powerful oil industry, which says a statewide rule on so-called setbacks would cost jobs and raise fuel prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves Newsom stuck between two important Democratic voting blocs — labor and environmentalists — whose support he needs this year and, if he survives, in his 2022 reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How he moves is going to motivate and encourage voters or discourage them,\" said Gladys Limon, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://caleja.org/\">California Environmental Justice Alliance\u003c/a>. “It will set the direction in which communities will move in for the next election.\"\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Oil in a Blue State\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Newsom's first year as governor, he changed the name and focus of California's oil and gas agency. The Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources is now the\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/calgem\"> Geologic Energy Management Division\u003c/a>, or CalGEM, and Newsom made health and safety a part of its mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom specifically told the agency to consider prohibiting oil and gas activities near homes, schools, hospitals and parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Kevin Slagle, WSPA","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nEighteen months later, regulators are still deliberating, and last year they approved nearly 300 new oil and gas permits within 2,500 feet of homes, schools and health care facilities, according to Earthjustice, an environmental law group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators delayed a planned release of the draft rules in December and now say they'll come this spring, though no date has been set. Even then, the rules won't be final, though they will signal the direction Newsom's administration wants to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil has long posed a political conundrum for ruling Democrats in California, the seventh-largest oil-producing state. Former Gov. Jerry Brown, hailed internationally as a climate champion, faced pushback at home for not taking on the industry more aggressively. In the Legislature, efforts to establish setbacks have repeatedly failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> opposes a statewide mandate, saying such rules should be decided at the local level and based on health and environmental concerns specific to the area. It has an ally in the State Building and Construction Trades Council, a major union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A one-size-fits-all approach like that we think would be bad public policy and almost by definition it doesn’t take into account the science, data and what is really happening on the ground in a particular location,\" said Kevin Slagle, WSPA's vice president of strategic communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to the group's support for a Kern County process that requires every drilling project be evaluated for setback needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>For Newsom, A Delicate Balancing act\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":" Ann Alexander, Litigator for the Natural Resources Defense Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An estimated 2 million Californians live within 2,500 feet of an active oil well, according to\u003ca href=\"https://www.vision-ca.org/\"> Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods\u003c/a>. Most active wells are in Los Angeles and Kern counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t wait decades to get the oil wells out of their backyard,” said Ann Alexander, a senior attorney with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nrdc.org/\">Natural Resources Defense Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Newsom doesn't go far enough, some environmentalists could rethink their political support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this spring, some discussed supporting an alterative recall candidate, said RL Miller, the former head of the California Democratic Party’s environmental caucus. That was before Newsom announced a 2024 ban on fracking — the process of extracting oil and gas embedded in rock deep underground — and called on state regulators to explore an end to oil production by 2045.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller supports Newsom, and many climate groups have endorsed him, if only because they see no viable alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the unions representing workers who rely on jobs related to the oil industry say a mandated buffer zone would risk good-paying jobs and raise the price of fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, a powerful force in Sacramento, represents about 100,000 people with industry-related jobs including laying pipes and electrical and ironwork, said President Robbie Hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"climate-change"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>WSPA spent more than $1.3 million lobbying at the state Capitol in the first three months of the year. The state Building and Construction Trades Council spent $87,000. Meanwhile, the Natural Resources Defense Council spent $59,000, and the California Environmental Justice Alliance spent $13,500, according to state campaign finance filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building trades union opposes the recall, Hunter said. But that won't stop his members from pushing Newsom and his administration to see their point of view. He charged environmentalists with holding “extreme opinions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, no prominent Democrats are challenging Newsom, but that could change if he appears more at risk as the election nears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is not directly involved in writing the regulations. The oil regulator is working with 15 public health experts and has taken more than 40,000 comments to inform its decision. 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