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Leadership, in the next two years, maybe three to accelerate this market and get us to the next level of Market Penetration of electric vehicles. One of the areas were focused on right now is the opportunity, what is missing in our policy set one of the things missing in our policy set is trying to figure out how to get infrastructure out there. Here in the bay area, even though we lead in a number of electric vehicles, per capita in the state we are still short of our goal again our state goals...

The july 1st but for the september 1st, i wanted to say for the record, how much i love monica and will misher thank you. So my report. In your packets, today, you get this long laundry list that the activities, the department has been engaged in since the last Commission Meetings what i have done is pulled out a few things, i want to call to your attention, because i think theyre emblematic of the story we do with the department. The first one in the nail salon you heard about the nail salon pr...

Former Top Air District Executive Launches Innovative Environmental Communications Company

The city of Oakland also is trying to end use of generators in a part of the city that has long suffered from high levels of air pollution.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District finds itself without its long time leader and in a remarkably embarrassing situation regarding oil refinery emissions in its jurisdiction.

BENICIA — Valero has agreed to pay $345,000 to settle 17 notices of violations that occurred at its Benicia refinery in 2017, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Thursday. “This settlement is separate and unrelated to the $191,500 settlement Valero reached with the air district in

Valero released toxic amounts of chemicals in Benicia for 16 years. City leaders question...

BENICIA — A hearing board on Tuesday approved an abatement order “for Valero Refining Co. to cease unreported emissions at its Benicia oil refinery,” the  Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced. The order sets requirements and a schedule for Valero “to design, engineer,

Bay Area air quality regulators are seeking to crack down on the unregulated release of...