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Richmond Mayor Tom Butt was publicly optimistic about a Chevron oil refinery spill. In private he offered a much more critical assessment.

Emails Raise Questions About Chevron’s Bay Area Oil Spill Response Aaron Cantu, Capital & Main Capital & Main This article was produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. The morning after a quarter-inch hole in a pipeline owned by Chevron leaked petroleum fluids into the San Francisco Bay on February 9, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt struck an optimistic tone about the incident at the oil giant’s refinery. “I think in the big picture it’s going to be OK,” Butt told one local press outlet. On his blog several days later, Butt ...

SF Baykeeper sues Biden administration to list local longfin smelt as endangered species FacebookTwitterEmail Several longfin smelt collected Alviso Marsh in Lower South San Francisco Bay.The fish in these photos are all longfin smelt, photos taken in Dec. 2020. They were collected in Alviso Marsh in Lower South San Francisco Bay. Some were returned but some were kept for further evaluation. (They study their ear bones to get some data…). If you like you could add that longfin smelt are named their larger-than-average pectoral fin, the one behind their gills. Though to most of us the fin d...

Councilman, advocates call for change after latest Chevron refinery spill By Dan McMenamin article RICHMOND, Calif. - Richmond residents deserve more answers from Chevron and public agencies about an oil spill earlier this month and the community needs to discuss a future without the oil giant's refinery operating there, city officials and local advocates said Tuesday. The Feb. 9 leak of several hundred gallons at the refinery's long wharf in Richmond caused a sheen of oil that spread from Point Molate to Brooks Island, according to a unified command for the spill that involved Chevron, acco...

California Refinery’s Switch to Biofuels Not as Green As it Sounds Processing liquid fuels from commodities based on a monoculture agriculture model that is devastating the world's last intact forests requires close review. A version of this op-ed appeared on the Biofuelwatch website. Gary Graham Hughes February 9, 2021 The Carquinez Strait is a wonder of powerful tidewaters that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Sacramento-San Joaquín Delta. Every salmon born in the extensive Sacramento and Central Valley watersheds will make the journey through this bottleneck of coast...