Emails Raise Questions About Chevron's Bay Area Oil Spill Response
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 ...