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DeSmog Apr 30, 2020 @ 15:56 While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. This defensive strategy involves vigorous public records requests, and in some cases legal action or intervention, to try proving a supposed conspiracy by those working to hold polluters accountable. ExxonMobil has itself argued that attorneys general and municipal officials that have sued the company are engaged in a conspiracy to take down Big Oil. That ar...

Skip to main content Currently Reading East Bay city wants to open a homeless RV site at a mostly vacant mall. Neighbors aren't happy FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 Jim Hauso, 71, and dog Bud visit with a friend at an RV encampment along Rydin Road in Richmond.Photos by Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of11 Cmichael Viewins, 40, organizes items at the Rydin Road camp. He says the city’s proposal would be an “opportunity to have somewhere to live.”Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of11 4of11 Amilee Smith, 60, cleans up the area outside her RV with her d...

By Mike Kinney A proposed, one-year pilot program providing safe haven for RV dwellers in a portion of the Hilltop Mall parking lot is receiving staunch opposition from neighbors. The Safe Parking Pilot Program has been a goal of the city’s for several years, and officials say the need for it has only grown amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as the city has seen an exponential growth in people living in their vehicles. On Feb. 2, city staff presented to council three of what they considered the most ideal of 35 evaluated locations to host the pilot program, which would be operated by a nonprofit...

Skip to main content Currently Reading A Bay Area 'news website,' funded by Chevron, has yet to report on the company's massive oil spill FacebookTwitterEmail Chevron and fire-agency crews respond to a five-gallon-per-minute petroleum product leak in the waters of Point Richmond as an absorbent boom is placed next to the Chevron Richmond Long Wharf in Richmond, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images A cursory glance at The Richmond Standard reveals a fairly standard news site, featuring an array of stories on current local events in poli...

RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) -- Chevron is now saying the material that leaked from one of its pipelines into San Francisco Bay Tuesday was some combination of water and petroleum material, perhaps gasoline or diesel fuel. However, it's awaiting lab results. Initial estimates had the spill at about 600 gallons, but a Chevron spokesperson said that is likely to change. So far, according to Contra Costa County Public Health and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there have been no reports of health or environmental impacts. 'We don't know exactly what it is yet," said Linsi Crain, Manage...