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"content": "\u003cp>The next four weeks will determine how aggressively California regulates the controversial oil-drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing. And as state Sen. Fran Pavley points out, “four weeks is a long time, legislatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105246\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-105246\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/drillingrig-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"drillingrig\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A natural gas-drilling rig in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. (Scott Detrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The energy industry is watching these developments closely and with a degree of apprehension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, has spent the summer engaged in negotiations with the governor’s office, energy industry and environmental groups. 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In May, \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/us-california-oil-insight-idUSBRE94R0CO20130528\">several energy companies told Reuters that acidizing is a key part of drilling\u003c/a> in the Monterey Shale, which is much more fractured and difficult to access than the other major shale formations that are fueling the country’s recent domestic oil and gas boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the energy industry is pushing back against expanding the scope of California’s impending fracking regulations. “We recognize that our members will be operating in a much more tightly regulated environment in regards to hydraulic fracturing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> spokesman Tupper Hull. “They’re prepared to do that,” he said, but warned “to pull in a bunch of other issues that really are unrelated from a technical point of view makes the likelihood of achieving those balanced, comprehensive regulations much more slimmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, major oil companies and their deep pockets would stop negotiating and start fighting against the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“You Don’t Get To Break Your Well”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that fracking and acidizing are completely unregulated in California is popular but false. The Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division treats them as one aspect of the broader drilling process, which it permits and regulates. The state enforces standards regulating the thickness and quality of the pipes and cement that keep oil, gas, fracking fluid and any other substance inside a well, and out of the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same rules apply to fracking and acidizing as any other aspect of the drilling process, said Marshall. “You don’t get to break your well, and if you break your well you have to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with California’s Monterey Shale slated as the next stop in the country's recent shale drilling boom, the Brown administration has begun the process of writing new rules specifically addressing fracking. Environmental groups have long been skeptical of the Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division. “This is an agency that has had a cozy relationship with the oil industry for nearly 100 years,” said Bill Allayaud of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That skepticism is the motivation behind SB 4. Pavley said she was worried that without legislative guidance, the division’s regulations would be weak and ineffective. The bill would tell the division what parts of fracking to regulate. “We have continued to push them,” Pavley said. “The regulations are getting better, but they’re still too weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Road Ahead For SB 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Senate earlier this summer, and will soon go before the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Negotiations continue. Pavley and environmental groups want to require a separate permit for fracking, acidizing and other well completion techniques. That’s in addition to the paperwork drillers already file before constructing a well. The Brown administration’s proposed amendments remove this language and replace it with a requirement for drillers to simply “provide notice” before beginning fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley’s bill would make California the strictest state in the country when it comes to forcing drillers to justify trade secret claims that keep specific fracking chemicals from being posted on public websites. SB 4 would require drillers to explain who else knows about the chemical in question, how much that proprietary information is worth to them and how easily it could be duplicated by other companies. The governor’s proposed amendments strip away that language. Instead, drillers would simply designate certain chemicals as trade secrets. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The next four weeks will determine how aggressively California regulates the controversial oil-drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing. And as state Sen. Fran Pavley points out, “four weeks is a long time, legislatively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105246\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-105246\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/drillingrig-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"drillingrig\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A natural gas-drilling rig in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation. (Scott Detrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The energy industry is watching these developments closely and with a degree of apprehension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, has spent the summer engaged in negotiations with the governor’s office, energy industry and environmental groups. She’s the prime sponsor of SB 4, a bill that would tighten how California regulates hydraulic fracturing and how much public information drillers would have to provide about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the bill moves toward an Assembly vote, Pavley and the Brown administration appear to be moving toward a consensus on a key provision that the drilling industry opposes: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/california_fracking_bill\">applying aspects of the new regulations to a technique called “acidizing,”\u003c/a> in addition to fracking.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there are similarities we ought to make sure the (state’s new) regulations cover it,” said Jason Marshall, the chief deputy director of \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/california-prepares-first-fracking-regulations-joining-nationwide-debate/\">the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling\u003c/a>. The fracking regulations the Department of Conservation\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/03/22/118219/california_debates_how_to_regulate_fracking?category=science\"> has spent the year drafting\u003c/a> – and that Pavley’s bill aims to strengthen – require drillers to tell the state what chemicals they mix into the water that’s used to blast apart shale rock deep underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division treats them as one aspect of the broader drilling process, which it permits and regulates. The state enforces standards regulating the thickness and quality of the pipes and cement that keep oil, gas, fracking fluid and any other substance inside a well, and out of the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same rules apply to fracking and acidizing as any other aspect of the drilling process, said Marshall. “You don’t get to break your well, and if you break your well you have to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with California’s Monterey Shale slated as the next stop in the country's recent shale drilling boom, the Brown administration has begun the process of writing new rules specifically addressing fracking. Environmental groups have long been skeptical of the Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division. “This is an agency that has had a cozy relationship with the oil industry for nearly 100 years,” said Bill Allayaud of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That skepticism is the motivation behind SB 4. Pavley said she was worried that without legislative guidance, the division’s regulations would be weak and ineffective. The bill would tell the division what parts of fracking to regulate. “We have continued to push them,” Pavley said. “The regulations are getting better, but they’re still too weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Road Ahead For SB 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Senate earlier this summer, and will soon go before the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Negotiations continue. Pavley and environmental groups want to require a separate permit for fracking, acidizing and other well completion techniques. 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Now environmental consciousness is part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">new ranking from Sierra magazine\u003c/a> lists some of the greenest of them all, and you might not be surprised to see several California schools ranked highly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-irvine-3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">3\u003c/a>), UC Davis (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-davis-4.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">4\u003c/a>), Stanford (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-stanford-university-7.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">7\u003c/a>) and UC Santa Barbara (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-santa-barbara-10.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">10\u003c/a>) are all top-10 colleges on the magazine’s environmental list, which takes into account factors like where a school gets its power, how environmentalism is incorporated into the curriculum and what kind of food is served in the dining halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gives California schools an edge in the rankings? It’s something in the ethos of the state, says Avital Andrews, Sierra magazine’s lifestyle editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(California schools) really pay attention to their water use and their energy use,\" she says. \"It’s easier to get outside here in the winter, so schools encourage students to get outdoors at all times of the year and farm the campus farms or do trash pickups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some highlights from each school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Irvine:\u003c/strong> Of all the California schools, Irvine was at the top, coming in third nationally. The university has saved 20 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year since 2009 through the use of a co-generation facility and other energy-preserving projects. It also has a 16-acre botanical garden, and Meatless Mondays are strongly encouraged.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Davis:\u003c/strong> An agricultural education powerhouse, the research done at UC Davis helps shape national and statewide water laws. The school is considered a leader on best practices in farming. It's also home to America’s biggest zero-net-energy community, where students and faculty can live. An action plan on cutting emissions to levels below year 2000 is also in effect.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford:\u003c/strong> The school has raised more than $430 million for the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability, and a big chunk of that money will go toward a new energy facility that will cut its carbon emissions in half. Water use has already been cut by 20 percent. There are more than 700 sustainability-related classes, and a student is unlikely to graduate without having taken at least one course that touches on ecoliteracy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Santa Barbara:\u003c/strong> UCSB has 44 LEED-certified buildings. Forty-seven percent of its academic departments offer a class on sustainability, totaling about 300. Half of the food served at dining halls is local. Seventy-five percent of waste gets diverted from the landfill through recycling and composting. And biking is huge. Ninety-four percent of students take alternative means of transit to class.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magazine also focused this year on the impact environmentally-friendly polices have on students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who graduate do end up recycling, composting, growing their own vegetables, doing the things that they saw happen around them at college,” says Andrews. “To them, it’s just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though more and more schools are taking green measures, Andrews notes that there is still plenty of room for growth. 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The fledgling has embarked on intensive hunting forays, even \"mugging\" a house sparrow and competing with his parents, beak-to-beak, for insects and worms — food he delivered to his younger brother and two sisters in the nest. (Elaine Miller Bond / \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106202\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/PhotoWeek130809feedingfrenz.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130809feedingfrenz\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nSeabirds gathered by the thousands at Ocean Beach Sunday afternoon, Aug. 4, to feast on a school of small fish in an extraordinary \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2013/08/04/thousands-of-seabirds-gather-for-ocean-beach-feeding-frenzy/\">near-shore feeding frenzy\u003c/a> that lasted for hours. Pelicans, terns, gulls and cormorants were among the birds all diving for the 4- or 5-inch fish so close to shore that the water was sometimes only a few inches deep. (Tom Prete / \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/07/berkeley-street-parties-celebrate-neighborhood-safety/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106177\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/PhotoWeek130809NightOut.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130809NightOut\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMore than 50 Berkeley neighborhood and business groups came out Tuesday night to meet, mingle, eat together and get to know each other during the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/07/berkeley-street-parties-celebrate-neighborhood-safety/\">30th annual National Night Out\u003c/a> celebration. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Julia Hannafin, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the East Bay Green Corridor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sungevity.com/\">Sungevity Inc\u003c/a>., and the state Office of Economic Development met at Sungevity’s Oakland offices to announce a new set of permitting guidelines that will be used in all the cities in the corridor: Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville, Alameda, Albany, El Cerrito, Hayward and San Leandro. The new streamlined permits, scheduled to take effect by Sept. 22, will also eliminate the need to hire an expensive structural engineer, which will save time and money and boost the solar industry, advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106210\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106210 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/solar.jpg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"solar.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Area rooftop solar array (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What these guidelines do is allow homeowners to bypass the expensive structural engineering process,” said Carla Din, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://ebgreencorridor.org/\">East Bay Green Corridor\u003c/a>. “When you put a system on your roof, there’s sometimes uncertainty about whether or not your rafters can support the modules, and so you bring in an outside structural solar engineer. 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Solar support components manufacturers are only responsible for the array on the roof, not for the ability of the roof to support it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-103197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/Berkeleyside-logo-small.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeleyside-logo-small\" width=\"225\" height=\"51\">\u003c/a>In late 2010, under the leadership of Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, mayors of the nine cities got together with the director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the chancellors of UC Berkeley and Cal State East Bay, and identified standardized solar permitting as their No.1 policy priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to create the streamlined solar permitting process was highly collaborative, requiring participation from both those on the structural side and those on the bureaucratic side of the process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Anna Vignet, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hundreds of activists on hand Saturday at Chevron’s Richmond refinery to protest its contribution to global warming might be surprised to learn that California says it has found a way to control the company’s carbon footprint within the state, despite its plans to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106007\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/SFPublicPress1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/SFPublicPress1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,000 protesters marched through Richmond to the gates of the Chevron refinery on Saturday. Richmond police arrested 209. 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Yet the expansion would not contribute to global warming, state regulators said, because a new statewide cap on total industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases requires the company to neutralize any increases by buying pollution rights from other companies planning to cut their own emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron acknowledged in a permit application to state regulators that new equipment at its sprawling Richmond facility, if run at full capacity, would increase its greenhouse gas emissions, though it did not provide any numbers in the application. The new plant can process higher-sulfur crude oil, a particularly energy-intensive activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists with \u003ca href=\"http://350bayarea.org\" target=\"_blank\">350 Bay Area\u003c/a> and other groups demonstrated against Chevron in reaction to the expansion, to mark the one-year anniversary of a major industrial accident in which an explosion and fire led to the release of an enormous plume of toxic fumes that frightened thousands and sent residents to area hospitals complaining of breathing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “peaceful civil disobedience” at the facility’s main gate led to more than 200 arrests. Activists said the government should do more to limit the expansion of refinery capacity and instead encourage the adoption of cleaner and renewable fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “350” movement gets its name from climate scientists’ warning that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations beyond 350 parts per million will cause widespread environmental damage. This year the level surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in recorded history. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizers also used the protest to highlight an imminent decision by the Obama administration on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/sfpublicpress-300x89.gif\" alt=\"sfpublicpress\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\">\u003c/a>Beyond the climate effects, said lead organizer Bill McKibben, Chevron should reduce its reliance on the dirtiest fuel stocks at its Richmond facility, which lead to local air pollutants such as soot and could increase the chances of industrial accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regulators at the California Air Resources Board say the state’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, which started last fall, will use market forces to reduce carbon emissions. Any company wishing to pollute more than its share must buy credits on a new cap-and-trade marketplace launched in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Clegern, a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, said that if emissions from refining dirtier crude oil at the Richmond Chevron facility were to rise, the change would need to be reported only after construction was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want them to estimate,” Clegern said. “We want them to tell us what they’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chevron conceded that its ability to emit more greenhouse gases would increase with the expanded facility, it stressed that the new equipment would be more efficient, reducing emissions “per unit volume” of production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility will have the ability to process crude oil with a sulfur content of up to 3 percent. That is nearly double the 1.7 percent average sulfur content of the oil currently processed in Richmond, and that is already a high percentage by industry standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning that oil is an emissions-intensive process in which the oil coming into the factory must be heated and pumped through a hydrogen plant to break it down into its chemical components and remove contaminants such as sulfur. The company says it is seeking to broaden its capabilities to stay competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106008\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/sfpublicpress2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106008 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/sfpublicpress2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"An industrial accident led to a fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. on Aug. 6, 2012. (Stephen Shiller/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An industrial accident led to a fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 6, 2012. (Stephen Shiller/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is Chevron’s second attempt at pushing through construction of the new equipment. Contra Costa County Superior Court found in 2009 that the refinery’s 2005 permit application was riddled with inconsistencies in its description of what kind of oil the new equipment would be able to refine. The judge also rejected the refinery’s proposal to wait a year after completion to measure emissions and then plan how to reduce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Chevron touted its community commitment by announcing that it would use local labor, hiring 1,000 workers to construct the new plant. With the equipment upgrade already 50 percent complete at the time of the court decision, Chevron filed a more complete permit application in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, the company said the new plant would be approximately 15 percent more energy efficient than the existing one “on an emission basis per unit volume of hydrogen product.” But the permit application also explains that it will have additional capacity, which at maximum production will generate “more Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions than the existing Hydrogen Plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if public statements are any indication, the company must also be betting on cap-and-trade providing a way to make its effect on climate change balance out. Melissa Ritchie, a spokeswoman for the Richmond Chevron refinery, told the East Bay Express that the equipment upgrade would have zero net greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the company by the Public Press were not returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron must comply with California’s cap-and-trade legislation, which forces facilities to account for their pollution either by buying allowances to pollute or buying “offsets” offered by other companies on a registry of environmental projects, which could be in other states or countries. Those projects must document a net greenhouse gas reduction, though they do nothing to protect residents of California communities near pollution sites from toxic local toxic effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because 90 percent of a petroleum refinery’s allocations are given for free, the refinery must account for just 10 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions through the extra expenditures. But the formula for how many metric tons of carbon dioxide a facility gets credit for involves some complex calculations that try to estimate not only the actual output but also a baseline for efficient operation for each industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities for a Better Environment, one of the environmental groups that filed suit against Chevron in 2009 over its construction plans, has for years kept tabs on the refinery’s construction plans and possible environmental effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Soto, a community organizer for the group, has spent his whole life in Richmond, and has seen many neighbors suffer from respiratory problems. He said the health and safety of residents and workers will be even more at risk of accidents if the construction project resumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a long history of abnormally high rates of cancers as well as asthma and other autoimmune diseases along the refinery corridor,” Soto said. “Dirtier crude is also more corrosive in piping systems and has more polluting byproducts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Karras, a senior scientist for Communities for a Better Environment, studies the emissions effect of processing dirtier crude. His research found that the type of oil a refinery processes is the main factor in facilities’ emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karras wrote in an email that “switching to fundamentally different, lower quality oil is the worst thing a refinery like Chevron’s in Richmond could do for our environmental health and safety.” He mentioned two damaging effects that could result from heavier crude: more heavily toxic emissions that wouldn’t be mitigated locally and the increased risk of explosions from corrosive pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Processing dirtier crude could double or triple refinery greenhouse gas emissions of toxic and smog-forming pollutants for burning more fuel,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miya Yoshitani, associate director of the Oakland-based Asian Pacific Environmental Network, said her group wanted Chevron to fix corrosion problems in the entire refinery, not just the unit that sent thousands to the hospital. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Anna Vignet, \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hundreds of activists on hand Saturday at Chevron’s Richmond refinery to protest its contribution to global warming might be surprised to learn that California says it has found a way to control the company’s carbon footprint within the state, despite its plans to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106007\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/SFPublicPress1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106007\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/SFPublicPress1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"More than 1,000 protesters marched through Richmond to the gates of the Chevron refinery on Saturday. Richmond police arrested 209. (Anna Vignet/SF Public Press)\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 1,000 protesters marched through Richmond to the gates of the Chevron refinery on Saturday. Richmond police arrested 209. (Anna Vignet/SF Public Press)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The refinery, occupying a large swath of San Francisco Bay west of the Carquinez Strait, has received permits to build out extra capacity to refine low-grade crude oil. Yet the expansion would not contribute to global warming, state regulators said, because a new statewide cap on total industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases requires the company to neutralize any increases by buying pollution rights from other companies planning to cut their own emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron acknowledged in a permit application to state regulators that new equipment at its sprawling Richmond facility, if run at full capacity, would increase its greenhouse gas emissions, though it did not provide any numbers in the application. The new plant can process higher-sulfur crude oil, a particularly energy-intensive activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental activists with \u003ca href=\"http://350bayarea.org\" target=\"_blank\">350 Bay Area\u003c/a> and other groups demonstrated against Chevron in reaction to the expansion, to mark the one-year anniversary of a major industrial accident in which an explosion and fire led to the release of an enormous plume of toxic fumes that frightened thousands and sent residents to area hospitals complaining of breathing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “peaceful civil disobedience” at the facility’s main gate led to more than 200 arrests. Activists said the government should do more to limit the expansion of refinery capacity and instead encourage the adoption of cleaner and renewable fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “350” movement gets its name from climate scientists’ warning that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations beyond 350 parts per million will cause widespread environmental damage. This year the level surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in recorded history. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizers also used the protest to highlight an imminent decision by the Obama administration on the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/sfpublicpress-300x89.gif\" alt=\"sfpublicpress\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\">\u003c/a>Beyond the climate effects, said lead organizer Bill McKibben, Chevron should reduce its reliance on the dirtiest fuel stocks at its Richmond facility, which lead to local air pollutants such as soot and could increase the chances of industrial accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regulators at the California Air Resources Board say the state’s greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, which started last fall, will use market forces to reduce carbon emissions. Any company wishing to pollute more than its share must buy credits on a new cap-and-trade marketplace launched in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Clegern, a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, said that if emissions from refining dirtier crude oil at the Richmond Chevron facility were to rise, the change would need to be reported only after construction was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want them to estimate,” Clegern said. “We want them to tell us what they’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Chevron conceded that its ability to emit more greenhouse gases would increase with the expanded facility, it stressed that the new equipment would be more efficient, reducing emissions “per unit volume” of production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility will have the ability to process crude oil with a sulfur content of up to 3 percent. That is nearly double the 1.7 percent average sulfur content of the oil currently processed in Richmond, and that is already a high percentage by industry standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleaning that oil is an emissions-intensive process in which the oil coming into the factory must be heated and pumped through a hydrogen plant to break it down into its chemical components and remove contaminants such as sulfur. The company says it is seeking to broaden its capabilities to stay competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_106008\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/sfpublicpress2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-106008 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/sfpublicpress2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"An industrial accident led to a fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. on Aug. 6, 2012. (Stephen Shiller/Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An industrial accident led to a fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif., on Aug. 6, 2012. (Stephen Shiller/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is Chevron’s second attempt at pushing through construction of the new equipment. Contra Costa County Superior Court found in 2009 that the refinery’s 2005 permit application was riddled with inconsistencies in its description of what kind of oil the new equipment would be able to refine. The judge also rejected the refinery’s proposal to wait a year after completion to measure emissions and then plan how to reduce them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Chevron touted its community commitment by announcing that it would use local labor, hiring 1,000 workers to construct the new plant. With the equipment upgrade already 50 percent complete at the time of the court decision, Chevron filed a more complete permit application in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, the company said the new plant would be approximately 15 percent more energy efficient than the existing one “on an emission basis per unit volume of hydrogen product.” But the permit application also explains that it will have additional capacity, which at maximum production will generate “more Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions than the existing Hydrogen Plant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if public statements are any indication, the company must also be betting on cap-and-trade providing a way to make its effect on climate change balance out. Melissa Ritchie, a spokeswoman for the Richmond Chevron refinery, told the East Bay Express that the equipment upgrade would have zero net greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to the company by the Public Press were not returned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron must comply with California’s cap-and-trade legislation, which forces facilities to account for their pollution either by buying allowances to pollute or buying “offsets” offered by other companies on a registry of environmental projects, which could be in other states or countries. Those projects must document a net greenhouse gas reduction, though they do nothing to protect residents of California communities near pollution sites from toxic local toxic effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because 90 percent of a petroleum refinery’s allocations are given for free, the refinery must account for just 10 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions through the extra expenditures. But the formula for how many metric tons of carbon dioxide a facility gets credit for involves some complex calculations that try to estimate not only the actual output but also a baseline for efficient operation for each industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities for a Better Environment, one of the environmental groups that filed suit against Chevron in 2009 over its construction plans, has for years kept tabs on the refinery’s construction plans and possible environmental effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Soto, a community organizer for the group, has spent his whole life in Richmond, and has seen many neighbors suffer from respiratory problems. 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