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(Josh Cassidy/KQED) \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Friday July 11: \u003c/strong>The Richmond Planning Commission voted to allow Chevron to go ahead with a proposed $1 billion upgrade of its massive East Bay refinery — but with conditions the company says it has \"grave concerns\" about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In approving \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/chevron/Final+EIR/Volume+3_Final+EIR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the refinery project's environmental impact report\u003c/a> and sending it to the Richmond City Council for a final decision, the commission added three proposals from environmental justice activists. One condition would require stricter pollution emission standards, the second would require a more thorough upgrade of parts of the refinery that handle highly corrosive high-sulfur crude oil, and the third would require the company to participate in \"climate justice mitigation,\" reportedly including a clean-energy jobs program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Communities for a Better Environment, the group that put forward the conditions, said after Thursday night's vote that the Chevron EIR is still flawed. But in a statement, Greg Karras, senior scientist for the group, said: “Our vision is to build our long-term clean energy jobs future with the safest least emitting refinery that we can have while it’s still here. The victory tonight is a huge step towards reaching that goal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Planning Commission also selected an alternative operating scenario listed in the environmental impact report that would limit the scope of the refinery upgrade and its future operations. Under the chosen alternative, the facility would handle less high-sulfur crude oil than Chevron has suggested, and the expansion of a unit that processes the high-sulfur oil would be dropped from the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron officials said Friday they're studying the Planning Commission's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking into all those things, understanding what impacts those conditions have on our operation as well as the impacts on the community,\" Chevron spokeswoman Nicole Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says the revised project would result in a “newer, safer, cleaner refinery” that upgrades old equipment and brings 1,000 construction jobs to a community with 12 percent unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond City Council gets the final say on the project in hearings that begin July 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's safe to say that we'll be working with city staff and City Council members in preparation for the meeting,\" Barber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Thursday, July 10):\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after hearing from dozens of people about Chevron's $1 billion proposal to upgrade its refinery in Richmond, the city's Planning Commission \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/5956\" target=\"_blank\">is meeting again Thursday evening\u003c/a> to hear more comment. Then it's expected to vote on whether to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/chevron/Final+EIR/Volume+3_Final+EIR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2,500-page environmental impact report\u003c/a> and grant a permit to allow the project to go ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 130 people signed up to speak at Wednesday night's meeting at the John F. Kennedy High School cafeteria — both supporters of the company's refinery plan and critics who say the plan doesn't adequately address pollution and public health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last night's meeting, Chevron employees passed out hundreds of blue-and-white T-shirts that said, \"A modernized refinery. Another reason to be Richmond proud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that the modernization project reflects a win-win-win,\" Chevron Richmond Refinery spokeswoman Nicole Barber said. \"A win for Chevron, a win for our workforce and win for the community.\" The company says the project will create 1,000 construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barber said the plan includes $30 million to mitigate greenhouse gases in Richmond, which, along with cap and trade credits, would result in no net increase of greenhouse gases. And Richmond wouldn't see any increase in toxic air particles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Richmond residents say that doesn't go far enough and continue to push for changes in the project to restrict the amount of higher-sulfur crude oil the refinery will handle, and thus reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other harmful pollutants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The baseline that they're using is already lethal to our community,\" said Andrés Soto, an organizer with Richmond Communities for a Better Environment. \"We want to see actual reductions over time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond mayoral candidate Mike Parker told the Planning Commission that there is broad agreement that upgrades to the refinery should go forward. But Parker says there's room to improve Chevron's proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Richmond has dangerous air quality and high cancer rates and is designated as an impacted community,\" Parker said. \"This is a chance to do something about that. Modernization should mean a reduction of toxic air contaminants, period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EIR includes a legally required \"environmentally superior alternative\" to the company's proposal. The alternative would reduce the amount of high-sulfur crude to be processed at the facility, as community activists want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Hernandez, an attorney retained by the city to work on the environmental impact report, said adopting the alternative would decrease pollutants, both greenhouse gas emissions and toxic particles, compared with Chevron's preferred plan. But either way, she said the plant would become much safer with the upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are getting a safer refinery from this project,\" she said. \"There are 17 piping circuits in the crude unit that are being replaced with higher-caliber metal. There are lots more sensors. There are lots more inspection programs. 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(Stephen Schiller/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Stephen Schiller/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal chemical regulators investigating the 2012 Chevron Richmond fire are putting off action on refinery safety after an apparent split on how strict new regulations should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a packed meeting Wednesday night in Richmond, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csb.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Chemical Safety Board\u003c/a> voted to defer for 120 days action on a staff report on the August 2012 Chevron fire. The report calls on California regulators to adopt a stricter, more proactive approach to regulating oil refineries similar to the system used in many European countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach is known as a \"safety case\" regime, in which technically competent regulatory personnel would evaluate refinery safety plans, then audit and inspect facilities to make sure operators were implementing the plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommends requiring refineries to bring regulators in to oversee work that's deemed hazardous and to take steps to ensure that refinery workers can report unsafe practices without fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, CSB investigators said, a \"safety case\" model requires oil refineries to use inherently safer materials and equipment — one of Chevron's major failures leading up to the 2012 blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We have a refinery safety problem in the U.S. The current regulatory system is clearly not working.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>— Rafael Moure-Eraso\u003cbr>\nChemical Safety Board chair\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>About 100 community residents attended the meeting in the Richmond City Council chambers, along with members of environmental groups and oil industry representatives. A handful of people carried signs calling on the board to adopt the staff report with its strict safety recommendations, and some community members told the board that it's time for action to make Chevron's Richmond operation safer and cleaner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Gray White told the board she was among the 15,000 East Bay residents who sought hospital treatment after the refinery fire sent a thick plume of black smoke across much of western and northern Contra Costa County. \"Breathing air full of toxic chemicals has drastically reduced our quality of life,\" White told the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five-hour meeting heard a summary of the staff report. It echoes the board's preliminary findings, which blamed the fire on Chevron's repeated failure to follow advice from its own safety experts and install a safer type of steel in key parts of the refinery. High sulphur content in crude oil processed at the refinery caused older pipes to thin, then rupture, sparking the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24922078/richmond-federal-board-at-odds-over-recommendations-stemming\" target=\"_blank\">As the Contra Costa Times' Robert Rogers reports\u003c/a>, sign before the meeting suggested the board would adopt the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday's meeting, Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso was firm in his belief that the safety case regime was the right approach. 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Among the changes made at the 245,000-barrels-per-day refinery are expanded testing to detect thinning pipes, new leak-response protocols and increasing employee training, according to the 11-page report. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22468798/turn-appeals-puc-decision-raise-pg-e-natural\">Watchdog appeals PUC decision to raise PG&E natural gas rates\u003c/a> (Contra Costa Times)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A consumer watchdog group filed an appeal Monday that seeks to reverse a state commission's decision in December that will let Pacific Gas & Electric raise rates to help finance the company's upgrades of its natural gas system. 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San Jose is the last of six governmental agencies in Santa Clara County to take up the Habitat Conservation Plan, an attempt to balance conservation and construction over five decades. If approved, the plan would affect 506,000 acres, almost 60 percent of the county, and raise $665 million, mostly from developer fees, government agencies, state and federal grants and private donations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Gay-couples-left-out-of-immigration-plan-4230776.php\">Gay couples left out of immigration plan\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Latino and business groups applauded a sweeping immigration overhaul proposed Monday by eight Democratic and Republican senators, but its omission of binational same-sex couples alarmed activists who fear those couples could be used as a bargaining chip to woo GOP votes for legislation later this year. The framework calls for providing a path to citizenship for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants; tougher border enforcement, including the use of drones; and an entry-exit system to track foreigners who overstay their visas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/oakland-crime-shows-city-losing-in-california-rebound.html\">Oakland Crime Shows City Losing in California Rebound\u003c/a> (Bloomberg)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland, California, officials worry that a surge in crime will cost the city employers even as the state begins to shake off the worst recession since the Great Depression. The city of about 396,000 has hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to boost crime-fighting in a community where census data show 1-in-5 residents live in poverty, while 8 percent of owner-occupied homes are valued at $1 million or more.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22467303/apple-retains-its-title-most-valuable-company-after\">Apple regains its title of most valuable company after just one day\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Apple abdicated its throne of most valuable company in the United States to Exxon Mobil for all of one day, as the tech giant's stock rebounded Monday to take the title back from the largest American oil company. The Cupertino company's stock rebounded Monday, however, gaining 2.3 percent to close at $449.83, giving it a market cap -- the total value of all shares in a company -- of $422.4 billion. Exxon dropped 0.7 percent on the day to close at $91.11, giving it a market cap of $415.4 billion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/PG-E-grants-reprieve-to-Oakland-s-gnomes-4230428.php\">PG&E grants reprieve to Oakland's gnomes\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There was joy Monday in Middle Earth, and Oakland, too: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officials have changed their minds and will not evict thousands of gnomes nestling on their utility poles. The reprieve came shortly after the utility announced it would remove the diminutive, hand-painted creatures that have been proliferating around Lake Merritt for six months on the grounds they were \"compromising\" utility equipment. \"We received a great deal of public feedback, so we're declaring the poles gnome-man's land. We're not going to remove them,\" PG&E spokesman Jason King said. \"We're committed to working with the artist, the city and the community to find a peaceful resolution.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_22469527/summit-fire-prosecutors-drop-most-serious-charge-against\">Summit fire: Prosecutors drop most serious charge against defendant on brink of trial\u003c/a> (SJ Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> After throwing the book at a private contractor accused of accidentally causing the massive 2008 Summit wildfire, Santa Clara County prosecutors Monday abruptly dropped the most serious charge against the defendant on the brink of trial. Prosecutors said they weren't confident they could prove a felony reckless-burning charge against contractor Channing Verden. 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