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As a result, California has some of the oldest buses in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The emissions from older school buses are harmful to both children and air quality for the broader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children riding in conventional diesel school buses are exposed to more air pollution than those riding in cleaner natural gas or low emission diesel buses, according to a 2003 \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/schoolbus/schoolbus.htm\">study\u003c/a> conducted by the California Air Resources Board.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buses manufactured before 1990 can pollute as much as six times more than new buses, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. There are about 3,000 buses in the state built in the 1980s and earlier, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/aging-polluting-school-buses-remain-calif-roads-17964#database\">California Watch analysis\u003c/a>of data maintained by the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some buses have been equipped with filters that greatly reduce the harmful health effects, but buses\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>that are more than two decades old often can’t be retrofitted because the pollutants clog the filters or the engine. The CHP data doesn’t indicate which buses – with a combined capacity to carry about 190,000 students each day – have been modified.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newer buses also have additional safety features such as seat belts and additional emergency exits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Education referred a request for comment to the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a new state \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onrdiesel/documents/fsschoolbus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regulation\u003c/a> that’s currently being phased in, the California Air Resources Board is requiring districts to add filters that trap harmful pollutants to all buses or take them off the road by 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the regulatory changes has been to protect children’s health, said Lisa Jennings, an air pollution specialist at the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the retrofits can help reduce emissions, some critics argue that they’re a costly, short-term solution. 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The district\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>is in the Central Valley, where air quality is ranked among the worst in the nation. John Clements, director of transportation, has made it his mission to upgrade his school bus fleet and said he’s brought in about $10 million in grant money since 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the ’60s and ’70s, districts had budgeted school bus replacement programs,” he said. “That’s not the case under our stiffer fiscal situations. It would be rare to find one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he’s tried putting filters on his buses, he said they can make the buses less reliable. “I can’t send them on field trips outside the district because I run the risk of them plugging up and the light turning on, which means the bus can actually shut down,” Clements said. He prefers to replace the buses when he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An average filter costs about $17,900, while a new bus can cost about $150,000. 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The monitors are designed to detect chemicals such as metals, volatile organic compounds, hydrogen sulfide and a range of particulates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay said Chevron has yet to produce a detailed plan for the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t received a comprehensive work plan from Chevron on who is going to monitor it, the specific locations for the monitors, how the data would be reported and the specific technology they will use,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said he now regrets not including a deadline for Chevron in the 2010 agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there was no installation schedule as part of the 2-year-old agreement, Comey, the Chevron spokesman, said the company has been working with neighborhood groups to put a set timeline in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey said neighborhood groups in Point Richmond and Atchison Village approved a timetable that calls for the equipment to be installed in early 2013. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72562\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72562\" title=\"Chevron fire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke poured from Chevron's Richmond refinery on Aug. 6 (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It could have been worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what the \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-refinery-fire-chevron-probe-idUSBRE87K05L20120821\">chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board is saying\u003c/a> about the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/06/chevron-refinery-fire-shelter-in-place-for-richmond-north-richmond-and-san-pablo-residents/\">Aug. 6 Chevron refinery blaze in Richmond\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/14/health-officials-now-say-a-few-people-may-have-been-admitted-to-hospitals-due-to-chevron-fire/\">sent thousands to the hospital complaining of flame-related ailments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As reported by \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8780660\">ABC 7\u003c/a>, the chairman of the safety board toured the fire site Monday and noted that there were no deaths:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We are extremely pleased that there hasn't been any loss of life here, but still, I think that it behooves us to really look at this as a close call and that we need to look and try to prevent things that could have been starting early with a bigger impact to the community than we saw in this particular fire,\" said chairman of the CSB Rafael Moure-Eraso, Ph.D.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The board is among the federal and state investigators looking into the cause of the fire, and on Monday it also released photos of the site and a white cloud that was emitted from the refinery before the blaze. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-refinery-fire-chevron-probe-idUSBRE87K05L20120821\">Reuters\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The CSB has said the vapor cloud enveloped about 20 workers at the refinery before the fire erupted on the 245,000 barrel per day refinery's sole crude distillation unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron, in a statement issued following the CSB news conference, said the vapor cloud may not have led to the blaze, but been a by-product of fire-fighting efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is premature to comment on the composition of the white cloud,\" Chevron spokeswoman Melissa Ritchie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The board's investigation has faced some criticism recently. On Friday the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chevron-probe-produces-Facebook-grousing-3797458.php#ixzz24CTJvioM\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that Clyde Trombettas, who is district director for the state's refinery safety program in Northern California and the lead state investigator in the blaze, posted comments on Facebook accusing the chemical safety board of bias and grandstanding. The Chronicle's story includes a \u003ca href=\"http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/14/57/71/3341911/3/628x471.jpg\">photo of a Facebook post\u003c/a> in which Trombettas writes, \"Typical CSB grandstanding in the press. Scaring the public with half truths and misleading information.\" The board wouldn't comment on the post, the Chronicle reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the photos released by the board; you can find others at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csb.gov/newsroom/detail.aspx?nid=437\">chemical safety board website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Vapor.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-73759\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Vapor-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released this photo of a white vapor cloud above the Chevron refinery in Richmond, caught fire. Photo by Fototaker.net\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released this photo of a white vapor cloud above the Chevron refinery in Richmond, caught fire. Photo by Fototaker.net\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron_Vapor_Cloud_011.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-73760\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron_Vapor_Cloud_011-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released this photo of a white vapor cloud obscured by smoke above the Chevron refinery in Richmond, which was on fire. 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So is pollution simply the price we have to pay for our favorite mode of locomotion -- a price that the market has already figured into Richmond real estate values?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72562\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72562\" title=\"Chevron fire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Chevron-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke poured from Chevron's Richmond refinery on Monday (Aarti Shahani/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents don't think so. \"It was frightening for my family to watch the huge black plume of smoke fill the sky, and to hear the 'shelter in place' warning horns throughout the evening...\" resident Kay Wallis told us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The oil giant makes billions in profits by refining oil, but repeatedly sues our local government to reduce its corporate property taxes. 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But he admits that's going to take a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the meantime, a lot of other improvements are possible, he says. He points out that a fire broke out at the refinery in 2007 -- apparently in the same place, the crude oil processing unit. “Refineries don’t burn down the crude unit every five years. That is not normal for a refinery,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Forum, Heather Kulp, a Chevron spokesperson apologized for the fire. \"We're continually striving to improve our operational processes to minimize these incidents,\" she said. \"And we are effectively working with our regulatory agencies to make sure we put into process and into place all those procedures we need to make sure these types of things don't happen in the future.\" But she didn't offer any specifics on measures the refinery is taking to prevent such crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Karras points out that fires are only one source of pollution from the refinery. 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We will also see to it that communities will be reimbursed for the costs they face for emergency personnel who responded to last night’s incident. If you wish to file a claim please call 866-260-7881.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the company would have more answers in the evening at at a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChevronRichmond/status/232718354849345537\">community meeting\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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