On June 19th, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 to direct the City Planning Department to research, analyze and draft Clean Up Green Up policy recommendations for Boyle Heights, Pacoima and Wilmington. Clean Up Green up will help create more green businesses, green spaces, and reduce the pollution harming the health of residents. Read more about this victory.

For the first time refinery workers and community groups have proposed a specific approach to preventing the potentially catastrophic impacts from increased emissions caused by refining “dirtier” grades of oil.  Read more.

Read our letter opposing AB 26.

Concerned public denied constitutional rights to challenge California Energy Commission permits. Read the press release.

City Council unanimously passed a 180-day extension for the Emergency Ordinance that requires any new crematoriums in Oakland to first, obtain a Major Conditional Use Permit. Click here to read more. Para Espanol has clique aqui.

CBE testifies on dirty crude versus inherently safer technology at landmark federal hearing on Chevron’s 2012 Richmond refinery fire.  Read Senior Scientist, Greg Karras’s testimony.  View the CSB’s animated video of last years refinery fire.

Read this San Francisco Chronicle article.

CBE and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) petitioned the Richmond Planning Commission today to declare parts of the Chevron Richmond refinery “dangerous building conditions”… Read this news release.  Read the petition to the Richmond Planning Commission.  Read the fact sheet about corrosion at the Richmond refinery.

Help bring more media attention to this story today by adding your comments in this LA Times article.

Read this fact sheet.