Chevron required to use least-emitting safest refining technology, support community-based ‘Just Transition’ to sustainable energy.
Richmond, CA—Community organizing won a 7–0 Planning Commission vote to include cleaner, safer energy conditions in the land use permit for Chevron’s Richmond Refinery Modernization Project. The July 10, 2014 ‘clean safe jobs’ permit requires Chevron to upgrade old, unsafe technology that allows excessive air pollution and poses catastrophic chemical release hazards, and to support a community-based Clean Energy Jobs Program for climate protection at $8 million per year through 2050.
The permit protects communities and workers from environmental health and safety hazards and addresses flaws in the project’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR) by ensuring that the troubled plant moves decisively toward safer, least-emitting refining. Read more.