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RICHMOND — Flaring at the Chevron refinery produced large flames that lit up the Saturday evening sky above Richmond, but no significant air impacts were detected, according to the company and ...
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin speaks to the media during a press conference about the City of Richmond's lawsuit against Chevron after a fire broke out in their refinery last year in Richmond ...
RICHMOND — Efforts continued Wednesday to clean up an oil spill at the Chevron refinery here that sent at least 100 gallons of petroleum product into San Francisco Bay waters on Tuesday evening.
RICHMOND — More than a dozen workers were nearly killed when the vapor cloud that sparked Monday’s massive Chevron refinery fire engulfed them as they worked on a leaky, four-decades-old pipe ...
Chevron's refinery has been processing crude oil on a windy peninsula jutting into San Pablo Bay since 1902, three years before Richmond incorporated as a city.
"Chevron's initial response to contain the spill was pathetic," said Sejal Choksi-Chugh, the group's executive director. She said spills like Tuesday's "add life-threatening exposure to toxic ...
RICHMOND — Efforts continued Wednesday to clean up an oil spill at the Chevron refinery here that sent at least 100 gallons of petroleum product into San Francisco Bay waters on Tuesday evening ...
RICHMOND — An equipment issue at the Chevron refinery led to flaring, officials said Wednesday. In a post to the refinery’s Facebook account just before 10:40 a.m., a statement said any smoke ...
The Richmond refinery is also the state’s single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, having released 4.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2010 alone. Advertisement Built ...
Chevron's hydrogen plant is part of the refinery's modernization project, approved by the Richmond City Council in 2014, that is aimed at helping the facility refine higher-sulfur crude oil. Braden ...
More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in Richmond went on strike early Monday over safety concerns and to demand a salary increase to keep up with inflation and the area’s high cost ...
RICHMOND — Efforts continued Wednesday to clean up an oil spill at the Chevron refinery here that sent at least 100 gallons of petroleum product into San Francisco Bay waters on Tuesday evening ...