'Slap on the Wrist': Chevron Settles Multiple Refinery Violations, Including One That Sent Odor to

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'Slap on the Wrist': Chevron Settles Multiple Refinery Violations, Including One That Sent Odor to SF


Chevron, one of the largest energy companies on the planet, has agreed to pay less than $150,000 to settle more than two dozen violations at its Richmond refinery over a two-year period.

The agreement with local air regulators includes one penalty, an odor nuisance, tied to an incident that sent toxic gas into the air that's believed to have traveled miles away to San Francisco.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Monday that Chevron settled 29 violations associated with the refinery between 2016 and 2018. Several violations stem from flaring operations, where typically there is some sort of problem at the refinery and the facility needs to send gas to its flares.

Twice in late December 2016, dozens of San Francisco residents complained of a rotten egg smell shortly after elevated concentrations of hydrogen sulfide were detected in Point Richmond, developments that were revealed by KQED in the days afterward.

Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11852923/slap-on-the-wrist-chevron-settles-multiple-refinery-violations-including-one-that-sent-odor-to-sf