, November 23, 2024
Mar 24, 2022
The bulk of the settlement stemmed from a May 2017 incident when a power outage sent black plumes of smoke into the air and thousands of pounds of toxic gas...
Mar 15, 2022
Valero released more than 10,000 tons of excess hydrocarbons over 16 years....
Mar 04, 2022
San Francisco Baykeeper alleges that port operator Amports has attempted to conceal its conduct by operating at night to prevent anyone from seeing discharges....
Feb 16, 2022
The council voted 4-1, with Vice Mayor Tom Campbell opposed, following several hours of debate from council members and the general public....
Feb 15, 2022
The refinery dumped $200,000 into its Working Families for a Strong Benicia PAC last December....
Feb 11, 2022
The council will decide whether to add additional metrics that must be met before the mandate can be lifted, keep the mandate as is, or move to rescind it....
Feb 11, 2022
The shirts were handed out to fifth grade students graduating from the program at Robert Semple Elementary School....
Feb 07, 2022
Pratt said he did not believe the Three Percenter symbols represented anti-government views....
Jan 31, 2022
Erik Upson was made interim city manager in September 2020....
Jan 25, 2022
The air district called the action “a major shift in the handling of enforcement cases” against the Valero refinery....
Nov 18, 2021
The settlement does not include 17 notices of violations the air district sent to Valero for an incident in May 2017 when a power outage sent toxic chemicals into the air....
Nov 17, 2021
The community group Benicia Black Lives Matter, which formed as the country erupted in protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, was the driving force in the reforms....
