The skies over northern California have been filled with toxic smoke of one description or another this past year, from lithium-ion storage facilities to now an oil refinery fire that has just erupted this morning. I read a Xweet earlier that said the area was ‘snakebit,’ and you could certainly look at it that way....
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. On August 6, 2012, a corroded, eight-inch pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, cracked open, sending a white cloud hundreds of feet into the air. The cloud quickly engulfed the 19 refinery firefighters, managers...