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Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), Benicia CA, Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), Keeping Watch on Earth News, Stephen Golub, Valero Benicia Refinery

Before Dec. 19, Join the Movement to Hold Valero Accountable and Keep Benicians Safe and Healthy

A Crucial Dec. 19 City Council Meeting on an ISO to Protect Ourselves Against Valero’s Toxic Emissions and Potential Explosions By Stephen Golub, first published in the Benicia Herald on December 9, 2023 A Seat at the Table  Benicia is the only refinery town in the Bay Area that lacks an industrial safety ordinance (ISO), … Continue reading Before Dec. 19, Join the Movement to Hold Valero Accountable and Keep Benicians Safe and Healthy →

Benicia Black Lives Matter, Benicia CA, Benicia Public Library, Benicia Unified School District, Racism in America

Benicia marches for Ruby Bridges

School system honors Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to attend whites-only school in 1960 Vallejo Times-Herald, by Thomas Gase, November 14, 2023 In 1960 Ruby Bridges became the first African-American child to attend formerly Whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. Today — 63 years later … Continue reading Benicia marches for Ruby Bridges →

Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), Benicia CA, Benicia City Council Member Kari Birdseye, Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), Keeping Watch on Earth News, Stephen Golub, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vice-Mayor Terry Scott

For Our Kids, Our Older Adults and All of Us: A Benicia Industrial Safety and Health Ordinance

By Stephen Golub, first published in the Benicia Herald on November 10, 2023 At 4 a.m. on June 21, 2019, a series of massive fires and explosions at a Philadelphia refinery sent both large amounts of toxic chemicals and huge chunks of debris into the air. One 19-ton fragment landed across the Schuylkill River, 2,000 … Continue reading For Our Kids, Our Older Adults and All of Us: A Benicia Industrial Safety and Health Ordinance →

Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), Benicia CA, Benicia City Council Member Kari Birdseye, Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO), Keeping Watch on Earth News, Valero Benicia Refinery, Vice-Mayor Terry Scott

Moving Forward to Improve Benicia’s Industrial Safety and Health – An Open Letter to Benicia

On Sept 5, Benicia’s City Council unanimously initiated the first step of a process to assess the need to graduate the current Memo of Understanding (MOU) with Valero Benicia Refinery to an ordinance. This step, which asks staff review the MOU, underscores the importance of transition from an MOU to an ordinance that would provide … Continue reading Moving Forward to Improve Benicia’s Industrial Safety and Health – An Open Letter to Benicia →