By Marilyn Bardet, December 12, 2023 At the Dec 19th’s council meeting, the mayor and city council members will be making a watershed decision in the two-step agenda process begun in September, whether to move to direct staff to prepare a model industrial safety ordinance for Benicia [“ISO”] for future consideration. I am urging a … Continue reading We’re asking City Council to take the “second step” toward adopting an ISO in Benicia. Here’s how you can help →
A Letter to the Editor by Vicki Dennis, December 11, 2023 Other writers before me have outlined the reasons why Benicia needs and deserves an Industrial Safety and Health Ordinance in place. I agree completely. For me, it is very simple and personal: I want to know that the air I am breathing in my … Continue reading How to write City Council TODAY to ask that they take the “second step” toward an ISO and a safer, healthier Benicia →
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 →
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 →
Posts navigation
For safe and healthy communities…
You must be logged in to post a comment.