Chevron Richmond Reaches Agreement with Air District on Pollution Monitoring

Chevron Richmond reaches agreement with air district on pollution monitoring

(BCN) -- The Bay Area Air District (BAAD) reached an agreement with Chevron on a new air pollution monitoring system at its Richmond refinery that will bring enhanced monitoring for hydrogen sulfide, a smelly and potentially dangerous gas previously not properly monitored according to the air district's standards. Chevron is the first of the five oil refineries in the nine-county BAAD to reach an agreement with the air district after all the ref…

California's Salton Sea Is Emitting Way More Toxic Gas Than We Thought

The beleaguered California lake is running low and might be poisoning nearby communities with toxic hydrogen sulfide gas.

California’s Salton Sea Is Emitting Way More Toxic Gas Than We Thought

California’s largest and most-polluted lake, the Salton Sea, is exuding hydrogen sulfide, a noxious gas, at rates that greatly exceed the state’s air quality standards. Alarmingly, a new study finds that California’s air quality monitoring systems may be severely underestimating how much toxic pollution is reaching people living near the lake. Hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs, is linked to a host of respiratory and neurological sy…